The authors report a series of experiments in which they use the masked congruence priming paradigm to investigate the processing of masked primes in the manual and verbal response modalities. In the manual response modality, they found that masked incongruent primes produced interference relative to both congruent and neutral primes. This…

Novices and experienced business executives were compared on speed at dictation and writing of business letters. Differences between the two groups were not as great as might have been expected. Composition itself appears to be the fundamental skill and limiting factor, while the method of composing is secondary. (SJL)