Luo,Johnson,and Gallo (1998)tested Whether "Pseudohomophones" (E

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Luo,Johnson,and Gallo (1998) tested whether "pseudohomophones" (e.g. ,"brane") would show effects of semantic relatedness.In other words,would the letter string "brane" prime a related concept (e.g. ,neuron) ? They found that

• A)access to the mental lexicon was most probably direct.
• B)pseudohomophones primed only the actual word (e.g. ,"brain," in this example).
• C)pseudohomophones did not prime related concepts.
• D)pseudohomophones did prime related concepts.

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