TY - JOUR
T1 - On the joint effects of repetition and stimulus quality in lexical decision
T2 - Looking to the past for a new way forward
AU - Blais, Chris
AU - O'Malley, Shannon
AU - Besner, Derek
N1 - Funding Information:
Correspondence should be addressed to Derek Besner, Psychology Department, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1. E-mail: dbesner@uwaterloo.ca We thank Kathy Rastle and several anonymous reviewers for helpful comments. This work was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) to C.B., a doctoral fellowship from NSERC to S.O., and NSERC Grant A0998 to D.B.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Two experiments investigated the joint effects of stimulus quality and repetition in the context of lexical decision. Experiment 1 yielded an interaction between repetition and stimulus quality for words (but additive effects for nonwords) when the lag was short, replicating previous reports. Experiment 2, with a much longer lag than Experiment 1, yielded main effects of stimulus quality and repetition, but these factors no longer interact. The joint effects of stimulus quality and repetition for words as a function of lag can be understood in terms of two loci for repetition effects: one short-term and one long-term. The transient effect of repetition is on activation levels in the lexicons (and in which the input lexicon, but not beyond, is affected by stimulus quality), whereas the long-term effect is on the strength of two-way connections between lexical-lexical and lexical-semantic modules. These data and others, taken together with the account, provide a new way of thinking about a 30-year-old conundrum.
AB - Two experiments investigated the joint effects of stimulus quality and repetition in the context of lexical decision. Experiment 1 yielded an interaction between repetition and stimulus quality for words (but additive effects for nonwords) when the lag was short, replicating previous reports. Experiment 2, with a much longer lag than Experiment 1, yielded main effects of stimulus quality and repetition, but these factors no longer interact. The joint effects of stimulus quality and repetition for words as a function of lag can be understood in terms of two loci for repetition effects: one short-term and one long-term. The transient effect of repetition is on activation levels in the lexicons (and in which the input lexicon, but not beyond, is affected by stimulus quality), whereas the long-term effect is on the strength of two-way connections between lexical-lexical and lexical-semantic modules. These data and others, taken together with the account, provide a new way of thinking about a 30-year-old conundrum.
KW - Lexical decision
KW - Repetition
KW - Stimulus quality
KW - Word recognition
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U2 - 10.1080/17470218.2011.591535
DO - 10.1080/17470218.2011.591535
M3 - Article
C2 - 21819278
AN - SCOPUS:84857088936
SN - 1747-0218
VL - 64
SP - 2368
EP - 2382
JO - Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
JF - Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
IS - 12
ER -