The effects of prior semantic context upon lexical access during sentence comprehension
were examined in two experiments. In both studies, subjects comprehended auditorily …

The effects of disambiguating prior contexts upon the processing of lexical ambiguities in
sentences were investigated. Subjects listened to lexically ambiguous (or unambiguous …

Two hypotheses concerning the nature of lexical access, the exhaustive access and the
terminating ordered search hypotheses, were examined in two separate studies using a …

Previous models of the computation of word meanings in sentence context have claimed
either that context causes only one meaning of an ambiguous word to be processed or that …

Six experiments with 144 undergraduates tested the hypothesis that semantic context
facilitates the encoding of words related to the context. Different tasks (making a lexical …

An experiment was conducted testing predictions derived from context-dependent and
context-independent models of lexical access. Four types of unambiguous test sentences …

An incomplete sentence context facilitated a subsequent lexical decision only when the test
word was a highly likely completion of the sentence. Context had no effect on congruent but …

Stanovich and West (1983; West and Stanovich, 1982) demonstrated that lexical decisions
to target words preceded by incongruous sentence contexts are inhibited more by these …

Abstract Effects of prior sentential context on the interpretation of unambiguous nouns were
investigated in 2 cross-modal priming experiments. Exp 1 showed that a prior priming …

Ambiguous and unambiguous sentences were presented to 80 subjects in Experiment I.
Half of the ambiguous sentences had contexts which biased the interpretation of the …