Paul Siakaluk’s scientific contributions

... Hino et al. demonstrated that, while the ambiguity disadvantage is observed with semantic categorization tasks involving broad categories like "living thing", it is not observed in semantic categorization tasks with easier, narrower decision categories (e.g., "vegetable"). With more narrow, less analytic decision categories null effects of ambiguity were observed (see also Siakaluk, Pexman, Sears, & Owen, 2007). Similarly, using a semantic relatedness decision task, Pexman, Hino, and Lupker (2004) reported that while there was a clear ambiguity disadvantage when the ambiguous words were presented on "yes" trials (e.g., money-bank), replicating Piercey and Joordens (2000), there was no effect of ambiguity when the ambiguous words were presented on "no" trials (e.g., horse-bank). ...

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Meaning-based influences on visual word recognition