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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Lexical Decision Task"”.
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Thought and action: Event-related potentials and behaviour in a primed and speeded lexical decision task.
… from 10 subjects during semantically primed lexical decisions in an Accuracy condition (response deadline 700 msec) and a Speed condition (deadline 450 msec). Targets were the prime's antonym, an unrelated word, or a nonword. The Speed condition reduced response time (RT) and accuracy, but …
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The use of the auditory lexical decision task as a method for assessing the relative quality of synthetic speech
… The method involves the use of an auditory lexical decision task to assess the quality of synthetic speech generators relative to each other and to natural speech by using reaction time differences and error rates. Seven voices were evaluated; four synthesizers provided six voices (DECtalk …
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The Relationship Between Cognitive And Linguistic Abilities In Bilingual Children
… States. Participants were presented with two tasks: the Flanker task as the measure of attentional control (resistance to distractor interference) and the Lexical decision task as the measure of reading ability (processing words and discarding pseudohomophones). Performance in the Flanker task …
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A MEG investigation of lexical access in aphasia
… or both. The present study examined spreading lexical activation in people with aphasia by implementing thorough clinical evaluation, a series of listening tasks, and a time sensitive means of tracking cortical activation. Magnetoencephalography (MEG) was used to measure the cortical activity …
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Is semantic priming influenced by capacity?
… general hypotheses: 1) latencies are longer for lexical-decision tasks than they are for naming task due to the increased capacity demands of the lexical-decision task, and 2) priming found with the keypress task is greater than the priming found with the vocal tasks due to facilitatory …
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The Effect of Race in Therapy
… watching the video, participants completed a lexical decision task, in order to measure their stereotype activation. Then, participants rated their impressions of the client on a questionnaire, which was our measure of stereotype application. In Study 2, participants were 73 undergraduate …
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Depravity and the Protestant Work Ethic: Creativity in Western Religions
… male participants were given two different tasks designed to elicit a sense of temptation and transgression in specific conditions. Subsequently participants completed several tasks measuring creativity and concentrated hard work. Results showed that Protestants primed with dirty words in a …
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The Effect Of Word Sociality On Word Recognition
… recognition data using the visual and auditory lexical decision tasks. The results consistently demonstrated that sociality is one of the most robust predictors of lexical decision performance. Overall, it appears that the visual lexical decision task is quite sensitive to the likelihood of …
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Explorations of Sound Symbolism and Iconicity
… that iconic words are processed faster on a lexical decision task as well as a phonological lexical decision task, compared to arbitrary words. I consider how this finding might fit into an existing model of word processing. Finally, in Chapter 5, I explore the effect of iconicity on the …
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How Regulatory Focus Impacts Knowledge Accessibility
… three studies, participants completed a synonym task. Half the synonym problems were presented as the potential to gain points for correct answers and not to gain points for incorrect answers; the other half were presented as the potential not to lose points for correct answers and to lose points …
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Hemispheric Differences in Semantic Priming Examined Across Handedness Groups
… in semantic priming across handedness groups. A lexical decision task was administered to 87 individuals, classified into handedness groups: consistent right-handers; consistent left-handers; and inconsistent-handers. Participants were presented with strongly- and nonassociated category members …
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When is a corner like corn? Morpho-orthographic segmenting skills in children who struggle with reading
… in language. To measure it, a masked priming lexical decision task was used, where prime words varied, from morphologically related to the target (teacher-TEACH), to pseudo-suffixed relationships (corner-CORN). A dual-route theory of orthographic processing suggests that these words are …
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DO STRATEGIC PRIMING PROCESSES DIFFER FOR CATEGORY VS. ASSOCIATIVE PRIMING? AN EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS STUDY OF PROACTIVE EXPECTANCY STRATEGIES.
… at a semantic level. Participants performed a lexical decision task with a category-dominant or associative-dominant list while ERPs were recorded. We predicted that the associative effects would be mediated by facilitation and would influence the N170 and that the categorical effects would be …
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The magical realism of metaphor: cross-cultural comparisons in use of metaphor in cognition
… – differs across cultures. In Experiment 1, a lexical decision task supported the hypothesis that perception of what something is like tends to be faster and more automatic in Latino participants than in Anglo participants. In Experiment 2, Anglo participants were less able to solve a problem …
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The effects of mortality-salience inducing direct-to-consumer prescription drug commercials on viewer attitude toward high and low status brands
… additional brand ratings. Study 4 used a lexical decision task to measure for mortality salience; results showed that participants who watched the ads for Cymbalta and Plavix responded faster to death words. The status of brand had no effect on how participants rated the brand. Additional …
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Role of Executive Function and Alcohol-Sex Schema in the Relationship Between Alcohol Use and Sexual Assault
… alcohol use and sexual assault, a battery of EF tasks, and a lexical decision task assessing alcohol-sex schema. Sexual assault significantly predicted alcohol use four months later. EF, specifically domains of working memory and processing speed, also significantly predicted alcohol use, even …
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The effects of word characteristics on children's reading
… of reading for good and poor readers and lexical decision performance for average readers. It also appeared that as reading ability improved, word properties such as the Orthographic Neighbour Ratio, which takes into account neighourhood size and frequency affected reading accuracy in the …
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The effects of levels of sentential context on scope of reference for contextually defined categories
… 2, when exemplars were presented as targets in a lexical decision task, facilitation increased with each increase in constraint. In Experiment 3, high constraints facilitated decision times of more appropriate exemplars, but inhibited decision times for less appropriate exemplars. Moderate …
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Elektrodermale Aktivität und lexikalische Verarbeitung bei Aphasie
… and pseudowords as targets and distractors in a lexical decision task requiring selective attention. We wondered whether access to the phonological input lexicon was still available in all clinical conditions of aphasia. All participants (aphasic patients and normal subjects) discriminated well …
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