Citation

Schmauder AR, Kennison SM, Clifton C. J. Exp. Psychol. Learn. Mem. Cogn. 1991; 17(6): 1188-1192.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, American Psychological Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1838389

Abstract

Schmauder (1991), studying eye movements during reading, cross-modal naming, and cross-modal lexical decision (CMLD) tasks, failed to find evidence of verb argument structure complexity as Shapiro, Zurif, and Grimshaw (1987) had reported for the CMLD task. Shapiro, Brookins, Gordon, and Nagel (1991) suggested that Schmauder did not detect the effect in the CMLD task because the monosyllabic secondary lexical decision (LD) probes she used did not produce enough processing load to detect an effect of argument structure complexity. The present experiment compared the LD probes used by Schmauder with the LD probes used by Shapiro et al. (1987) and failed to find any evidence for the argument structure complexity effect for either type of probe.

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