Bigger is Faster in Lexical - Visual Word Recognition

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Bigger is Faster in Lexical - Visual Word Recognition

People are faster at processing words referring to big things than we are at processing words that denote small things, reported Sara Sereno and colleagues.

This study considers "semantic size," lexical access in visual word recognition - namely, the real-world size of an object to which a word refers. It's a relatively unexplored topic.


Sereno, S., O'Donnell, P., & Sereno, M. (2009). Size matters:...

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