Distributional Analyses in Visual Lexical Decision: Orthographic Neighborhood Density and Word Frequency Effects
Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: The effects of orthographic neighborhood density and word frequency in visual word recognition were investigated using distributional analyses of response latencies in visual lexical decision.Main effects of density and frequency were observed in mean latencies.Distributional analyses, in addition, revealed a density x frequency interaction: for lowfrequency words, density effects were mediated predominantly by distributional shifting whereas for highfrequency words, density effects were absent except at the slower RTs, implicating distributional skewing.The present findings suggest that density effects in low-frequency words reflect processes involved in early lexical access, while the effects observed in high-frequency words reflect late postlexical checking processes.
Authors: Stephen Wee Hun Lim, Melvin J. Yap
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2767236370