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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION
Volume 42, Issue 3, Pages 394-410Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000139
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network science; word recognition; STM; network components; lexical islands
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Network science uses mathematical techniques to study complex systems such as the phonological lexicon (Vitevitch, 2008). The phonological network consists of a giant component (the largest connected component of the network) and lexical islands (smaller groups of words that are connected to each other, but not to the giant component). To determine if the component that a word resided in influenced lexical processing, language-related tasks (naming, lexical decision, and serial recall) were used to compare the processing of words from the giant component and from lexical islands. Results showed that words from lexical islands were recognized more quickly and recalled more accurately than words from the giant component. These findings can be accounted for via the diffusion of activation across a network. Implications for models of spoken word recognition and network science are also discussed.
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