title: The English Lexicon Project.
abstract: The English Lexicon Project is a multiuniversity effort to provide a standardized behavioral and descriptive data set for 40,481 words and 40,481 nonwords. It is available via the Internet at elexicon.wustl.edu. Data from 816 participants across six universities were collected in a lexical decision task (approximately 3400 responses per participant), and data from 444 participants were collected in a speeded naming task (approximately 2500 responses per participant). The present paper describes the motivation for this project, the methods used to collect the data, and the search engine that affords access to the behavioral measures and descriptive lexical statistics for these stimuli.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA. dbalota@artsci.wustl.edu
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Balota
authors.forename: Melvin J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Yap
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Cortese
authors.forename: Keith A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Hutchison
authors.forename: Brett
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kessler
authors.forename: Bjorn
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Loftis
authors.forename: James H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Neely
authors.forename: Douglas L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Nelson
authors.forename: Greg B
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Simpson
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Treiman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D011930:Reaction Time; D014825:Vocabulary