摘要：Cognitive models incorporating mental lexicons have been common sense in cognitive neurolinguistics. Recently, however, some researchers have argued for cognitive models without lexicons (e.g., Patterson et al., 2006). In these models, auditory language processing consists of phonological and semantic processing with no lexical representations involved (Jeferies, Sage, & Lambon Ralph., 2007; Lambon Ralph, Moriarty, & Sage, 2002). In these models, the lexical decision task is basically a semantic decision task, and performance on this task should vary with accuracy of semantic processing. Proponents of models with lexicons, in turn, have argued that semantic and lexical processes may dissociate in individual subjects (Coltheart, 2004).
