The Effect of the Balance of Orthographic Neighborhood Distribution in Visual Word Recognition |
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Authors: | Christelle Robert Stéphanie Mathey Daniel Zagar |
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Institution: | Département de Psychologie, Université Bordeaux2, 3 place de la Victoire, 33076, Bordeaux Cedex, France. Christelle.Robert@pse.unige.ch |
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Abstract: | The present study investigated whether the balance of neighborhood distribution (i.e., the way orthographic neighbors are
spread across letter positions) influences visual word recognition. Three word conditions were compared. Word neighbors were
either concentrated on one letter position (e.g.,nasse/basse-lasse-tasse-masse) or were unequally spread across two letter positions (e.g.,pelle/celle-selle-telle-perle), or were equally spread across two letter positions (e.g.,litre/titre-vitre-libre-livre). Predictions based on the interactive activation model McClelland & Rumelhart (1981). Psychological Review, 88, 375–401]
were generated by running simulations and were confirmed in the lexical decision task. Data showed that words were more rapidly
identified when they had spread neighbors rather than concentrated neighbors. Furthermore, within the set of spread neighbors,
words were more rapidly recognized when they had equally rather than unequally spread neighbors. The findings are explained
in terms of activation and inhibition processes in the interactive activation framework. |
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Keywords: | Word recognition Orthographic neighborhood Balance of neighborhood distribution Interactive activation Lexical decision |
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