Words encountered in diverse contexts are recognized more accurately in a pseudolexical decision task¶

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q3 i? Subjects were significantly more accurate at recognizing novel words seen across highly variable contexts than those seen in redundant contexts. → Johns 2016

Evidence¶

Johns 2016¶

Johns, B. T., Dye, M., & Jones, M. N. (2016). The influence of contextual diversity on word learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-015-0980-7

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In the experiment's pseudolexical decision task, average accuracy was 83.9% across conditions, and "subjects were significantly more accurate at recognizing targets seen across highly variable contexts" than those trained on uniform passages. No effect size is printed.

"As predicted, subjects were significantly more accurate at recognizing targets seen across highly variable contexts [t(86) = 3.561, p < 0.001] (Fig. 4; left)."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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• Uniform (redundant) contexts yield higher semantic similarity ratings than diverse contexts — related