The Influence of Closeness Centrality on Lexical Processing
dc.contributor.author | Goldstein, Rutherford | |
dc.contributor.author | Vitevitch, Michael S. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-11-16T19:07:21Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-11-16T19:07:21Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-09-26 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Goldstein, R., & Vitevitch, M. S. (2017). The influence of closeness centrality on lexical processing. Frontiers in psychology, 8, 1683. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/27384 | |
dc.description.abstract | The present study examined how the network science measure known as closeness centrality (which measures the average distance between a node and all other nodes in the network) influences lexical processing. In the mental lexicon, a word such as CAN has high closeness centrality, because it is close to many other words in the lexicon. Whereas, a word such as CURE has low closeness centrality because it is far from other words in the lexicon. In an auditory lexical decision task (Experiment 1) participants responded more quickly to words with high closeness centrality. In Experiment 2 an auditory lexical decision task was again used, but with a wider range of stimulus characteristics. Although, there was no main effect of closeness centrality in Experiment 2, an interaction between closeness centrality and frequency of occurrence was observed on reaction times. The results are explained in terms of partial activation gradually strengthening over time word-forms that are centrally located in the phonological network. | en_US |
dc.publisher | Frontiers Media | en_US |
dc.rights | © 2017 Goldstein and Vitevitch. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_US |
dc.subject | Network science | en_US |
dc.subject | Lexical search | en_US |
dc.subject | Spoken word recognition | en_US |
dc.subject | Closeness centrality | en_US |
dc.title | The Influence of Closeness Centrality on Lexical Processing | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
kusw.kuauthor | Goldstein, Rutherford | |
kusw.kuauthor | Vitevitch, Michael S. | |
kusw.kudepartment | Psychology | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01683 | en_US |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | en_US |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | en_US |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | en_US |
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