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The effect of semantic distance in yes/no and go/no-go semantic categorization tasks.
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The effect of semantic distance (Lund & Burgess, 1996) was examined in three semantic categorization experiments. Experiment 1, a yes/no task that required participants to make animal/nonanimal judgments by responding to both sets of stimuli (Forster & ... (Full abstract text below) Published 2003Jan
in Journal: Mem Cognit
(Language : eng)
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2003 Jan;31(1):100-13
The effect of semantic distance in yes/no and go/no-go semantic categorization tasks.
Siakaluk PD, Buchanan L, Westbury C
University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA.
The effect of semantic distance (Lund & Burgess, 1996) was examined in three semantic categorization experiments. Experiment 1, a yes/no task that required participants to make animal/nonanimal judgments by responding to both sets of stimuli (Forster & Shen, 1996), revealed no effect of semantic distance. Experiment 2, a go/no-go task that required participants to respond to only the experimental (i.e., nonanimal) items, revealed a large effect of semantic distance. In addition, response latencies were longer and error rates were lower to the experimental items in Experiment 2 than to those in Experiment 1. These findings were replicated in Experiment 3, in which semantic distance and task condition were manipulated within subjects. We conclude that these results are consistent with (1) the view that the go/no-go tasks elicited more extensive processing of the experimental items and (2) a connectionist account of semantic activation, whereby processing is facilitated by the presence of semantic neighbors.
PMID : 12699147 [PubMed - Indexed for MEDLINE]
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| First Name | LastName | Initials |
| Paul D | Siakaluk | PD |
| Lori | Buchanan | L |
| Chris | Westbury | C |
Affiliation: University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA.
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