Reprocessing Text: Indirect Measures of Word and Message Level Processes

In three experiments we examined word-and text-level transfer after different reading experiences. Experiment 1 showed that facilitation in the later perceptual identification of a word occurs when that word was originally read as part of a word set, but not when it was read as part of a meaningful text. Further, the word-to-word transfer effect exhibited the hallmarks of data-driven processing. Experiments 2 and 3 showed that transfer at the …