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Autor/inn/en | Mak, Matthew H. C.; Hsiao, Yaling; Nation, Kate |
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Titel | Lexical Connectivity Effects in Immediate Serial Recall of Words |
Quelle | In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 47 (2021) 12, S.1971-1997 (27 Seiten)
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Zusatzinformation | ORCID (Mak, Matthew H. C.) ORCID (Nation, Kate) |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0278-7393 |
DOI | 10.1037/xlm0001089 |
Schlagwörter | Recall (Psychology); Associative Learning; Serial Learning; Undergraduate Students; Young Adults; Foreign Countries; Semantics; Language Processing; United Kingdom |
Abstract | In six experiments, we tested whether immediate serial recall is influenced by a word's degree centrality, an index of lexical connectivity. Words of high degree centrality are associated with more words in free association norms than those of low degree centrality. Experiment 1 analyzed secondary data to explore the effect of degree centrality in wordlists containing a mixture of high- and low-degree words. High-degree words were advantaged across all serial positions, independently of other variables including word frequency. Experiment 2 replicated this finding using an expanded stimulus set. Experiment 3 used pure lists with each list containing high- or low-degree words only (e.g., HHHHHH vs. LLLLLL). Once again, high-degree words were better recalled across all serial positions. In Experiment 4, each wordlist alternated between high and low-degree words (e.g., HLHLHL and LHLHLH). Recall of low-degree words was facilitated by the neighboring high-degree words, abolishing the overall high-degree advantage. Experiment 5 used a within-participant design and replicated the findings from Experiments 3 and 4 such that the high-degree advantage in pure lists disappeared in alternating lists. Experiment 6 compared high and low frequency words in pure lists while controlling for degree centrality between the item sets. A high-frequency advantage emerged, suggesting that the effects of frequency and degree centrality are separable. We conclude that degree centrality is a distinct psycholinguistic variable that affects serial recall as both: (1) an item-level characteristic such that high (vs. low) degree words have greater accessibility in the lexicon; and (2) an interitem property such that high-degree words facilitate the recall of neighboring words by enhancing the formation of associative links. (As Provided). |
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Update | 2024/1/01 |