Ambiguity and connectionist networks: Still settling into a solution--comment on Joordens and...

Criticizes a study by Joordens and Besner on ambiguity in lexical decision tasks. Masson's model of semantic printing; Unreliability of the ambiguity advantage; Response measures and semantic access; Effect of algorithmic and architectural factors on network performance; Speed with which readers perform lexical decisions as affected by number of meanings a given word has.