Effects of orthographic neighborhood in visual word recognition: cross-task comparisons.
Effects of orthographic neighborhood in visual word recognition in Spanish were examined in 5 paradigms: progressive demasking, standard lexical decision, lexical decision with blocking of neighborhood density, naming, and semantic categorization. The results showed inhibitory effects of neighborhood frequency in the progressive-demasking task, in both lexical-decision tasks, as well as for low-density words in the naming task, and for high-density words in the semantic-categorization task. Higher levels of neighborhood density produced an inhibitory trend in the progressive-demasking task, facilitation in lexical decision (significant only when neighborhood density was blocked), and a robust facilitation effect in naming (only for words with higher frequency neighbors). A global analysis across tasks and one simulation study helped outline some of the underlying task-specific and task-independent mechanisms.
Carreiras
M
M
Departamento de Psicología Cognitiva, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain. mcarreiras@ull.es
Perea
M
M
Grainger
J
J
D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D011930:Reaction Time; D014825:Vocabulary; D014956:Writing