During a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) experiment, a participant struggles to identify a target word presented among distractors. Which consequence follows, due to the increased cognitive load?

💡 Explanation

The lexical competition hypothesis suggests multiple word candidates are briefly activated; however, increased cognitive load in RSVP attenuates these competition effects because of limited processing resources. Therefore, lexical competition effects decrease, rather than increasing other priming or attentional influences.

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