NoA's Ark: Influence of the Number of Associates in visual word recognition Export

@article{citeulike:3179611, abstract = {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 on-line 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 to low-NoA words.}, author = {Du\~{n}abeitia, J. A. and Avil\'{e}s, A. and Carreiras, M.}, citeulike-article-id = {3179611}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.neurocog.ull.es/}, journal = {Psychonomic Bulletin \& Review}, keywords = {associative, comprehension, psycholinguistics, semantics, written}, posted-at = {2008-09-01 18:08:44}, priority = {2}, title = {NoA's Ark: Influence of the Number of Associates in visual word recognition}, url = {http://www.neurocog.ull.es/}, year = {in press} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3179611 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3179611 N2 - 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 on-line 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 to low-NoA words. JF - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review TI - NoA's Ark: Influence of the Number of Associates in visual word recognition KW - associative KW - comprehension KW - psycholinguistics KW - semantics KW - written AU - Duñabeitia, JA AU - Avilés, A AU - Carreiras, M PY - in press/// UR - http://www.neurocog.ull.es/ ER -