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Direct linkPeressotti, Francesca; Cubelli, Roberto; Job, Remo – Cognitive Psychology, 2003
Five experiments investigated the recognition of proper names and common nouns using the lexical decision paradigm. In Experiments 1-3 the case of the initial letter of written stimuli was systematically varied. An advantage was consistently found for proper names written with the first letter in capital. Crucially, response times to proper names…
Descriptors: Semantics, Nouns, Word Recognition, Cues
