It is widely assumed that subliminal word priming is case insensitive and that a short SOA (< 100 ms) is required to observe any effects. Here we attempted to replicate results from an influential study with the inclusion of a longer SOA to re-examine these assumptions. Participants performed a semantic categorisation task on visible word targets that were preceded either 64 or 192 ms by a subliminal prime. The prime and target were either the same or different word and could appear in the same or different case. We confirmed the presence of subliminal word priming (same word < different word reaction times). The word priming effect did not differ when case was the same or different, which supports case insensitive word priming. However, there was a general facilitation effect driven by case (same case < different case). Finally, there was a significant difference between the two SOA conditions; however, there were no interactions between SOA and any other factor, demonstrating that subliminal priming did not differ between short and long SOAs. The results demonstrate that word priming is case insensitive but that there is nevertheless an overall facilitation when words, regardless if they are repeated or not, are presented in the same case. This facilitation in case may reflect modularity in the low-level processing of the visual characteristics of words.

人们普遍认为，潜意识词启动是不区分大小写的，并且需要一个短的 SOA（< 100 ms）来观察任何效果。在这里，我们试图复制一项有影响力的研究的结果，其中包含更长的 SOA 以重新检查这些假设。参与者对可见词目标执行语义分类任务，这些目标在 64 或 192 毫秒之前是一个潜意识启动。主要和目标是相同或不同的词，可以出现在相同或不同的情况下。我们确认了潜意识词启动的存在（相同的词<不同的词反应时间）。单词启动效果在大小写相同或不同时没有差异，支持不区分大小写的单词启动。然而，有一个由案例驱动的普遍促进效应（相同案例<不同案例）。最后，两种 SOA 条件之间存在显着差异；然而，SOA 与任何其他因素之间没有相互作用，这表明阈下启动在短 SOA 和长 SOA 之间没有差异。结果表明，单词启动是不区分大小写的，但是当单词（无论它们是否重复）以相同的大小写呈现时，总体上会起到促进作用。这种便利可能反映了单词视觉特征的低级处理中的模块化。结果表明，单词启动是不区分大小写的，但是当单词（无论它们是否重复）以相同的大小写呈现时，总体上会起到促进作用。这种便利可能反映了单词视觉特征的低级处理中的模块化。结果表明，单词启动是不区分大小写的，但是当单词（无论它们是否重复）以相同的大小写呈现时，总体上会起到促进作用。这种便利可能反映了单词视觉特征的低级处理中的模块化。