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Direct linkClay, Felix; Bowers, Jeffrey S.; Davis, Colin J.; Hanley, Derek A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2007
Semantic and orthographic learning of new words was investigated with the help of the picture-word interference (PWI) task. In this version of the Stroop task, picture naming is delayed by the simultaneous presentation of a semantically related as opposed to an unrelated distractor word (a specific PWI effect), as well as by an unrelated word…
Descriptors: Semantics, Vocabulary Development, Adults, Verbal Stimuli
McNamara, Danielle S.; McDaniel, Mark A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2004
In 3 experiments, the authors examined the role of knowledge activation in the suppression of contextually irrelevant meanings for ambiguous homographs. In Experiments 1 and 2, participants with greater baseball knowledge, regardless of reading skill, more quickly suppressed the irrelevant meaning of ambiguous words in baseball-related, but not…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Sentences, Inhibition, Reading Skills
