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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"neighborhood activation model"”.
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Neighborhood Density and Word Recognition: Effects of Phoneme Position
… between the assumptions underlying the neighborhood activation model (NAM) and contemporary models of word retrieval. In this study, participants listened to CVC words and non-words with the following characteristics: 1) dense initial and sparse final consonant neighborhoods, 2) sparse …
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The Effect of Age-related Declines in Inhibitory Control on Audiovisual Speech Intelligibility
… In the current study, I extend an existing model of spoken-word recognition to the AV domain and refer to the new model as the Auditory-Visual Neighborhood Activation Model: AV-NAM). The primary goal of the current study was to examine the cognitive factors that contribute to age-related and …
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Sizing up the competition: Quantifying the influence of the mental lexicon on auditory, visual, and audiovisual spoken word recognition
… even perceptually distant words may receive some activation, and therefore provide competition, during spoken word recognition. Spoken word recognition in A-only, V-only, and AV was sensitive to modality-specific lexical competition and stimulus frequency. These findings extend the scope of …