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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Autores Principales: Müller, Oliver, Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni, Carreiras, Manuel
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Lenguaje:Inglés (English)
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Inc. 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/22907
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00960.x
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spelling 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
institution EdocUR - Universidad del Rosario
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language Inglés (English)
topic Association
ERP
Language
Orthographic neighbors
Semantic representation
Visual word recognition
spellingShingle Association
ERP
Language
Orthographic neighbors
Semantic representation
Visual word recognition
Müller, Oliver
Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni
Carreiras, Manuel
Orthographic and associative neighborhood density effects: What is shared, what is different?
description 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.
format Artículo (Article)
author Müller, Oliver
Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni
Carreiras, Manuel
author_facet Müller, Oliver
Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni
Carreiras, Manuel
author_sort Müller, Oliver
title Orthographic and associative neighborhood density effects: What is shared, what is different?
title_short Orthographic and associative neighborhood density effects: What is shared, what is different?
title_full Orthographic and associative neighborhood density effects: What is shared, what is different?
title_fullStr Orthographic and associative neighborhood density effects: What is shared, what is different?
title_full_unstemmed Orthographic and associative neighborhood density effects: What is shared, what is different?
title_sort orthographic and associative neighborhood density effects: what is shared, what is different?
publisher Blackwell Publishing Inc.
publishDate 2010
url https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/22907
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00960.x
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