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Direct linkYates, Mark – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2005
The author investigated the role of phonological neighborhood on visual word recognition. Using a lexical decision task, the author showed in Experiment 1 that words with large phonological neighborhoods were processed more rapidly than those with smaller phonological neighborhoods. This facilitative effect was obtained even when the nonword…
Descriptors: Semantics, Phonology, Word Processing, Neighborhoods
