lexical decision
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflexicalanddecision
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lexical
adjective
uk/ˈlek.sɪ.kəl/us/ˈlek.sɪ.kəl/
relating ...
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decision
noun
uk/dɪˈsɪʒ.ən/us/dɪˈsɪʒ.ən/
a choice that you make about something after thinking about ...
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As a word recognition test, alexicaldecisiontask was used in the study.
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For the purposes of this article, this task is referred to as an accent auditorylexicaldecisiontask.
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Subjects' response time was measured in alexicaldecisiontask when two-character word stimuli were presented.
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The mechanism underlying backward priming in alexicaldecisiontask: spreading activation versus semantic matching.
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We tested these hypotheses in a study employing alexicaldecisiontask.
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Here we report results from the brain activity of very proficient early bilinguals making alexicaldecisiontask that illustrates this point.
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In addition, patients displayed slowerlexicaldecisiontimes for alcohol related words.
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The major empirical methods in comprehension research have been metalinguistic: phoneme decision,lexicaldecision, word spotting, and so on.
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But when no articulatory output was required (lexicaldecisiontask), no effect of syllable compatibility was observed.
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So, lexical effects emerged with a secondary task of either noun versus verb classification, orlexicaldecision, but not with a secondary length-judgment task.
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The basic pattern for thelexicaldecisiondata was robust and could be reproduced by a wide range of parameters.
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Likewise, the subthreshold activity for thelexicaldecision"no" responses is consistent with the experimental results.
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Some researchers have suggested that thelexicaldecisionparadigm is not an appropriate one for comparing function and content words on access times.
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The bilingual primedlexicaldecisiontask: cross-language priming disappears with speeded responses.
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Mediated priming in thelexicaldecisiontask: evidence from event-related potentials and reaction times.
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However, can long-term cross-language repetition priming be obtained when individuals perform alexicaldecisiontask at both study and test?
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Priming for bidirectionally related prime - target pairs was found for single-word and sentence primes, both for naming andlexicaldecisionacross all time courses.
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One approach uses different tasks such aslexicaldecisionand naming to look at lexical access.
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The naming task was not repeated because of its high correlation with thelexicaldecisiontask (.83) in the first grade.
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We have established this point now in alexicaldecisiontask and in a semantic task.
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