The role of valence in word processing: Evidence from lexical decision and emotional Stroop tasks
Acta Psychologica, 2021 It is widely accepted that the valence of a word (neutral, positive, or negative) influences lexical processing, yet data from the commonly used lexical decision and emotional Stroop tasks has yielded inconsistent findings regarding the direction of this
Ethan Crossfield, Markus F. Damian
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The effect of polysemy on processing of Serbian nouns [PDF]
Psihologija, 2008 It has been shown that while multiple unrelated meanings of a word (e.g. bank) increase processing latency, polysemy, that is multiple related word senses (e.g.
Filipović-Đurđević Dušica +1 more
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Frontiers in Communication, 2021 People who grow up speaking a language without lexical tones typically find it difficult to master tonal languages after childhood. Accumulating research suggests that much of the challenge for these second language (L2) speakers has to do not with ...
Eric Pelzl +4 more
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Triadic decision making in lexical memory [PDF]
Memory & Cognition, 1976 Word and category recognition was investigated in the context of other stimuli, where the semantic distance relationships among the stimuli were derived from multidimensional scaling. On each trial, three horizontal strings of letters were presented. In the word condition, a positive response was required when the three strings formed three words; in ...
D, Homa, R, Silver
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Do syllables play a role in German speech perception? Behavioral and electrophysiological data from primed lexical decision. [PDF]
, 2014 Copyright © 2015 Bien, Bölte and Zwitserlood. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).
Bölte, J. (Jens) +11 more
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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.
Jones, Lara L. +4 more
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Automatic vigilance for negative words in lexical decision and naming : comment on Larsen, Mercer, and Balota (2006) [PDF]
, 2008 An automatic vigilance hypothesis states that humans preferentially attend to negative stimuli, and this attention to negative valence disrupts the processing of other stimulus properties.
Estes, Zachary +4 more
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The scope of grammatical gender in Spanish: Transference to the conceptual level
Acta Psychologica, 2021 The aim of the present study was to explore under what circumstances we could observe a transference from grammatical gender to the conceptual representation of sex in Spanish, a two-gender language. The participants performed a lexical decision task and
Alba Casado +2 more
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BALDEY: A database of auditory lexical decisions [PDF]
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2015 In an auditory lexical decision experiment, 5541 spoken content words and pseudowords were presented to 20 native speakers of Dutch. The words vary in phonological make-up and in number of syllables and stress pattern, and are further representative of the native Dutch vocabulary in that most are morphologically complex, comprising two stems or one ...
Ernestus, Mirjam, Cutler, Anne (R12329)
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Data-driven semantic analysis for multilingual WSD and lexical selection in translation [PDF]
, 2009 A common way of describing the senses of ambiguous words in multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is by reference to their translation equivalents in another language.
Marianna Apidianaki +1 more
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