The orthographic/phonological neighbourhood size effect and set size

Guitard, Dominic, Miller, Leonie M., Neath, Ian and Roodenrys, Steven 2024. The orthographic/phonological neighbourhood size effect and set size. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 77 (2) , pp. 298-307. 10.1177/17470218231165863

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Abstract

A growing number of studies have shown that on serial recall tests, words with more orthographic/phonological neighbours are better recalled than otherwise comparable words with fewer neighbours, the so-called neighbourhood size effect. Greeno et al. replicated this result when using a large stimulus pool but found a reverse neighbourhood size effect—better recall of words with fewer rather than more neighbours—when using a small stimulus pool. We report three registered experiments that further examine the role of set size in the neighbourhood size effect. Experiment 1 used the large pool from Greeno et al. and replicated their finding of a large-neighbourhood advantage. Experiment 2 used the small pool from Greeno et al. but found no difference in recall between the large and small neighbourhood conditions. Experiment 3 also used a small pool but the small pool was randomly generated for each subject from the large pool used in Experiment 1. This resulted in a typical large neighbourhood advantage. We suggest that set size is not critical to the direction of the neighbourhood size effect, with a large neighbourhood advantage appearing with both small and large pools.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Publisher:	SAGE
ISSN:	0033-555X
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	14 April 2023
Date of Acceptance:	9 March 2023
Last Modified:	20 Feb 2024 15:43
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/158878

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