Search results for "orthographic processing"
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Does orthographic processing emerge rapidly after learning a new script?
2021
Epub 2020 Aug 11 Orthographic processing is characterized by location-invariant and location-specific processing (Grainger, 2018): (1) strings of letters are more vulnerable to transposition effects than the strings of symbols in same-different tasks (location-invariant processing); and (2) strings of letters, but not strings of symbols, show an initial position advantage in target-in-string identification tasks (location-specific processing). To examine the emergence of these two markers of orthographic processing, we conducted a same-different task and a target-in-string identification task with two unfamiliar scripts (pre-training experiments). Across six training sessions, participants …
Do Grading Gray Stimuli Help to Encode Letter Position?
2021
Numerous experiments in the past decades recurrently showed that a transposed-letter pseudoword (e.g., JUGDE) is much more wordlike than a replacement-letter control (e.g., JUPTE). Critically, there is an ongoing debate as to whether this effect arises at a perceptual level (e.g., perceptual uncertainty at assigning letter position of an array of visual objects) or at an abstract language-specific level (e.g., via a level of “open bigrams” between the letter and word levels). Here, we designed an experiment to test the limits of perceptual accounts of letter position coding. The stimuli in a lexical decision task were presented either with a homogeneous letter intensity or with a graded gra…
How Literacy Shapes Orthographic Processing
2022
La lectura es una habilidad indispensable en nuestra sociedad. Sin ella, no podríamos acceder a la historia, o aprender de nuestros avances y retrocesos. Resulta casi milagroso que el Homo sapiens hiciera unas marcas en una piedra para aumentar drásticamente su capacidad de memoria. Estas marcas en la piedra, que serían lo que ahora llamamos letras, se convirtieron en herramientas. Herramientas que alteran la maquinaria cerebral para conectar las formas visuales con un significado, es decir, para sustentar la lectura. Hoy en día, la lectura es parte de nuestra vida cotidiana hasta tal punto que no nos damos cuenta de su complejidad. Cuando leemos, nuestros ojos saltan de palabra a palabra, …
Which Factors Modulate Letter Position Coding in Pre-literate Children?
2021
One of the central landmarks of learning to read is the emergence of orthographic processing (i.e., the encoding of letter identity and letter order): it constitutes the necessary link between the low-level stages of visual processing and the higher-level processing of words. Regarding the processing of letter position, many experiments have shown worse performance in various tasks for the transposed-letter pair judge-JUDGE than for the orthographic control jupte-JUDGE. Importantly, 4-y.o. pre-literate children also show letter transposition effects in a same-different task: TZ-ZT is more error-prone than TZ-PH. Here, we examined whether this effect with pre-literate children is related to …