Efectos secuenciales de primer orden en una tarea de decisión léxica sólo-sí
- Perea Lara, Manuel
- Estévez Monzó, Adelina
ISSN: 0214-3550, 1579-3702
Year of publication: 2006
Volume: 18
Issue: 2
Pages: 101-110
Type: Article
More publications in: Cognitiva
Abstract
A go/no-go lexical decision experiment was conducted to examine the influence of the lexical status and item-frequency of trial N-1 on trial N when the trials are not related to each other. In the go/no-go task, participants are instructed to makes responses to words, but not to nonwords. Recent research has found small sequential effects with the yes/no task for low-frequency words (Perea & Carreiras, 2003). However, the direction of the effects was not consistent with the analyses provided by Gordon (1983) with the go/no-go task. To examine the potential discrepancy between the two task procedures, the present study was a go/no-go replication of the yes/no experiment of Perea and Carreiras (2003). The results showed a sequential item-frequency effect in the error rates for nonwords and in the leading edge of the response time distribution. These findings add support to the idea that participants shift their decision criteria on a trial-by-trial basis