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Semantic effects in lexical access: Evidence from single-word naming
Lee Wurm1, Douglas Vakoch2, Joanna Aycock1
1a Wayne State University, Detroit, USA.
Cognition & Emotion
|May 3, 2018
Summary
Semantic and emotional word characteristics, specifically danger and usefulness, influence early word recognition. This challenges the view that such effects are post-perceptual, impacting cognitive psychology.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Psycholinguistics
- Neuroscience
Background:
- Cognitive psychology traditionally views semantic and emotional word effects as post-perceptual.
- Existing evidence for early effects uses the less-than-ideal lexical decision task.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate early semantic and emotional influences on word recognition.
- To examine if word referent characteristics affect naming times independently of other word properties.
Main Methods:
- Utilized a single-word naming task where participants repeated heard words.
- Measured naming times while controlling for word length, familiarity, and other linguistic factors.
Main Results:
- Word referent danger and usefulness significantly predicted naming times.
- These semantic and emotional effects were independent of established word characteristics.
Conclusions:
- Semantic and emotional dimensions (danger, usefulness) impact word recognition very early.
- This suggests an adaptive benefit for rapid classification along these dimensions.
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