The English Lexicon Project.
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.
Balota
David A
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Department of Psychology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA. dbalota@artsci.wustl.edu
Yap
Melvin J
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Cortese
Michael J
MJ
Hutchison
Keith A
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Kessler
Brett
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Loftis
Bjorn
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Neely
James H
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Nelson
Douglas L
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Simpson
Greg B
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Treiman
Rebecca
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D000328:Adult; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D011930:Reaction Time; D014825:Vocabulary