Attentional modulation of orthographic neighborhood effects during reading: Evidence from event-related brain potentials in a psychological refractory period paradigm [PDF]
, 2018 It is often assumed that word reading proceeds automatically. Here, we tested this assumption by recording event-related potentials during a psychological refractory period (PRP) paradigm, requiring lexical decisions about written words. Specifically, we
Conrad, Markus +4 more
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Abstract, emotional and concrete concepts and the activation of mouth-hand effectors [PDF]
, 2018 According to embodied and grounded theories, concepts are grounded in sensorimotor systems. The majority of evidence supporting these views concerns concepts referring to objects or actions, while evidence on abstract concepts is more scarce.
Benassi, Mariagrazia +4 more
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Moving beyond Kucera and Francis: a critical evaluation of current word frequency norms and the introduction of a new and improved word frequency measure for American English [PDF]
, 2009 Word frequency is the most important variable in research on word processing and memory. Yet, the main criterion for selecting word frequency norms has been the availability of the measure, rather than its quality.
Brysbaert, Marc, New, Boris
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Semantic diversity:A measure of contextual variation in word meaning based on latent semantic analysis [PDF]
, 2013 Semantic ambiguity is typically measured by summing the number of senses or dictionary definitions that a word has. Such measures are somewhat subjective and may not adequately capture the full extent of variation in word meaning, particularly for ...
AM Woollams +54 more
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Disponibilidad léxica en diferentes niveles de español/lengua extranjera
Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2014 The objective of this study is to present the lexical availability in Slovene students of Spanish FL through the application of lexico-statistical methodology.
Marjana Šifrar Kalan
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Fenòmens de contacte lingüístic en el lèxic disponible català de Lleida
Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2016 This article aims to analyse the influence of Spanish on the lexicon available in Catalan. For this pur-pose, we examine to what extent the Catalan lexicon contains elements of Spanish and what value these units havewithin the data ...
Maribel Serrano Zapata
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Xarxes semàntiques en el lèxic disponible de València. Una aproximació al lexicó bilingüe
Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2016 This work deals with the situation of languages in contact and explores the nature of bilingual lexicon by studying lexical availability. Based on the results published in 2010 in Lèxic disponible de València, and in relation to ‘town’ as the center of ...
M-Begoña Gómez-Devís +1 more
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Relaciones significativas en el léxico disponible de un colectivo
Studia Iberystyczne, 2017 Meaningful Relationships in Lexical Availability Within a Collectiv This article analyzes the lexical associations within the available lexicon produced by a sample of 120 Polish students of Spanish as a Foreign Language.
Antonio María López González
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Busting a myth with the Bayes Factor: Effects of letter bigram frequency in visual lexical decision do not reflect reading processes [PDF]
, 2017 Psycholinguistic researchers identify linguistic variables and assess if they affect cognitive processes. One such variable is letter bigram frequency, or the frequency with which a given letter pair co-occurs in an orthography.
Mulatti, Claudio, Schmalz, Xenia
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Integrative priming occurs rapidly and uncontrollably during lexical processing [PDF]
, 2009 Lexical priming, whereby a prime word facilitates recognition of a related target word (e.g., nurse ? doctor), is typically attributed to association strength, semantic similarity, or compound familiarity.
Estes, Zachary, Jones, Lara L.
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