Is the masked priming same-different task a pure measure of prelexical processing?

PLoS One · 2013 · PMC3776839 · PMID 24058447

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just failed to reach significancep = .06so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Scrambled primes were faster than unrelated primes but this difference just failed to reach significance (2-tailed), F (1,23) = 4, p = .06, F 2 (1,78) = 3.72, p = .06.

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