Research article summary (published 30 Dec 1987):

Low-constraint facilitation in lexical decision with single-word contexts.

Full Abstract

Single-word, low-constraint adjective contexts were used to "prime" lexical decision to noun targets in Serbo-Croat. Semantically congruent situations consisted of adjective-noun pairs that were not highly predictable but were nonetheless plausible (e.g., GOOD-AUNT). Semantically incongruent situations used pairs that were implausible (e.g., SLOW-COAT). All adjective-noun pairs were grammatically congruent and were compared with a neutral XXX baseline. In Experiment 1, at a stimulus onset asynchrony of 300 ms, congruous situations showed 59 ms of facilitation while incongruous situations did not differ from the baseline. The same pattern was repeated in Experiment 2, at a stimulus onset asynchrony of 800 ms. Congruous situations were facilitated 67 ms. Results are discussed in terms of a message-level coherence check in Forster's (1979) model of autonomous levels of language processing.

Author information

Author/s: Lukatela, G (G); Carello, C (C); Kostic, A (A); Turvey, M T (MT);

Affiliation: University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

Grants: HD-01994 (Agency:NICHD NIH HHS) ; HD-08495 (Agency:NICHD NIH HHS)

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

Journal: The American journal of psychology (Am J Psychol), published in UNITED STATES. (Language: eng)

Reference: 1988-; vol 101 (issue 1) : pp 15-29

Dates: Created 1988/06/03; Completed 1988/06/03; Revised 2007/11/14;

PMID: 3364614, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: )

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Cues Decision Making Humans Linguistics

Models, Psychological Reaction Time Reading Semantics

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