@article{ref1,
title="No enemies in the neighborhood: absence of inhibitory neighborhood effects in lexical decision and semantic categorization",
journal="Journal of experimental psychology: learning, memory, and cognition",
year="1996",
author="Forster, K. I. and Shen, D.",
volume="22",
number="3",
pages="696-713",
abstract="The effect of neighborhood density on visual word recognition was found to be facilitatory for words but inhibitory for nonwords in 3 lexical-decision experiments. However, the facilitation virtually disappeared when the task was changed to semantic categorization (animal vs. nonanimal), despite the presence of a strong frequency effect. None of these experiments showed a consistent inhibitory effect of a higher frequency neighbor. The absence of inhibitory effects suggests that competition does not play a key role in visual word recognition. The data also suggest that the neighborhood density effect is not an access effect but is a task-dependent effect instead.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0278-7393",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}