Table 1.
List of visual word recognition megastudies
| Source | Task | Material | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seidenberg and Waters (1989) | Naming | 2,897 monosyllabic English words | 30 students |
| Treiman, Mullenix, Bijeljac-Babic, and Richmond-Welty (1995) | Naming | 1,329 English monosyllabic CVC words | 27 students |
| Spieler and Balota (1997) | Naming | 2,820 monosyllabic English words | 31 students |
| Spieler and Balota (2000) | Naming | 2,820 monosyllabic English words | 29 older adults (mean age = 73 years) |
| Chateau and Jared (2003) | Naming | 1,000 disyllabic six-letter words | 29 undergraduate students |
| Balota et al. (2004) | Lexical decision | 2,906 English monosyllabic words | 30 students and 30 older adults (mean age = 74 years) |
| Balota et al. (2007) | Lexical decision and naming | 40,481 English words | 400 students (naming), 816 students (lexical decision) |
| Lemhöfer et al. (2008) | Progressive demasking identification | 1,025 English words | 20 native speakers, and three groups of bilinguals with English as L2 |
| Ferrand et al. (2010) | Lexical decision | 38,840 French words | 975 students |
| Keuleers, Diependaele, & Brysbaert (2010) | Lexical decision | 14,037 Dutch monosyllabic and disyllabic words | 39 students and university personnel |