Wang, Hua Chen, Savage, Greg, Gaskell, Mark Gareth orcid.org/0000-0001-8325-1427 et al. (3 more authors) (2016) Sleep promotes the emergence of lexical competition in visual word recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. ISSN 1069-9384
Abstract
Lexical competition processes are widely viewed as the hallmark of visual word recognition, but little is known about the factors that promote their emergence. This study examined for the first time whether sleep may play a role in inducing these effects. A group of 27 participants learned novel written words, such as banara, at 8 am and were tested on their learning at 8 pm the same day (AM group), while 29 participants learned the words at 8 pm and were tested at 8 am the following day (PM group). Both groups were retested after 24 hours. Using a semantic categorisation task, we showed that lexical competition effects, as indexed by slowed responses to existing neighbor words such as banana, emerged 12 hours later in the PM group who have had slept after learning but not in the AM group. After 24 hours the competition effects were evident in both groups. These findings have important implications for theories of orthographic learning and broader neurobiological models of memory consolidation.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Psychonomic Society, Inc. 2016. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Psychology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 01 Nov 2016 14:44 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 13:20 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-016-1182-7 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.3758/s13423-016-1182-7 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:106851 |
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