TY - JOUR
T1 - Priming lexical neighbors of spoken words
T2 - Effects of competition and inhibition
AU - Goldinger, Stephen D.
AU - Luce, Paul A.
AU - Pisoni, David B.
N1 - Funding Information:
In a series of recent experiments, Lute and Pisoni (1989) investigated the effects that the number and nature of words acti-of Health grant NS-12179 to Indiana University. We This research was supported by National Institutes vated in memory have on word recognition. thank Jan Charles-Lute and Michael Cluff for their Specifically, they examined the recognition assistance in evaluating the stimuli, Richard Shiffrin, of words in different similarity neighbor-Gabriel Frommer, DeniseB eike, and anonymous hoods. A similarity neighborhood is defined reviewers for comments and suggestions, and Michael as a collection of words that are phoneti-should be addressed to the authors at the Department Dedina for his technical advice. Requests for reprints cally similar to a given stimulus word. Two of Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN key structural characteristics have been 47405. used to describe similarity neighborhoods.
PY - 1989/10
Y1 - 1989/10
N2 - Two experiments employing an auditory priming paradigm were conducted to test predictions of the Neighborhood Activation Model of spoken word recognition (Luce & Pisoni, 1989, Neighborhoods of words in the mental lexicon. Manuscript under review). Acousticphonetic similarity, neighborhood densities, and frequencies of prime and target words were manipulated. In Experiment 1, priming with low frequency, phonetically related spoken words inhibited target recognition, as predicted by the Neighborhood Activation Model. In Experiment 2, the same prime-target pairs were presented with a longer inter-stimulus interval and the effects of priming were eliminated. In both experiments, predictions derived from the Neighborhood Activation Model regarding the effects of neighborhood density and word frequency were supported. The results are discussed in terms of competing activation of lexical neighbors and the dissociation of activation and frequency in spoken word recognition.
AB - Two experiments employing an auditory priming paradigm were conducted to test predictions of the Neighborhood Activation Model of spoken word recognition (Luce & Pisoni, 1989, Neighborhoods of words in the mental lexicon. Manuscript under review). Acousticphonetic similarity, neighborhood densities, and frequencies of prime and target words were manipulated. In Experiment 1, priming with low frequency, phonetically related spoken words inhibited target recognition, as predicted by the Neighborhood Activation Model. In Experiment 2, the same prime-target pairs were presented with a longer inter-stimulus interval and the effects of priming were eliminated. In both experiments, predictions derived from the Neighborhood Activation Model regarding the effects of neighborhood density and word frequency were supported. The results are discussed in terms of competing activation of lexical neighbors and the dissociation of activation and frequency in spoken word recognition.
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U2 - 10.1016/0749-596X(89)90009-0
DO - 10.1016/0749-596X(89)90009-0
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0000322608
SN - 0749-596X
VL - 28
SP - 501
EP - 518
JO - Journal of Memory and Language
JF - Journal of Memory and Language
IS - 5
ER -