主催: The Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology
To evaluate the effectiveness of the existing lexical decision tasks including the conventional one, three different definitions of word were inserted in the instructions for the experiment. Participants had to judge whether a stimulus on the screen was a word, whether it had a meaning or whether they had ever seen it. While the typical frequency effects were found significant in all three definitions, the mean RT was the longest for the conventional word/nonword decision. In the meaning and familiarity decision participants were faster than the conventional no-definition condition. The results suggest that the conventional instructions are not the fastest at least for Korean, and the best definition for word recognition studies may be different from language to language.
