A still of the Lexical Decision Task this video shows. The screen reads: Word or not a word?.
Word or not a word?
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Decide as fast as you can whether each string of letters is a real word.
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What to do and say
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DoAsk viewers: word or not a word?
SayWord, or not a word? Decide as fast as you can.
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DoRun a few fast trials with real words and made-up ones.
SaySome are real words, and some are made up. My average was [Average response time].
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DoSay what the response times tell researchers.
SayResearchers time these choices to study how we recognize words. Common words get faster answers than rare ones. Try it at conductcognition.com.
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What viewers should learn
Researchers time how fast people decide whether letters form a real word, to study how we recognize words.
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Image credits
- A person in an EEG cap at a computer, during an experiment. Flexagoon, Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0, cropped.
