Neighborhood-frequency effects when primes and targets are of different lengths.
The present study provides a further investigation of the neighborhood-frequency effect. Using the masked priming procedure, we found that the neighborhood-frequency effect is obtained not only with primes and targets of the same length but also with primes and targets of a different length. This result is not compatible with most current versions of the interactive activation model. Implications of the finding are discussed.
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Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Ghent, Belgium. Wendy.DeMoor@rug.ac.be
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D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D011930:Reaction Time; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014825:Vocabulary