NoA's Ark: influence of the number of associates in visual word recognition.
The main aim of this study was to explore the extent to which the number of associates of a word (NoA) influences lexical access, in four tasks that focus on different processes of visual word recognition: lexical decision, reading aloud, progressive demasking, and online sentence reading. Results consistently showed that words with a dense associative neighborhood (high-NoA words) were processed faster than words with a sparse neighborhood (low-NoA words), extending previous findings from English lexical decision and categorization experiments. These results are interpreted in terms of the higher degree of semantic richness of high-NoA words as compared with low-NoA words.
Duñabeitia
Jon Andoni
JA
Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain. jaduna@ull.es
Avilés
Alberto
A
Carreiras
Manuel
M
D001245:Association Learning; D032882:Comprehension; D006801:Humans; D010700:Phonetics; D011932:Reading; D012660:Semantics; D014705:Verbal Behavior