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Yinuo Zhu; Mengmeng Cai; Pei Wang; Xin Chang – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
This study, employing unmasked priming lexical decision tasks, examines the possible effects of the phonogram properties on the representation of Chinese phonograms and their radicals. In Experiment 1, the representation of radicals (semantic radical and phonetic radical) and their host phonograms is compared under various phonograms types.…
Descriptors: Chinese, Form Classes (Languages), Word Recognition, Phonics
Dymarska, Agata; Connell, Louise; Banks, Briony – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
Semantic richness theory predicts that words with richer, more distinctive semantic representations should facilitate performance in a word recognition memory task. We investigated the contribution of multiple aspects of sensorimotor experience--those relating to the body, communication, food, and objects--to word recognition memory, by analyzing…
Descriptors: Memory, Semantics, Word Recognition, Sensory Experience
Veronica Diveica; Emiko J. Muraki; Richard J. Binney; Penny M. Pexman – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
Contemporary theories of semantic representation posit that social experience is an important source of information for deriving meaning. However, there is a lack of behavioral evidence in support of this proposal. The aim of the present work was to test whether words' degree of social relevance, or "socialness", influences…
Descriptors: Adults, Social Experience, Semantics, Social Influences
Antony, James W.; Bennion, Kelly A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
Semantic similarity between stimuli can lead to false memories and can also potentially cause retroactive interference (RI) for veridical memories. Here, participants first learned spatial locations for "critical" words that reliably produce false memories in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm. Next, participants centrally viewed…
Descriptors: Semantics, Task Analysis, Spatial Ability, Ambiguity (Semantics)
Daoxin Li – ProQuest LLC, 2024
During language acquisition, children are tasked with the challenge of determining which words can appear in which syntactic constructions. This has been long recognized as a learnability paradox. On one hand, there are generalizations that children must learn. On the other hand, language is known for its arbitrariness, so children also need to…
Descriptors: Generalization, Language Acquisition, Syntax, Word Recognition
Ming Yean Sia; Emily Mather; Matthew W. Crocker; Nivedita Mani – Developmental Science, 2024
Previous studies showed that word learning is affected by children's existing knowledge. For instance, knowledge of semantic category aids word learning, whereas a dense phonological neighbourhood impedes learning of similar-sounding words. Here, we examined to what extent children associate similar-sounding words (e.g., rat and cat) with objects…
Descriptors: Semantics, Vocabulary Development, Word Recognition, Prior Learning
Jasmine Spencer; Hasibe Kahraman; Elisabeth Beyersmann – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
Reading morphologically complex words requires analysis of their morphemic subunits (e.g., play + er); however, the positional constraints of morphemic processing are still little understood. The current study involved three unprimed lexical decision experiments to directly compare the positional encoding of stems and affixes during reading and to…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Suffixes, Word Recognition, College Students
Lin Chen; Charles Perfetti; Yi Xu – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2025
Research on alphabetic reading presents conflicting findings concerning the timing of orthographic and meaning processes in reading morphologically complex words. Chinese characters offer distinct visual cues for morphemes, enabling straightforward manipulations to examine orthographic and meaning processes. Guided by the Character-Word Dual…
Descriptors: Chinese, Ideography, Symbolic Language, Second Language Learning
Vincent Bourassa Bedard; Natacha Trudeau; Andrea A. N. MacLeod – Journal of Child Language, 2023
Current understanding of word-finding (WF) difficulties in children and their underlying language processing deficit is poor. Authors have proposed that different underlying deficits may result in different profiles. The current study aimed to better understand WF difficulties by identifying difficult tasks for children with WF difficulties and by…
Descriptors: Child Language, Word Recognition, Word Lists, Difficulty Level
Peter Vavra; Leo Sokolovic; Emanuele Porcu; Pablo Ripollés; Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells; Toemme Noesselt – npj Science of Learning, 2023
Incentives can decrease performance by undermining intrinsic motivation. How such an interplay of external reinforcers and internal self-regulation influences memory processes, however, is less known. Here, we investigated their interaction on memory performance while learning the meaning of new-words from their context. Specifically, participants…
Descriptors: Self Management, Feedback (Response), Memory, Incentives
Filip Nenadic; Ryan G. Podlubny; Daniel Schmidtke; Matthew C. Kelley; Benjamin V. Tucker – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
While known to influence visual lexical processing, the semantic information we associate with words has recently been found to influence auditory lexical processing as well. The present work explored the influence of "semantic richness" in auditory lexical decision. Study 1 recreated an experiment investigating semantic richness effects…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Word Recognition, Semantics, Auditory Stimuli
Li, Degao; Song, Dangui; Wang, Tao – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
To compare the influences of concreteness and imageability on Chinese two-character (2C) word recognition, two experiments were conducted in a primed task on a cohort of skilled readers. In addition to PRIME (2C words or their transposed constituent characters) and DIRECTION (forward or backward collocations between prime words and targets),…
Descriptors: Chinese, Word Recognition, Imagery, Psycholinguistics
Cheng-Yu Hsieh; Marco Marelli; Kathleen Rastle – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
Most printed Chinese words are compounds built from the combination of meaningful characters. Yet, there is a poor understanding of how individual characters contribute to the recognition of compounds. Using a megastudy of Chinese word recognition (Tse et al., 2017), we examined how the lexical decision of existing and novel Chinese compounds was…
Descriptors: Semantics, Orthographic Symbols, Chinese, Reading Processes
Haro, Juan; Comesaña, Montserrat; Ferré, Pilar – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2019
The present study explores the issue of why ambiguous words are recognized faster than unambiguous ones during word recognition. To this end we contrasted two different hypotheses: the "semantic feedback" hypothesis (Hino and Lupker in J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 22:1331-1356, 1996. https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.22.6.1331), and…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Psycholinguistics, Word Recognition, Ambiguity (Semantics)
Peel, Hayden J.; Royals, Kayla A.; Chouinard, Philippe A. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2022
It is widely assumed that subliminal word priming is case insensitive and that a short SOA (< 100 ms) is required to observe any effects. Here we attempted to replicate results from an influential study with the inclusion of a longer SOA to re-examine these assumptions. Participants performed a semantic categorisation task on visible word…
Descriptors: Priming, Psycholinguistics, Reaction Time, Semantics