http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/services/Feed ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:9710 We investigate the effects of word characteristics on episodic recognition memory using analyses that avoid “language-as-a-fixed-effect” fallacy. Our results demonstrate the importance of modeling word variability and show that episodic memory for words is strongly affected by item noise, as measured by the orthographic similarity between experimental items. We found that the word frequency effect was not related to the item noise effects, whereas the effect of neighborhood density, which measures the similarity of a word to all other words in the lexicon, was greatly attenuated when item noise was controlled. Our results are also consistent with a likelihood based recognition decision mechanism that produces a mirror effect by taking into account item and subject characteristics. 2012-07-03T00:50:09.843Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:2002 The same 500 words were presented in 6 different word identification tasks (Experiment 1: lexical decision, semantic categorization, and 3 speeded naming tasks; Experiment 2: delayed naming). Reaction time (RT) distributions were estimated for each task and analyses tested for the effects of word frequency and animacy on various parameters of the RT distribution. Low frequency words yielded more skewed distributions than high frequency words in all tasks except delayed naming. The differential skew was most marked for tasks that required lexical discrimination. The semantic categorization task yielded highly skewed distributions for all words, but the word frequency effect was due to shifts in the location of the RT distributions rather than changes in skew. The results are used to evaluate the relative contributions of a common lexical access process and task-specific processes to performance in lexical discrimination and naming tasks. 2012-05-28T04:53:44.789Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:1217 The same 500 words were presented in 6 different word identification tasks (Experiment 1: lexical decision, semantic categorization, and 3 speeded naming tasks; Experiment 2: delayed naming). Reaction time (RT) distributions were estimated for each task and analyses tested for the effects of word frequency and animacy on various parameters of the RT distribution. Low frequency words yielded more skewed distributions than high frequency words in all tasks except delayed naming. The differential skew was most marked for tasks that required lexical discrimination. The semantic categorization task yielded highly skewed distributions for all words, but the word frequency effect was due to shifts in the location of the RT distributions rather than changes in skew. The results are used to evaluate the relative contributions of a common lexical access process and task-specific processes to performance in lexical discrimination and naming tasks. 2010-04-27T06:39:55.868Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:842 In this paper I present a collection of names of soups containing words referring to countries, nationalities, and ethnic groups. Among the problems brought up is distinguishing between a name and explanatory words after the name. A possible explanation is put forth for why some ethnomythic and toponymic terms were not found alone in some soup names, but only with other terms, such as names of ingredients. I briefly discuss several other points about the forms of the names, such as the difference between the construction X soup and soup X style. 2010-04-27T06:22:36.121Z ]]>