October 2013
Intermediate to advanced
518 pages
16h 20m
English
Michael K. Tanenhaus and Curt Burgess, University of Rochester
Mark Seidenberg, McGill University
This chapter briefly reviews the results of the cross-modal literature and evaluates the extent to which multiple access is an artifact of backward priming. In order to use lexical ambiguity as a window on the interface between context and lexical access, one needs experimental techniques that can be used to trace the availability of the information which becomes available during the word recognition process. Cross-modal lexical priming is one of the few candidates for such a methodology and it has been used extensively to study the effects of context ...
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