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Lexical Decision Task for Studying Written Word Recognition in Adults with and without Dementia or Mild Cognitive Impairment
Published on: June 25, 2019
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Cognition ratings for 8826 english words
Hannah T Corenblum1, Penny M Pexman2
1Department of Psychology, Western University, London, Canada. hcorenbl@uwo.ca.
Behavior Research Methods
|May 29, 2025
Summary
Cognition ratings significantly impact how we process abstract words. Words perceived as more cognitive lead to faster and more accurate responses in language tasks.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Psycholinguistics
- Neuroscience of Language
Background:
- Abstract words often denote internal cognitive states or products.
- Mental state information is crucial for grounding abstract meaning in semantic representation.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the role of cognition in abstract word meaning.
- To test if cognition ratings explain unique variance in lexical-semantic task performance.
Main Methods:
- Collected cognition ratings for over 8000 English words.
- Analyzed the relationship between cognition ratings and behavioral responses in lexical-semantic tasks.
- Controlled for other lexical and semantic variables.
Main Results:
- A significant facilitative effect of cognition ratings on behavioral responses was found.
- Words rated as more cognitive led to faster and more accurate task performance.
- This effect was particularly pronounced for more abstract words.
Conclusions:
- Cognition plays a direct role in the processing of abstract word meanings.
- Findings support a multidimensional model of semantic representation.
- Highlights a novel behavioral effect linking cognition to abstract semantics.
Keywords:
Cognition ratingsLexical decision taskSemantic decision taskSemantic cognitionWord knowledge taskWord ratingsMore Related Videos
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