What's in a word? A parametric study of semantic influences on visual word recognition
What's in a word? A parametric study of semantic influences on visual word recognition
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DOI：
10.3758/s13423-011-0213-7
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发表时间：
2012-04-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Woollams, Anna M.
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作者：
Evans, Gemma A. L.;Ralph, Matthew A. Lambon;Woollams, Anna M.
语义信息在视觉词识别中发挥多大的作用？单词识别的理论在视觉词汇决策中赋予语义信息的重要性各不相同，过去的研究表明，箔的性质是语义依赖的关键决定因素。在这里，我们探讨了语义变量影响词汇决定的条件。正常读者进行视觉词汇决策任务中，操纵意象和语义启动，与非词箔变化系统的拼写和语音相似的真实的话。随着非词箔逐渐变得更像词，意象和语义启动的效果在幅度上增加。这些研究结果提供了一个清晰的例证，灵活使用语义信息，以支持正常的视觉单词识别。
To what extent does semantic information play a functional role in visual word recognition? Theories of word recognition vary in the importance assigned to semantic information in visual lexical decision, with past research suggesting that the nature of the foils is a crucial determinant of semantic reliance. Here, we explored the conditions under which semantic variables influence lexical decision. Normal readers performed visual lexical decision tasks in which imageability and semantic priming were manipulated, with nonword foils varying systematically in their orthographic and phonological similarity to the real words. The effects of imageability and semantic priming increased in magnitude as nonword foils became progressively more wordlike. These findings provide a clear illustration of the flexible use of semantic information to support normal visual word recognition.