title: Redundancy gain for semantic features.
abstract: In a go/no-go experiment, semantic redundancy gain was assessed for responses to single written words. Specifically, we asked participants to respond only to words whose meaning matched at least one semantic target feature-that is, the target category (e.g., animal), the target color (e.g., gray), or both. On redundant-target trials, the word (e.g., elephant) matched both semantic target features (i.e., gray and animal). On single-target trials, the word (e.g., beaver) matched one target feature (i.e., animal) and a nontarget feature (i.e., brown). We observed shorter reaction times in the redundant-target condition than in the faster single-target condition. Hence, the present study provides the first evidence that redundancy gain is not limited to responses to redundant proximal stimulus features but can also be observed for responses to semantic feature information.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. anja.fiedler@uni-tuebingen.de
authors.forename: Anja
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fiedler
authors.forename: Hannes
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Schröter
authors.forename: Rolf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ulrich
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D012660:Semantics; D055815:Young Adult