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Does viotin activate violin more than viocin? On the use of visual cues during visual-word recognition.
Victoria PanaderoManuel Pereasubject
AdultMalemedia_common.quotation_subjectDecision MakingExperimental and Cognitive PsychologyViolinDyslexiaYoung AdultArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)Reading (process)Lexical decision taskmedicineReaction TimeContrast (vision)HumansChildSensory cueGeneral Psychologymedia_commonVisual word recognitionAnalysis of VarianceDyslexiaGeneral Medicinemedicine.diseaseLinguisticsPattern Recognition VisualReadingDevelopmental dyslexiaFemaleCuesPsychologyCognitive psychologydescription
The vast majority of neural and computational models of visual-word recognition assume that lexical access is achieved via the activation of abstract letter identities. Thus, a word’s overall shape should play no role in this process. In the present lexical decision experiment, we compared word-like pseudowords like viotín (same shape as its base word: violín) vs. viocín (different shape) in mature (college-aged skilled readers), immature (normally reading children), and immature/impaired (young readers with developmental dyslexia) word-recognition systems. Results revealed similar response times (and error rates) to consistent-shape and inconsistent-shape pseudowords for both adult skilled readers and normally reading children – this is consistent with current models of visual-word recognition. In contrast, young readers with developmental dyslexia made significantly more errors to viotín-like pseudowords than to viocín-like pseudowords. Thus, unlike normally reading children, young readers with developmental dyslexia are sensitive to a word’s visual cues, presumably because of poor letter representations.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-08-17 | Experimental psychology |