Parafoveal letter-position coding in reading.
The masked-priming lexical decision task has been the paradigm of choice for investigating how readers code for letter identity and position. Insight into the temporal integration of information between prime and target words has pointed out, among other things, that readers do not code for the abso...
| Published in: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 46; no. 4; pp. 589 - 600 |
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Springer Nature
May2018
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=129511168&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 129511168 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 0090502X MEG jtl: Memory & Cognition issn: 0090502X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: May2018 vid: 46 iid: 4 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 129511168 10.3758/s13421-017-0786-0 ppf: 589 ppct: 11 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 492KB tig: atl: Parafoveal letter-position coding in reading. aug: au: Snell, Joshua Bertrand, Daisy Grainger, Jonathan affil: Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France Brain & Language Research Institute, Aix-en-Provence, France Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique, Marseille, France su: Paradigms (Social sciences) Reading Task performance Visual perception Phonological awareness Medical coding sug: subj: Paradigms (Social sciences) Reading Task performance Visual perception Phonological awareness Medical coding keyword: Flanker task Letter-position coding Orthographic processing Parallel processing Flanker task Letter-position coding Orthographic processing Parallel processing ab: The masked-priming lexical decision task has been the paradigm of choice for investigating how readers code for letter identity and position. Insight into the temporal integration of information between prime and target words has pointed out, among other things, that readers do not code for the absolute position of letters. This conception has spurred various accounts of the word recognition process, but the results at present do not favor one account in particular. Thus, employing a new strategy, the present study moves out of the arena of <italic>temporal</italic>- and into the arena of <italic>spatial</italic> information integration. We present two lexical decision experiments that tested how the processing of six-letter target words is influenced by simultaneously presented flanking stimuli (each stimulus was presented for 150 ms). We manipulated the orthographic relatedness between the targets and flankers, in terms of both letter identity (same/different letters based on the target’s outer/inner letters) and letter position (intact/reversed order of letters and of flankers, contiguous/noncontiguous flankers). Target processing was strongly facilitated by same-letter flankers, and this facilitatory effect was modulated by both letter/flanker order and contiguity. However, when the flankers consisted of the target’s inner-positioned letters alone, letter order no longer mattered. These findings suggest that readers may code for the relative position of letters using words’ edges as spatial points of reference. We conclude that the flanker paradigm provides a fruitful means to investigate letter-position coding in the fovea and parafovea. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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