Abstract
The effects of motivation (hunger vs. satiation) on tachistoscopic word recognition were investigated. Overall procedures were identical for foveal viewing (Experiment 1) and parafoveal viewing (Experiment 2). Results with foveal viewing confirmed earlier findings (Ferguson, 1983) that hunger facilitated word recognition and no need-relevance effects were evident. Under foveal viewing, words were recognized significantly earlier under conditions of hunger, but overt responding was not significantly faster. Under parafoveal viewing, no significant motivation effects occurred. It is possible that different processing mechanisms operate under parafoveal and foveal viewing conditions.
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