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http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/ics/McQueen_06.pdf -the point where a word becomes unique when moving from left to right -shorter words might not be recognized until after offset because they are not unique by the end; longer words usually have a uniqueness point prior to their offset http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/ics/McQueen_06.pdf -frequency of a word affects recognition - http://www.springerlink.com/content/n78018q322617724/ http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/cm/lectures/cm19_wordrec-2x2.pdf -occurs when there are words similar to the target word, usually only differing by one phoneme -the target word is harder to identify when there are more words that are similar -more difficult with non-words http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/cm/lectures/cm19_wordrec-2x2.pdf -in relation to neighborhood effect, identification is more difficult with more competitors (words similar to the target word
 * uniqueness point
 * frequency effect
 * neighborhood effect
 * competitors

Background Information
Prior to jumping into information about the cohort model, it is important to understand some other terms that are important when talking about lexical retrieval. First of all, the lexicon is the store of words in a person's mind. It is how our vocabulary is stored and is similar to a mental dictionary. A lexical entry is all the information about a word and the lexical storage is the way the items are stored for peak retrieval. Finally, lexical access is the way that people access the information in the mental lexicon.

After "competitors" --- Identification of the target word is more difficult with more competitors.

This occurs during the "access stage" and all of the possible words are known as the cohort.

The selection stage occurs when only one word is left from the set.

This is also known as the uniqueness point and it is the point where the most processing occurs.