Orthographic and associative neighborhood density effects: What is shared, what is different?
Words with many orthographic neighbors elicit a larger N400 than words with few orthographic neighbors. This has been interpreted as stronger overall semantic activation due to orthographic neighbors activating their semantic representations. To investigate this claim, we manipulated the number of a...
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ir-10336-229072022-05-02T12:37:20Z Orthographic and associative neighborhood density effects: What is shared, what is different? Müller, Oliver Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni Carreiras, Manuel Association ERP Language Orthographic neighbors Semantic representation Visual word recognition Words with many orthographic neighbors elicit a larger N400 than words with few orthographic neighbors. This has been interpreted as stronger overall semantic activation due to orthographic neighbors activating their semantic representations. To investigate this claim, we manipulated the number of associates of words (NoA), a variable directly affecting overall semantic activation, and compared this to the ERP effect of the number of orthographic neighbors (N) in a lexical decision task. Words with high NoA and with high N produced a very similar increase of the N400. In addition, a higher N increased the amplitude of the Late Positive Complex. The common N400 effect suggests that N affects semantic activation, like NoA does. The late positive effect specific to N could occur because words with few orthographic neighbors initially elicit little activity in the orthographic system, thereby resembling nonwords, which leads to distinct processing. © 2010 Society for Psychophysiological Research. 2010 2020-05-25T23:58:40Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 00485772 14698986 https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/22907 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00960.x eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess application/pdf Blackwell Publishing Inc. instname:Universidad del Rosario |
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Words with many orthographic neighbors elicit a larger N400 than words with few orthographic neighbors. This has been interpreted as stronger overall semantic activation due to orthographic neighbors activating their semantic representations. To investigate this claim, we manipulated the number of associates of words (NoA), a variable directly affecting overall semantic activation, and compared this to the ERP effect of the number of orthographic neighbors (N) in a lexical decision task. Words with high NoA and with high N produced a very similar increase of the N400. In addition, a higher N increased the amplitude of the Late Positive Complex. The common N400 effect suggests that N affects semantic activation, like NoA does. The late positive effect specific to N could occur because words with few orthographic neighbors initially elicit little activity in the orthographic system, thereby resembling nonwords, which leads to distinct processing. © 2010 Society for Psychophysiological Research. |
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Müller, Oliver Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni Carreiras, Manuel |
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Müller, Oliver Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni Carreiras, Manuel |
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Orthographic and associative neighborhood density effects: What is shared, what is different? |
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Orthographic and associative neighborhood density effects: What is shared, what is different? |
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Orthographic and associative neighborhood density effects: What is shared, what is different? |
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orthographic and associative neighborhood density effects: what is shared, what is different? |
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Blackwell Publishing Inc. |
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https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/22907 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00960.x |
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