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      The impact of feedback semantics in visual word recognition: number-of-features effects in lexical decision and naming tasks.

      Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
      Decision Making, Feedback, Humans, Phonetics, Reaction Time, Recognition (Psychology), Regression Analysis, Semantics, Visual Perception, Vocabulary

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          The notion of feedback activation from semantics to both orthography and phonology has recently been used to explain a number of semantic effects in visual word recognition, including polysemy effects (Hino & Lupker, 1996; Pexman & Lupker, 1999) and synonym effects (Pecher, 2001). In the present research, we tested an account based on feedback activation by investigating a new semantic variable: number of features (NOF). Words with high NOF (e.g., LION) should activate richer semantic representations than do words with low NOF (e.g., LIME). As a result, the feedback activation from semantics to orthographic and phonological representations should be greater for high-NOF words, which should produce superior lexical decision task (LDT) and naming task performance. The predicted facilitory NOF effects were observed in both LDT and naming.

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          12412895
          10.3758/BF03196311

          Chemistry
          Decision Making,Feedback,Humans,Phonetics,Reaction Time,Recognition (Psychology),Regression Analysis,Semantics,Visual Perception,Vocabulary

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