| English |
| frequency effect |
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| Attestation |
3
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| Part of speech |
Noun phrase
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| Phraseology |
To a result in a frequency effect.
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| Definition |
An important semantic system´s organizing principle according to which low frequency words cannot be easily activated by aphasics.
An effect on which it depends the activation threshold of the representation. The frequency effect allows high frequency words to be more easily activated than the low frequency words.
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| Definition source |
Vista-Mead 2001
Vista-Mead 2001
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| Context |
Normal subjects are faster at recognizing that a string of letters corresponds to a legitimate word of the language when the string corresponds to a frequently occurring word (e.g., house) than when a less frequent sequence (e.g., enzyme) is presented (Gordon, 1983; Howes & Solomon, 1951; Morton, 1969). This finding, usually referred to as a FREQUENCY EFFECT, holds true with both orthographic representations in reading and phonological representations in auditory recognition. These observations have been taken as evidence that the frequency of occurrence of an item in the language is reflected in the ease and speed with which lexical representations are activated.
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| Context source |
Sarno 1991
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| Subject field |
Aphasia
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| Sub-field (level 1) |
Aphasiology
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| Sub-field (level 2) |
Cognitive neuropsychology
Clinical neuropsychology
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| Sub-field (level 3) |
Diagnosis-Neuropsychological test battery
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| Related concept |
Target word, Reaction time, Cue
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| it |
Effetto frequenza
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| Reliability code |
3
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