Is reading-aloud performance in megastudies systematically influenced by the list context?

Authors

Michael J. Cortese, University of Nebraska at OmahaFollow
Sarah Hacker, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Jocelyn Schock, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Jonathan Santo, University of Nebraska at OmahaFollow

Author ORCID Identifier

Santo - https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2057-1519

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-1-2015

Publication Title

THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

Volume

68

Issue

8

First Page

1711

Last Page

1722

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.

Comments

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Sage in The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology on August 1, 2015, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2014.974624

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Recommended Citation

Cortese, M. J., Hacker, S., Schock, J., & Santo, J. B. (2015). Is reading-aloud performance in megastudies systematically influenced by the list context? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68(8), 1711-1722. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2014.974624