Interactive Effects of Age-of-Acquisition and Repetition Priming in the Lexical Decision Task

2013 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 235-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pietro Spataro ◽  
Emiddia Longobardi ◽  
Daniele Saraulli ◽  
Clelia Rossi-Arnaud
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Lexical Decision Task ◽  
Repetition Priming ◽  
Significant Interaction ◽  
Age Of Acquisition ◽  
Interactive Effects ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Phonological Representations ◽  
Phonological Processes ◽  
Multiple Loci

The analysis of the interaction between repetition priming and age of acquisition may be used to shed further light on the question of which stages of elaboration are affected by this psycholinguistic variable. In the present study we applied this method in the context of two versions of a lexical decision task that differed in the type of non-words employed at test. When the non-words were illegal and unpronounceable, repetition priming was primarily based on the analysis of orthographic information, while phonological processes were additionally recruited only when using legal pronounceable non-words. The results showed a significant interaction between repetition priming and age of acquisition in both conditions, with priming being greater for late- than for early-acquired words. These findings support a multiple-loci account, indicating that age of acquisition influences implicit memory by facilitating the retrieval of both the orthographic and the phonological representations of studied words.

scholarly journals Lexical and Phonological Processes in Dyslexic Readers: Evidence from a Visual Lexical Decision Task

Dyslexia ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susana Araújo ◽  
Luís Faísca ◽  
Inês Bramão ◽  
Karl Magnus Petersson ◽  
Alexandra Reis
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Lexical Decision Task ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Phonological Processes ◽  
Visual Lexical Decision

Bilingual Lexical Representation: The Status of Spanish-English Cognates

1986 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Cristoffanini ◽  
Kim Kirsner ◽  
Dan Milech
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Functional Status ◽  
Lexical Decision Task ◽  
Repetition Priming ◽  
Lexical Representation ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Lexical Organization ◽  
Critical Feature ◽  
General Proposition ◽  
The Status

Two experiments were conducted to determine the functional status of cognates. Two hypotheses were considered. According to the first hypothesis, language is a critical feature governing lexical organization, and cognates may therefore be equated with morphologically unrelated translations. According to a second hypothesis, however, language is not a critical feature governing lexical organization. Instead, the boundaries between perceptual categories are determined by morphological considerations, and cognates may therefore be equated with intra-lingual variations such as inflections and derivations. If the first hypothesis is correct, cognate performance should follow that observed for translations, but if the second hypothesis is correct, cognate performance should follow that observed for inflections and derivations. The experiments used different procedures in order to discount taskspecific explanations. The first experiment involved repetition priming in a lexical decision task, and emphasis was placed on relative priming; that is, on the amount of facilitation which occurs when, for example, OBEDIENCIA primes OBEDIENCE, expressed as a fraction of the amount of facilitation that occurs when the same word is presented on each occasion (i.e., when OBEDIENCE is used to prime OBEDIENCE). The second experiment tested memory for language. Four types of cognates were tested. These were: orthographically identical cognates, regular cognates with cion/tion substitution, regular cognates with dad/ty substitution, and irregularly derived cognates. The results were unequivocal. The priming values observed previously for cognates were qualitatively and quantitatively similar to those observed for inflections and derivations, and this classification was confirmed in the second experiment, involving memory for language. The results are consistent with the general proposition that morphology rather than language governs the boundaries between perceptual categories, and a number of specific explanations are reviewed.

Phonological Encoding in the Lexical Decision Task

1979 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 489-507 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Coltheart ◽  
Derek Besner ◽  
Jon Torfi Jonasson ◽  
Eileen Davelaar
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Lexical Decision Task ◽  
Lexical Access ◽  
Letter String ◽  
Lexical Entry ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Phonological Recoding ◽  
Phonological Encoding ◽  
Phonological Representations ◽  
Correspondence Rules

In lexical decision experiments, subjects have difficulty in responding NO to non-words which are pronounced exactly like English words (e.g. BRANE). This does not necessarily imply that access to a lexical entry ever occurs via a phonological recoding of a visually-presented word. The phonological recoding procedure might be so slow that when the letter string presented is a word, access to its lexical entry via a visual representation is always achieved before phonological recoding is completed. If prelexical phonological recodings are produced by using grapheme-phoneme correspondence rules, such recodings can only occur for words which conform to these rules (regular words), since applications of the rules to words which do not conform to the rules (exception words) produce incorrect phonological representations. In two experiments, it was found that time to achieve lexical access (as measured by YES latency in a lexical decision task) was equivalent for regular words and exception words. It was concluded that access to lexical entries in lexical decision experiments of this sort does not proceed by sometimes or always phonologically recoding visually-presented words.

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