Practice effects in large-scale visual word recognition studies : a lexical decision study on 14,000 Dutch mono- and disyllabic words and nonwords

In recent years, psycholinguistics has seen a remarkable growth of research based on the analysis of data from large-scale studies of word recognition, in particular lexical decision and word naming. We present the data of the Dutch Lexicon Project (DLP) in which a group of 39 participants made lexical decisions to 14,000 words and the same number of nonwords. To examine whether the extensive practice precludes comparison with the traditional short experiments, we look at the differences between the first and the last sesssion, compare the results with the English Lexicon Project (ELP) and the... Mehr ...