Day 12 Psyc 432

Frequency effect, neighborhood effects, and context effects

• - Words are recognized with both bottom-up and top-down information stimultaneously
• - Recognition happens fast and online
• -Initial information in a word has priority because it comes first

words that begin the same ( Elevator, elephant)

Cohort sets are activated stimultaneously, but this set decreases as additional input is received over time.

a stimulus with more than 1 meaning.

A word with more than 1 meaning

Participants presented with lexical ambiguities. There was some activation for different possible word meanings despite context...supports the modular view.

• -Online: information intially activated when you process some stimuli
• -Offline- after you have plenty of time to think about it, what is your interpretation?

• -Strength of context
• -meaning dominance

frequency of meaning influences what meanings are activated (ex. bank is usually thought of as financial instituion, bug usually insect or computer bug)