Semantic Neighborhood Effects for Abstract versus Concrete Words.

ABSTRACT: Studies show that semantic effects may be task-specific, and thus, that semantic representations are flexible and dynamic. Such findings are critical to the development of a comprehensive theory of semantic processing in visual word recognition, which should arguably account for how semantic effects may vary by task. It has been suggested that semantic effects are more directly examined using tasks that explicitly require meaning processing relative to those for which meaning processing is not necessary (e.g., lexical decision task). The purpose of the present study was to chart the processing of concrete versus abstract words in the context of a global co-occurrence variable, semantic neighborhood density (SND), by comparing word recognition response times (RTs) across four tasks varying

SUBMITTER: Danguecan AN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4933712 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature