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Direct linkGilbert, Rebecca A.; Davis, Matthew H.; Gaskell, M. Gareth; Rodd, Jennifer M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
Research has shown that adults' lexical-semantic representations are surprisingly malleable. For instance, the interpretation of ambiguous words (e.g., bark) is influenced by experience such that recently encountered meanings become more readily available (Rodd et al., 2016, 2013). However, the mechanism underlying this word-meaning priming effect…
Descriptors: Ambiguity (Semantics), Priming, Listening, Reading
