Zusammenfassung. Um der Frage nach der Wirkung emotionaler Valenz auf die Wortverarbeitung nachzugehen wurde ein Instrument konstruiert, in dem auf positiv und negativ valente Wörter sowie auf neutrale Kontrollwörter reagiert werden muss. Die Konstruktion ...
Zusammenfassung. Die Wirkung alternierender Schreibung auf Benennungen und lexikalische Entscheidungen wurde im Hinblick auf die Frage untersucht, inwieweit die Störungen alle Wörter gleichermaßen oder insbesondere seltene Wörter betreffen. Im Gegensatz ...
Zusammenfassung. Die Verarbeitung abstrakter Begriffe ist ein wichtiger Bestandteil der sprachlichen und kognitiven Entwicklung, der gerade in der späteren Kindheit relevant ist. In der vorliegenden Studie wurde ein Reaktionszeitexperiment zum ...Processing of concrete and abstract nouns in school-aged childrenAbstract. Processing of abstract words is an important component of linguistic and cognitive development, especially during the last years of childhood. The present study investigates ...
The Semantic Representation of Emotion Terms in Child DevelopmentAbstract. Emotion terms are part of the emotive vocabulary represented in the mental lexicon. The acquisition of emotion terms is a relevant domain ...
One key issue for any computational model of visual word recognition is the choice of an input coding scheme for assigning letter position. Recent research has shown that transposed-letter similarity effects occur even when the transposed letters are not ...
To investigate the language-specific or language-integrated nature of bilingual lexical processing in different task contexts, we studied how bilinguals process nonwords that differ in their relative resemblance to the bilinguals’ two languages in ...
We review recent evidence indicating that researchers in experimental psychology may have used suboptimal estimates of word frequency. Word frequency measures should be based on a corpus of at least 20 million words that contains language participants in ...
In Indo-European languages, letter position coding is particularly noisy in middle positions (e.g., judge and jugde look very similar), but not in the initial letter position (e.g., judge vs. ujdge). Here we focus on a language (Thai) which, potentially, ...
The analysis of the interaction between repetition priming and age of acquisition may be used to shed further light on the question of which stages of elaboration are affected by this psycholinguistic variable. In the present study we applied this method ...
The vast majority of neural and computational models of visual-word recognition assume that lexical access is achieved via the activation of abstract letter identities. Thus, a word’s overall shape should play no role in this process. In the present ...
Abstract. In masked priming lexical decision experiments, there is a matched-case identity advantage for nonwords, but not for words (e.g., ERTAR-ERTAR < ertar-ERTAR; ALTAR-ALTAR = altar-ALTAR). This dissociation has been interpreted ...
Abstract. Most words in books and digital media are written in lowercase. The primacy of this format has been brought out by different experiments showing that common words are identified faster in lowercase (e.g., molecule) than in ...
Abstract. In Western cultures where people read and write from left to right, time is represented along a spatial continuum that goes from left to right (past to future), known as the mental timeline (MTL). In ...