The Go/No-Go Lexical Decision Task without Nonword Trials

Abstract

In studies on word recogntion, tasks which ask participants to make yes-no judgments have been known to bias their performance. As an alternative, the Go/no-go task was recently introduced in which 'no' responses are not required. This task, however, does not appear to be able to completely remove the response selection process. We proposed a new task, a variant of the Go/no-go task, which does not include nonword trials. Advantages and disadvantages were discussed for the yes/no lexical decision task and the go/no-go task.