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Direct linkOzubko, Jason D.; Yonelinas, Andrew P. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
The pseudoword effect is the finding that pseudowords (i.e., pronounceable nonwords) tend to give rise to more hits and false alarms than words. The familiarity-based account attributes this effect to the fact that pseudowords lack distinctive semantic meanings, which increases the inter-item similarity of pseudowords compared to words and…
Descriptors: Semantics, Familiarity, Experiments, Word Recognition
