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Cristina Gil-lópez
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Number Representation in Bilinguals. The role of early learning in the Mental Number Line representation
2016
La presente tesis tiene como objetivo el estudio de la matemática bilingüe dentro del ámbito científico de la Cognición Numérica y Bilingüismo. El abordaje de cómo las personas bilingües representan y acceden a la magnitud es actualmente una cuestión de creciente interés que responde a la necesidad de entender el papel que desempeña el lenguaje en la adquisición temprana de las matemáticas. Esa importancia se ve reflejada habitualmente en el contexto de la educación, en donde el aprendizaje de la aritmética y el bilingüismo concurren de forma natural. Dada la importancia que tiene en nuestra sociedad tanto la adquisición de las matemáticas como el aprendizaje de una segunda lengua en edades…
Do handwritten words magnify lexical effects in visual word recognition?
2016
Published online: 27 Oct 2015 An examination of how the word recognition system is able to process handwritten words is fundamental to formulate a comprehensive model of visual word recognition. Previous research has revealed that the magnitude of lexical effects (e.g., the word-frequency effect) is greater with handwritten words than with printed words. In the present lexical decision experiments, we examined whether the quality of handwritten words moderates the recruitment of top-down feedback, as reflected in word-frequency effects. Results showed a reading cost for difficult-to-read and easy-to-read handwritten words relative to printed words. But the critical finding was that difficul…
Neural Correlates of Visual versus Abstract Letter Processing in Roman and Arabic Scripts
2013
In alphabetic orthographies, letter identification is a critical process during the recognition of visually presented words. In the present experiment, we examined whether and when visual form influences letter processing in two very distinct alphabets (Roman and Arabic). Disentangling visual versus abstract letter representations was possible because letters in the Roman alphabet may look visually similar/dissimilar in lowercase and uppercase forms (e.g., c-C vs. r-R) and letters in the Arabic alphabet may look visually similar/dissimilar, depending on their position within a word (e.g., [Formula: see text] - [Formula: see text] vs. [Formula: see text] - [Formula: see text]). We employed a…
The time course of processing handwritten words: An ERP investigation
2021
Available online 25 June 2021. Behavioral studies have shown that the legibility of handwritten script hinders visual word recognition. Furthermore, when compared with printed words, lexical effects (e.g., word-frequency effect) are magnified for less intelligible (difficult) handwriting (Barnhart and Goldinger, 2010; Perea et al., 2016). This boost has been interpreted in terms of greater influence of top-down mechanisms during visual word recognition. In the present experiment, we registered the participants’ ERPs to uncover top-down processing effects on early perceptual encoding. Participants’ behavioral and EEG responses were recorded to high- and low-frequency words that varied in scr…