Abstract
While known to influence visual lexical processing, the semantic information we associate with words has recently been found to influence auditory lexical processing as well. The present work explored the influence of semantic richness in auditory lexical decision. Study 1 recreated an experiment investigating semantic richness effects in concrete nouns (Goh et al., 2016). In Study 2, we expanded the stimulus set from 442 to 8,626 items, exploring the robustness of effects observed in Study 1 against a larger data set with increased diversity in both word class and other characteristics of interest. We also utilized generalized additive mixed models to investigate potential nonlinear effects. Results indicate that semantic richness effects become more nuanced and detectable when a wider set of items belonging to different parts of speech is examined. Findings are discussed in the context of models of spoken word recognition.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 650-673 |
Number of pages | 24 |
Journal | Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition |
Volume | 50 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 15 2022 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- auditory lexical decision
- semantic richness
- spoken word recognition
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics and Language