In the current study, participants made a verbal naming response to prime target word flanked by distractor word, followed lexical decision probe or nonword, word. By tracking potential priming effects from having either become (attended repetition condition) (ignored condition), consistent positive and negative were obtained. These results broaden our understanding that stimulus-response bindi...

In spoken word identification and memory tasks, stimulus variability from numerous sources impairs performance. In the current study, the influence of foreign-accent variability on spoken word identification was evaluated in two experiments. Experiment 1 used a between-subjects design to test word identification in noise in single-talker and two multiple-talker conditions: multiple talkers with...

We conducted a preliminary study to examine whether Chinese readers' spontaneous word segmentation processing is consistent with the national standard rules of word segmentation based on the Contemporary Chinese language word segmentation specification for information processing (CCLWSSIP). Participants were asked to segment Chinese sentences into individual words according to their prior knowl...

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