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Word Recognition, Phonological Coding, and Semantic Priming

The topic of word recognition concerns how people process printed and spoken words in order to identify them and retrieve their meanings from long-term memory for use in performing numerous cognitive tasks.

For More Information:

• Gossman, J. R., & Meyer, D. E. (1975, May). Coordination of search processes in short-term and long-term memory. Paper presented at the meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
• Meyer, D. E., & Ellis, G. B. (1970, November). Parallel processes in word recognition. Paper presented at the meeting of the Psychonomic Society, San Antonio, TX.
• Meyer, D. E., & Gutschera, K. D. (1975, November). Orthographic versus phonemic processing of printed words. Paper presented at the meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Denver, CO.
• Meyer, D. E., & Ruddy, M. G. (1974, April). Bilingual word recognition: Organization and retrieval of alternative lexical codes. Paper presented at the meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, PA.
• Meyer, D. E., & Schvaneveldt, R. W. (1971). Facilitation in recognizing pairs of words: Evidence of a dependence between retrieval operations. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 90, 227-234.
• Meyer, D. E., & Schvaneveldt, R. W. (1976). Meaning, memory structure, and mental processes. Science, 192, 27-33.
• Meyer, D. E., Schvaneveldt, R. W., & Ruddy, M. G. (1972, November). Activation of lexical memory. Paper presented at the meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO.
• Meyer, D. E., Schvaneveldt, R. W., & Ruddy M. G. (1974). Functions of graphemic and phonemic codes in visual word-recognition. Memory & Cognition, 2, 309-321.
• Meyer, D. E., Schvaneveldt, R. W., & Ruddy, M. G. (1975). Loci of contextual effects on visual word-recognition. In P. M. A. Rabbitt (Ed.), Attention and performance V. London: Academic Press.
• Schvaneveldt, R. W., & Meyer, D. E. (1973). Retrieval and comparison processes in semantic memory. In S. Kornblum (Ed.), Attention and performance IV. New York: Academic Press.
• Schvaneveldt, R. W., Meyer, D. E., & Becker, C. W. (1976). Lexical ambiguity, semantic context, and visual word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2, 243-256.
• Yantis, S. G., & Meyer, D. E. (1988). Dynamics of activation in semantic and episodic memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 117, 130-147.

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