Lexico-semantic structure and the word-frequency effect in recognition memory
- 8 March 2007
- journal article
- Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Learning & Memory
- Vol. 14 (3) , 204-213
- https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.363207
Abstract
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.Keywords
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