Lexical Decision Task | LDT Test | Neuropsychological Tool |

In short, its a test where participants decide whether a word is a real or not

Explanation

So In LDT, a participant needs to make a decision about whether combinations of letters are words or not.

For example, when you see the word ...boy.... you respond "yes, this is a real English word",


but when you see the letters ..eg. "HGHEE" you respond "No, this is not a real English word".

How it can be useful

You can use it to study the strength of mental representations in memory and understand the factors that can enhance or impede their retrieval.