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Lexical competition in the flankers task revisited.
Aaron Vandendaele1, Jonathan Grainger2,3
1Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Plos One
|September 28, 2023
Summary
Orthographic neighbor flankers facilitate word reading in lexical decision tasks but interfere in perceptual identification tasks. This suggests lexical competition effects dominate when word identification is required.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Psycholinguistics
- Reading Science
Background:
- The flanker task is widely used to study visual word recognition.
- Orthographic neighbors can influence target word processing.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the impact of orthographic neighbor flankers on target word processing across different tasks.
- To differentiate between sublexical orthographic effects and lexical competition effects.
Main Methods:
- Replication of previous findings using the lexical decision task.
- Experiment using perceptual identification task with orthographic neighbor flankers.
- Experiment including bigram flanker conditions.
Main Results:
- Orthographic neighbor flankers facilitated lexical decisions.
- Orthographic neighbor flankers interfered with perceptual identification.
- Bigram flankers facilitated perceptual identification.
Conclusions:
- Lexical competition effects emerge in word identification tasks, overriding sublexical orthographic facilitation.
- The inhibitory influence of lexical competition is stronger with whole-word flankers.
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