You can’t Stroop a lexical decision: Is semantic processing fundamentally facilitative?

You can't Stroop a lexical decision: is semantic processing fundamentally facilitative?

It is well documented that related prime words facilitate target processing in lexical decision (e.g., doctor facilitates nurse), but interfere with target processing in the Stroop task (e.g., the word blue slows the time to name the colour red). Five experiments explored several potential explanations for these differences. In Experiments 1 and 2, all stimuli were novel (as in a typical lexica...

Signi cant Lexical Relationships

We describe a test that can be used to accurately assess the significance of a population model from a data sample using freely available software. We apply this test to the study of lexical relationships and demonstrate that the results obtained using this test are both theoretically more reliable and diierent from the results obtained using previous approaches.

cant Lexical Relationships

Statistical NLP inevitably deals with a large number of rare events As a consequence NLP data often vio lates the assumptions implicit in traditional statistical procedures such as signi cance testing We describe a signi cance test an exact conditional test that is appropriate for NLP data and can be performed us ing freely available software We apply this test to the study of lexical relations...

The Effect of Semantic Transfer on Iranian EFL Learners’ Lexical Representation and Processing

Modelling Graded Semantic Effects in Lexical Decision

Recent studies have shown that the involvement of semantic information in visual lexical decision depends on the nature of nonword foils with semantic effects increased as nonwords become more word-like (Evans, Lambon Ralph &Woollams, 2012). Given that most models of lexical decision focus on orthographic information (Coltheart, Rastle, Perry, Langdon & Ziegler, 2001; Grainger & Jacobs, 1996; S...