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Schvaneveldt, Roger W.; McDonald, James E. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1981
Earlier research with the lexical decision task led to the hypothesis that semantic context facilitates the encoding of words related to the context. Six experiments which employed different tasks (e.g., making a lexical decision) and different experimental paradigms (e.g., tachistoscopic exposures with masking stimuli) further investigated this…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Context Clues, Higher Education, Models