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| Research article summary (published 30 Jan 2003): |
Semantic effects in word naming: evidence from English and Japanese Kanji.
Full Abstract
Three experiments investigated whether reading aloud is affected by a semantic variable, imageability. The first two experiments used English, and the third experiment used Japanese Kanji as a way of testing the generality of the findings across orthographies. The results replicated the earlier findings that readers were slower and more error prone in reading low-frequency exception words when they were low in imageability than when they were high in imageability (Strain, Patterson, & Seidenberg, 1995). This result held for both English and Kanji even when age of acquisition was taken into account as a possible confounding variable, and the imageability effect was stronger in Kanji compared to English.
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Author/s: Shibahara, Naoki (N); Zorzi, Marco (M); Hill, Martin P (MP); Wydell, Taeko (T); Butterworth, Brian (B);
Affiliation: Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK. n.shibahara@ucl.ac.uk
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Publication Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Journal: The Quarterly journal of experimental psychology. A, Human experimental psychology (Q J Exp Psychol A), published in England. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2003-Feb; vol 56 (issue 2) : pp 263-86
Dates: Created 2003/03/04; Completed 2003/04/04; Revised 2006/11/15;
PMID: 12613564, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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