AUTHOR=Perea Manuel , Marcet Ana , Vergara-Martínez Marta , Gomez Pablo TITLE=On the Dissociation of Word/Nonword Repetition Effects in Lexical Decision: An Evidence Accumulation Account JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=7 YEAR=2016 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00215 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00215 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
A number of models of visual-word recognition assume that the repetition of an item in a lexical decision experiment increases that item's familiarity/wordness. This would produce not only a facilitative repetition effect for words, but also an inhibitory effect for nonwords (i.e., more familiarity/wordness makes the negative decision slower). We conducted a two-block lexical decision experiment to examine word/nonword repetition effects in the framework of a leading “familiarity/wordness” model of the lexical decision task, namely, the diffusion model (Ratcliff et al.,