Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4, Canada.
Department of Psychology, Western University, 1151 Richmond Street, London, Ontario, N6A 3K7, Canada.
Psychon Bull Rev. 2024 Oct;31(5):2257-2265. doi: 10.3758/s13423-024-02485-5. Epub 2024 Mar 8.
In many models of lexical and semantic processing, it is assumed that single word processing is a function of the characteristics of the words presented and the distributional properties of the words' networks. Recent research suggests that semantic characteristics of a target word's associates may in fact influence target-word responses in lexical-semantic tasks. The present study extends that previous research to examine whether lexical and semantic properties of target-word associates are recruited during lexical and semantic decision tasks, and whether the type of associate information recruited varies as a function of task and concreteness of the target word. We found that lexical-semantic properties of words' first associates are related to accuracy of responses to words in lexical decision, and that semantic properties of words' first associates are related to both response time and accuracy in semantic decision. Further, these effects differ depending on the target word's concreteness. These findings provide new insight about the way words' associates contribute to semantic representation and processing, even though the associates are not actually presented, moving beyond previous assumptions about lexical-semantic processing of single words.
在许多词汇和语义处理模型中，人们假设单个单词的处理是由呈现单词的特征和单词网络的分布特性决定的。最近的研究表明，目标词的联想词的语义特征实际上可能会影响词汇语义任务中的目标词反应。本研究将之前的研究扩展到考察目标词联想词的词汇和语义属性是否在词汇和语义决策任务中被招募，以及招募的联想词信息类型是否会根据任务和目标词的具体性而有所不同。我们发现，词的第一联想词的词汇语义属性与词汇决策中对词的反应准确性有关，而词的第一联想词的语义属性与语义决策中的反应时间和准确性都有关。此外，这些影响因目标词的具体性而异。这些发现提供了关于单词联想词如何有助于语义表示和处理的新见解，即使联想词实际上并未呈现，这也超越了关于单个单词词汇语义处理的先前假设。
