Davis Colin J, Taff Marcus
Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Psychon Bull Rev. 2005 Oct;12(5):904-10. doi: 10.3758/bf03196784.
This article reports two lexical decision experiments that provide evidence for the automatic activation of deletion neighbors-that is, words that overlap with the presented word save for the deletion of one letter. Experiment 1 showed slower and less accurate no decisions for nonwords with deletion neighbors (e.g., come in scome), relative to control nonwords. Experiment 2 showed slower and less accurate yes decisions for words with higher frequency deletion neighbors, relative to control words. An important methodological implication of these results is that stimuli should be equated using a different definition of orthographic neighborhood from that which is currently the norm. The results also have significant theoretical implications for input coding schemes and the mechanisms underlying recognition of familiar words.
本文报告了两项词汇判断实验，这些实验为删除邻词（即除了删除一个字母外与呈现的单词重叠的单词）的自动激活提供了证据。实验1表明，与对照非词相比，具有删除邻词的非词（例如come与scome）的“否”判断更慢且准确性更低。实验2表明，与对照词相比，具有高频删除邻词的词的“是”判断更慢且准确性更低。这些结果的一个重要方法学意义是，应使用与当前规范不同的正字法邻域定义来使刺激相等。这些结果对输入编码方案以及熟悉单词识别的潜在机制也具有重要的理论意义。
