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Transposed-letter and laterality effects in lexical decision.
Isabel FragaManuel Pereasubject
Linguistics and LanguageVisual perceptionCognitive Neurosciencemedia_common.quotation_subjectDecision MakingBrainExperimental and Cognitive PsychologyCognitionChoice BehaviorVocabularyLanguage and LinguisticsLateralization of brain functionFunctional LateralityVisual fieldSpeech and HearingPerceptionLateralityWord recognitionLexical decision taskHumansVisual FieldsPsychologyCognitive psychologymedia_commondescription
Two divided visual field lexical decision experiments were conducted to examine the role of the cerebral hemispheres in transposed-letter similarity effects. In Experiment 1, we created two types of nonwords: nonadjacent transposed-letter nonwords (TRADEGIA; the base word was TRAGEDIA, the Spanish for TRAGEDY) and two-letter different nonwords (orthographic controls: TRATEPIA). In Experiment 2, the controls were one-letter different nonwords (TRAGEPIA) instead of two-letter different nonwords (TRATEPIA). The effect of transposed-letter similarity was substantially greater in the right visual field (left hemisphere) than in the left visual field. Furthermore, nonwords created by transposing two letters were more competitive than the nonwords created by substituting one or two letters of a target word. We examine the implications of these findings for the models of visual word recognition.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-04-01 | Brain and language |