Reaction time of lexical decision and word recognition score were measured to investigate whether the neighborhood, a word candidate set with single mora substitution with a target word, has inhibitory effects on spoken word recognition in Japanese. Partial correlation analyses were conducted between subjects’ performance of spoken word recognition (reaction time and recognition score) and neig...

A fundamental function of natural language is to focus the interlocutor's attention to specific entities and circumstances from the vast set of possibilities in the environment. In other words, as an utterance progresses, the narrower its reference typically becomes. Intriguingly, there is substantial convergence in the neural localization of conceptual specificity effects at the single word le...