No enemies in the neighborhood: Absence of inhibitory neighborhood effects in lexical decision and semantic categorization

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Forster, KI
Shen, D
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[1] Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson
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10.1037/0278-7393.22.3.696
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B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
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The effect of neighborhood density on visual word recognition was found to be facilitatory for words but inhibitory for nonwords in 3 lexical-decision experiments. However, the facilitation virtually disappeared when the task was changed to semantic categorization (animal vs. nonanimal), despite the presence of a strong frequency effect. None of these experiments showed a consistent inhibitory effect of a higher frequency neighbor. The absence of inhibitory effects suggests that competition does not play a key role in visual word recognition. The data also suggest that the neighborhood density effect is not an access effect but is a task-dependent effect instead.
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