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Is reading-aloud performance in megastudies systematically influenced by the list context?
THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY (2015)
  • Jonathan Bruce Santo
Abstract
To examine megastudy context effects, 585 critical words, each with a different orthographic rime, were
placed at the beginning or end of a 2614-word megastudy of reading aloud. Sixty participants (30 participants
in each condition) responded to these words. Specific predictors examined for change between
beginning and end conditions were frequency, length, feedforward rime consistency, feedforward onset
consistency, orthographic neighbourhood size, age of acquisition (AoA), and imageability. While it took
longer to respond to items at the end of the experiment than items at the beginning of the experiment,
there was very little change in the effects of the specific variables assessed. Thus, there is little evidence of
list context effects influencing the estimates of the predictor variables in large-scale megastudies.
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Publication Date
2015
Citation Information
Jonathan Bruce Santo. "Is reading-aloud performance in megastudies systematically influenced by the list context?" THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY (2015)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jonathan_santo/40/