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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1999

Lee Osterhout
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 losterho@u.washington.edu
Michael Bersick
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 losterho@u.washington.edu

Abstract

Pulvermüller advocates an experimental design in which well-matched tokens from various word categories are presented in list form to subjects making rapid lexical decisions about these stimuli. Implicit in this paradigm are several problematic assumptions. We conclude that such experiments are not likely to tell us much about the biological bases of human language.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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