Research article summary (published 30 Jan 1990):

Lexical effects in phonemic processing: facilitatory or inhibitory.

Full Abstract

This article addresses the questions of how and when lexical information influences phoneme identification in a series of phoneme-monitoring experiments in which conflicting predictions of autonomous and interactive models were evaluated. Strong facilitatory lexical effects (reflected by large differences in detection latencies to targets in words and matched nonwords) were found only when targets came after the uniqueness point of the target-bearing word. Furthermore, no evidence was obtained for lexically mediated inhibition on phoneme identification as predicted by the interactive activation model TRACE. These results taken together point to strong limitations in the way in which lexical information can affect the perception of unambiguous speech.

Author information

Author/s: Frauenfelder, U H (UH); Segui, J (J); Dijkstra, T (T);

Affiliation: Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform), published in UNITED STATES. (Language: eng)

Reference: 1990-Feb; vol 16 (issue 1) : pp 77-91

Dates: Created 1990/03/22; Completed 1990/03/22; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 2137525, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: )

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Adult Attention Humans Mental Recall Paired-Associate Learning

Phonetics Reaction Time Reading Semantics Speech Perception

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