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Adelman, James S. and Brown, G. D. A. (Gordon D. A.) (2008) Postscript : deviations from the predictions of serial search. Psychological Review, Vol.115 (No.1). pp. 228-229. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.115.1.228
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Abstract
W. S. Murray and K. I. Forster (see record 2004-15929-006) claimed that rank frequency provided a better account of lexical decision times than either log frequency or power law frequency, the latter being dismissed on the grounds of overflexibility. We (J. S. Adelman & G. D. A. Brown, see record 2008-00265-012) argued that (a) Murray and Forster's (2004) use of the relatively small Kučera and Francis (1967) word frequency counts biased the estimates of rank; (b) the superiority in fit of the power law (and of some other functions) could not all be attributed to overflexibility in the manner Murray and Forster (2004) claimed; and (c) bootstrapping analyses designed to take flexibility into account gave evidence of systematic deviations from several theoretically motivated functional forms, including rank and power, but not from some generalizations of the power function. We concluded that the data could not be taken as support for serial search models. Murray and Forster (2008; see record 2008-00265-015) have suggested that our results do not contradict the rank hypothesis (and in fact support it). The systematic and task-independent discrepancy between model predictions and data suggests to us--in the absence of an extended model demonstrated to rectify the discrepancy--that the case for serial search has yet to be adequately made. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)
| Item Type: | Journal Item | ||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Language and languages -- Word frequency, Word recognition, Eye -- Movements -- Psychological aspects, Human information processing, Cognition, Visual perception | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Psychological Review | ||||
| Publisher: | American Psychological Association | ||||
| ISSN: | 0033-295X | ||||
| Official Date: | January 2008 | ||||
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| Volume: | Vol.115 | ||||
| Number: | No.1 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 2 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 228-229 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1037/0033-295X.115.1.228 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
| Funder: | Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC) | ||||
| Grant number: | RES 062-23-0545 (ERSC) | ||||
| Version or Related Resource: | Published in response to: Murray, W.S. & Forster, K.I. (2008). The rank hypothesis and lexical decision: a reply to Adelman and Brown. Psychological Review, 115, pp. 240–252. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0033-295X.115.1.240 | ||||
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