Lexical Decision Task (LDT)
The first experimenters to use the Lexical Decision Task (LDT) were Meyer and Schvaneveldt in 1971 who measured semantic decisions and showed that people are faster to respond to words when they have already been shown a prime that is semantically related, ex. faster to confirm "nurse" as a word when it is preceded by "doctor" than when it is preceded by "butter".
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