Exploring orthographic neighborhood size effects in a computational model of Chinese character naming.
Orthographic neighborhood ( N ) size effects have been extensively studied in English consistently producing a facilitatory effect in word naming tasks. In contrast, several recent studies on Chinese character naming have demonstrated an inhibitory effect of neighborhood size. Response latencies ten...
| Published in: | Cognitive Psychology Vol. 91; pp. 1 - 24 |
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Academic Press Inc.
Dec2016
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