Time course of frequency effects in spoken-word recognition: evidence from eye movements. Export

@article{citeulike:268288, abstract = {In two experiments, eye movements were monitored as participants followed spoken instructions to click on and move pictures with a computer mouse. In Experiment 1, a referent picture (e.g., the picture of a bench) was presented along with three pictures, two of which had names that shared the same initial phonemes as the name of the referent (e.g., bed and bell). Participants were more likely to fixate the picture with the higher frequency name (bed) than the picture with the lower frequency name (bell). In Experiment 2, referent pictures were presented with three unrelated distractors. Fixation latencies to referents with high-frequency names were shorter than those to referents with low-frequency names. The proportion of fixations to the referents and distractors were analyzed in 33-ms time slices to provide fine-grained information about the time course of frequency effects. These analyses established that frequency affects the earliest moments of lexical access and rule out a late-acting, decision-bias locus for frequency. Simulations using models in which frequency operates on resting-activation levels, on connection strengths, and as a postactivation decision bias provided further constraints on the locus of frequency effects.}, address = {University of Rochester, NY, USA. delphine.dahan@mpi.nl}, author = {Dahan, D. and Magnuson, J. S. and Tanenhaus, M. K.}, citeulike-article-id = {268288}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/cogp.2001.0750}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11368527}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=11368527}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WCR-458W201-7/2/e63e08de1279a928eb2c02969a446acc}, doi = {10.1006/cogp.2001.0750}, issn = {0010-0285}, journal = {Cognit Psychol}, keywords = {eye-tracking, recognition, spoken-word}, month = {June}, number = {4}, pages = {317--367}, posted-at = {2006-05-11 21:14:56}, priority = {0}, title = {Time course of frequency effects in spoken-word recognition: evidence from eye movements.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/cogp.2001.0750}, volume = {42}, year = {2001} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:268288 L3 - citeulike-article-id:268288 N2 - In two experiments, eye movements were monitored as participants followed spoken instructions to click on and move pictures with a computer mouse. In Experiment 1, a referent picture (e.g., the picture of a bench) was presented along with three pictures, two of which had names that shared the same initial phonemes as the name of the referent (e.g., bed and bell). Participants were more likely to fixate the picture with the higher frequency name (bed) than the picture with the lower frequency name (bell). In Experiment 2, referent pictures were presented with three unrelated distractors. Fixation latencies to referents with high-frequency names were shorter than those to referents with low-frequency names. The proportion of fixations to the referents and distractors were analyzed in 33-ms time slices to provide fine-grained information about the time course of frequency effects. These analyses established that frequency affects the earliest moments of lexical access and rule out a late-acting, decision-bias locus for frequency. Simulations using models in which frequency operates on resting-activation levels, on connection strengths, and as a postactivation decision bias provided further constraints on the locus of frequency effects. IS - 4 JF - Cognit Psychol SN - 0010-0285 AD - University of Rochester, NY, USA. delphine.dahan@mpi.nl EP - 367 TI - Time course of frequency effects in spoken-word recognition: evidence from eye movements. VL - 42 SP - 317 KW - eye-tracking KW - recognition KW - spoken-word AU - Dahan, D AU - Magnuson, JS AU - Tanenhaus, MK PY - 2001/06// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/cogp.2001.0750 ER -