Régine Kolinsky|Rosemeire Selma Monteiro-Plantin|Elias José Mengarda|Loni Grimm-Cabral|Leonor Scliar-Cabral|José Morais
How formal education and literacy impact on the content and structure of semantic categories
Université Libre de Bruxelles|Fund for Scientific Research|Universidade Federal do Ceará|Universidade Federal de Santa Maria|Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina|National Council for Scientific and Technological Development|Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina|Université Libre de Bruxelles
examined hypothesis formal education literacy impact richness precision semantic knowledge organization semantic categories basic mechanisms access experiment 1 adults varying levels formal education presented semantic fluency tests superordinate naming task experiment 2 examined impact reading proficiency adults varying degrees literacy presented simple semantic alternating semantic phonemic fluency tasks well literacyrelated reasoning memory tests fluency analyzed terms overall performance sequential order speed responses despite lower performance illiterates adults null limited formal education displayed taxonomic clustering retrieval semantic subcategory participants higher formal education levels yet formal education literacy slightly speed access categories probably providing useful cues generating category exemplars