Opposing effects of semantic diversity in lexical and semantic relatedness decisions.

J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform · 2015 · PMC4378535 · PMID 25751041

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Reaction times There was a main effect of SemD that was highly significant by subjects and marginal by items, F 1 (1,22) = 9.99, p = .005; F 2 (1,235) = 2.80, p = .096: Responses to high SemD words were on average 12 ms faster than responses to low SemD words.

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