Duñabeitia Jon Andoni, Avilés Alberto, Carreiras Manuel
Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.
Psychon Bull Rev. 2008 Dec;15(6):1072-7. doi: 10.3758/PBR.15.6.1072.
The main aim of this study was to explore the extent to which the number of associates of a word (NoA) influences lexical access, in four tasks that focus on different processes of visual word recognition: lexical decision, reading aloud, progressive demasking, and online sentence reading. Results consistently showed that words with a dense associative neighborhood (high-NoA words) were processed faster than words with a sparse neighborhood (low-NoA words), extending previous findings from English lexical decision and categorization experiments. These results are interpreted in terms of the higher degree of semantic richness of high-NoA words as compared with low-NoA words.
本研究的主要目的是在四项关注视觉单词识别不同过程的任务中，探究一个单词的联想词数量（NoA）对词汇通达的影响程度：词汇判断、大声朗读、渐进掩蔽以及在线句子阅读。结果一致表明，具有密集联想邻域的单词（高NoA单词）比具有稀疏邻域的单词（低NoA单词）处理速度更快，这扩展了先前英语词汇判断和分类实验的研究结果。这些结果是根据高NoA单词与低NoA单词相比具有更高程度的语义丰富性来解释的。
