The Relatedness-of-Meaning Effect for Ambiguous Words in Lexical-Decision Tasks: When Does Relatedness Matter?
Effects of the number of meanings (NOM) and the relatedness of those meanings (ROM) were examined for Japanese Katakana words using a lexical-decision task. In Experiment 1, only a NOM advantage was observed. In Experiment 2, the same Katakana words produced a ROM advantage when Kanji words and nonw...
| Publicado en: | Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology Vol. 64; no. 3; pp. 180 - 197 |
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Canadian Psychological Association
September 2010
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