Influence of neighborhood size and exposure duration on visual-word recognition Evidence with the yes/no and the go/no-go lexical decision task 2 citations ? 2 self

Abstract:  We present two experiments that measured lexical decision latencies and errors to words with few or many "orthographic neighbors" (i.e., Coltheart's N). The main goal of the study was to examine whether or not the neighborhood size effect in a lexical decision task could be affected by the exposure duration of the stimulus item (unlimited vs. limited time exposure, 150 msec plus a backward mask) and the type of decision involved in the task (yes/no vs. go/no-go lexical decision task). In the yes/no task, the results showed a facilitative neighborhood size effect for low-frequency which did not interact with exposure duration (Experiment 1). In contrast, in the go/no-go task (in this task, participants are instructed to respond as quickly as they can when a word is presented and not to respond if a nonword is presented), the neighborhood size effect for low-frequency words (and for nonwords) was greater under limited viewing time (Experiment 2). In addition, the wordfrequency effect was...