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  • Decision time in a sentence verification task is shorter when the sentence is about a member of a smaller semantic category (e.g. a canary is a bird) compared to a larger category (e.g. a canary is an animal).

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  • Frank Arnould

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  • Suppose that the following two sentences are to be verified: 1. The canary is a bird; 2. The canary is an animal. The decision time is shorter for the first sentence: the Bird category is less extensive than the Animal category. There are cases where the reaction time is shorter when the decision concerns the membership of a larger category: the reversal category size effect.

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