Lexico-semantic structure and the word-frequency effect in recognition memory | Zendy

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Lexico-semantic structure and the word-frequency effect in recognition memory

Author(s) -

Joseph D. Monaco,

L. F. Abbott,

Michael J. Kahana

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

learning and memory

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.228

H-Index - 136

eISSN - 1549-5485

pISSN - 1072-0502

DOI - 10.1101/lm.363207

Subject(s) - word lists by frequency , word (group theory) , natural language processing , computer science , artificial intelligence , semantic memory , encoding (memory) , semantics (computer science) , speech recognition , recognition memory , word recognition , association (psychology) , psychology , cognition , linguistics , philosophy , reading (process) , neuroscience , sentence , programming language , psychotherapist

The word-frequency effect (WFE) in recognition memory refers to the finding that more rare words are better recognized than more common words. We demonstrate that a familiarity-discrimination model operating on data from a semantic word-association space yields a robust WFE in data on both hit rates and false-alarm rates. Our modeling results suggest that word frequency is encoded in the semantic structure of language, and that this encoding contributes to the WFE observed in item-recognition experiments.

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