Set size and orthographic/phonological neighbourhood size effect in serial recognition: the importance of randomization

Guitard, Dominic, Miller, Leonie M., Neath, Ian and Roodenrys, Steven 2024. Set size and orthographic/phonological neighbourhood size effect in serial recognition: the importance of randomization. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology 78 (1) , pp. 9-16. 10.1037/cep0000320

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Abstract

The neighbourhood size effect refers to the finding of better memory for words with more orthographic/phonological neighbours than otherwise comparable words with fewer neighbours. Although many studies have replicated this result with serial recall, only one has used serial recognition. Greeno et al. (2022) found no neighbourhood size effect when a large stimulus pool was used and a reverse effect-better performance for small neighbourhood words-when a small stimulus pool was used. We reexamined these results but made two methodological changes. First, for the large pool, we randomly generated lists for each subject rather than creating one set of lists that all subjects experienced. Second, for the small pool, we randomly generated a small pool for each subject rather than using one small pool for all subjects. In both cases, we observed a neighbourhood size effect consistent with results from the serial recall literature. Implications for methodology and theoretical accounts of both the neighbourhood size effect and serial recognition are discussed.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Publisher:	American Psychological Association
ISSN:	1196-1961
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	31 July 2023
Date of Acceptance:	27 July 2023
Last Modified:	15 May 2024 11:43
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/161353

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