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Margery Lucas
Researcher at Wellesley College
Publications - 29
Citations - 1175
Margery Lucas is an academic researcher from Wellesley College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Lexical decision task & Priming (psychology). The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 29 publications receiving 1078 citations. Previous affiliations of Margery Lucas include University of Rochester.
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Semantic priming without association: A meta-analytic review
TL;DR: A meta-analysis of 26 studies indicated that automatic semantic priming can occur without association, suggesting that there is an “associative boost” from adding an associative relationship to a semantic one.
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Context effects in lexical processing.
TL;DR: It is suggested that top-down feedback effects in comprehension are primarily limited to situations in which there is a well-defined part-whole relationship between the two levels and the set of lower-level units that could receive feedback from a higher level is restricted.
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Levels of representation in the interpretation of anaphoric reference and instrument inference
TL;DR: The level of representation accessed when inferences are made during sentence comprehension was examined and it was indicated that all three types of inferences required-accessing-elements in a discourse model.
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Frequency Effects on the Processing of Ambiguous Words in Sentence Contexts
TL;DR: The results indicate that, whereas lexical access is an autonomous process, selection of the appropriate interpretation is a post-lexical process that is influenced by frequency information and context.
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How conception risk affects competition and cooperation with attractive women and men
Margery Lucas,Elissa Koff +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the role of mating motives in economic behavior and found that women in the fertile phase were more competitive over resources with attractive women than with less attractive women, regardless of fertility status.