Journal article
Role of prior knowledge on naming and lexical decisions with good and poor stimulus information
Journal of experimental psychology. Human learning and memory, Vol.4(5), pp.498-512
09/01/1978
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.4.5.498
Abstract
Studied the extent to which prior knowledge of a superordinate category facilitates recognition of an instance of that category. In Exp I, 12 undergraduates named good and poor exemplars of categories with and without prior presentation of the category name. The test words were either printed in a normal upright position or the words were rotated 180°. Prior priming with the category name shortened naming times, but only when the test stimulus was rotated. The prime facilitated recognition to a greater degree for the good exemplars than for the poor exemplars. To ensure that lexical access was not bypassed, the study was replicated with 6 undergraduates in a lexical decision task. Nonwords were identical to the test words except that they were misspelled by one letter. Identical results were found in the lexical decision task. These experiments and other recent studies make apparent the tradeoff between the facilitating effects of prior knowledge and stimulus information in word recognition. (21 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Role of prior knowledge on naming and lexical decisions with good and poor stimulus information
- Creators
- Dominic W Massaro - University of Wisconsin SystemRobert D JonesCatherine LipscombRick Scholz
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of experimental psychology. Human learning and memory, Vol.4(5), pp.498-512
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- DOI
- 10.1037/0278-7393.4.5.498
- ISSN
- 0096-1515
- eISSN
- 2327-9745
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/01/1978
- Academic Unit
- Neurology
- Record Identifier
- 9984303557202771
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