POSSIBLE COGNITIVE MECHANISMS OF IDENTIFYING VISUALLY PRESENTED SOUND-SYMBOLIC WORDS BY NATIVE SPEAKERS (ON RUSSIAN)
The article describes the methodology and the results of the research used Lexical Decision tasks on how Russian subjects of three age groups (N=58) recognize Russian sound-symbolic, neutral, and non-words. The participants had to make a decision whether the stimulus was «a word» or «a non-word». The findings prove statistically significant delay in identification of sound-symbolic words as compared to that of neutral words irrespective of the subjects' age, which can be caused by cognitive gifficulty of the task demanding aditional energy and/or activating aditional information processing circuit.