Mental Lexicon

Journal Title：Mental Lexicon

Mental Lexicon is an important concept in linguistics and cognitive psychology, which refers to the long-term stored lexical knowledge system in the human brain and serves as the foundation for language understanding and generation. This concept has gradually received widespread attention and research in the academic community since it was proposed by scholars such as Tressman in the 1960s. The study of psychological dictionaries originated from in-depth exploration of language cognitive processes. Tressman and other scholars first proposed the prototype of a psychological dictionary, which is composed of many entries with different thresholds. When the activation of an entry exceeds its threshold, the word is recognized. With the deepening of research, a psychological dictionary is defined as the representation of the meaning of words in human psychology, which includes various aspects of information such as pronunciation, spelling, syntax, and semantics of words.

As a core concept in linguistics and cognitive psychology, the study of 'Mental Lexicon' is of great significance in revealing the cognitive mechanisms of language, promoting interdisciplinary integration, and advancing the development of related fields. With the continuous deepening of research and the advancement of technology, the study of psychological dictionaries will achieve more fruitful results.

《心理词典》是语言学和认知心理学中一个重要的概念，它指的是人类大脑中长期存储的词汇知识体系，是语言理解和生成的基础。这一概念自20世纪60年代由特雷斯曼等学者提出以来，逐渐受到学术界的广泛关注和研究。心理词典的研究起源于对语言认知过程的深入探索。特雷斯曼等学者最早提出了心理词典的雏形，认为它由许多具有不同阈限的词条组成，当词条的激活超过其阈限时，该词就被认知。随着研究的深入，心理词典被定义为词的意义在人的心理中的表征，它包含了词的语音、拼写、句法、语义等多方面的信息。

《心理词典》作为语言学和认知心理学中的一个核心概念，其研究对于揭示语言的认知机制、促进学科交叉与融合、推动相关领域的发展具有重要意义。随着研究的不断深入和技术的不断进步，心理词典的研究将会取得更加丰硕的成果。

Mental Lexicon由John Benjamins Publishing Company出版商出版，收稿方向涵盖LINGUISTICS全领域，平均审稿速度 ，影响因子指数0.6，该期刊近期没有被列入国际期刊预警名单，广大学者值得一试。