Adelman , J . S . , & Brown , G . D . A . Modeling lexical decision :

Modeling lexical decision: the form of frequency and diversity effects.

What is the root cause of word frequency effects on lexical decision times? W. S. Murray and K. I. Forster (2004) argued that such effects are linear in rank frequency, consistent with a serial search model of lexical access. In this article, the authors (a) describe a method of testing models of such effects that takes into account the possibility of parametric overfitting; (b) illustrate the ...

Contextual diversity, not word frequency, determines word-naming and lexical decision times.

Word frequency is an important predictor of word-naming and lexical decision times. It is, however, confounded with contextual diversity, the number of contexts in which a word has been seen. In a study using a normative, corpus-based measure of contextual diversity, word-frequency effects were eliminated when effects of contextual diversity were taken into account (but not vice versa) across t...

Individual Differences in Lexical Priming 4.1. Lexical Priming in Healthy and Cognitively Impaired Older Adults 4.2. Lexical Priming and Conceptual Organization in Childhood

The role of semantic diversity in lexical organization.

Recent research has challenged the notion that word frequency is the organizing principle underlying lexical access, pointing instead to the number of contexts that a word occurs in (Adelman, Brown, & Quesada, 2006). Counting contexts gives a better quantitative fit to human lexical decision and naming data than counting raw occurrences of words. However, this approach ignores the information r...

Not All Negative Words Slow Down Lexical Decision and Naming Speed: Importance of Word Arousal

Previously the authors analyzed sets of words used in emotion Stroop experiments and found little evidence of automatic vigilance, for example, slower lexical decision time (LDT) or naming speed for negative words after controlling for lexical features. If there is a slowdown evoked by word negativity, most studies to date overestimate the effect because word negativity is often confounded with...