Neighborhood frequency effects in simple and complex span: Do high-frequency neighbors help or hurt?

A word's orthographic neighborhood is the set of words that differ from the target word by one letter. Both Roodenrys (2009) and Robert et al. (Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 44, 119-125, 2015) posit that orthographic neighbors are activated when the target word is encountered in tasks such a...

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Publicado en:Memory & Cognition Vol. 52; no. 8; pp. 1871 - 1882
Autores principales: MacMillan, Molly B., Neath, Ian, Roodenrys, Steven
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Publicado: Springer Nature Nov2024
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        Task performance
        Analysis of variance
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        Language acquisition
        Repeated measures design
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          Task performance
          Analysis of variance
          Vocabulary
          Phonetics
          Language acquisition
          Repeated measures design
          Research funding
          Phonological awareness
          Descriptive statistics
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      ab: A word's orthographic neighborhood is the set of words that differ from the target word by one letter. Both Roodenrys (2009) and Robert et al. (Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 44, 119-125, 2015) posit that orthographic neighbors are activated when the target word is encountered in tasks such as simple and complex span. The two accounts differ in that the former predicts a beneficial effect of this activation, because it produces feedback activation that helps redintegrate the target word, whereas the latter predicts a detrimental effect, because the need to overcome the greater interference from the larger number of higher-frequency items reduces the processing resources available. Four experiments assess the predictions of these two accounts. Experiments 1 and 2 found a beneficial effect of having a higher- compared with a lower-frequency neighborhood in both a simple and a complex span task. Experiments 3 and 4 found no detrimental effect of having one or more neighbors with higher frequency than the target in both a simple and complex span task. Implications for the two theories are discussed.
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