Detecting inherent bias in lexical decision experiments with the LD1NN algorithm

Mental Lexicon

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 34-52

  Keuleers, Emmanuel ^a   Brysbaert, Marc ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Decision bias; Levenshtein distance; Lexical decision; Machine learning; Nearest neighbor; Nonwords; Pseudowords; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959242285     PISSN: 18711340     EISSN: 18711375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ml.6.1.02keu     Document Type: Article

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