Keeping an Eye on Effort: A Pupillometric Investigation of Effort and Effortlessness in Visual Word Recognition
| Autor: | Adi Shechter, David L. Share |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Adult
media_common.quotation_subject word recognition effort 050105 experimental psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Reading (process) Reaction Time Humans Learning 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Research Articles General Psychology media_common Word reading Visual word recognition Operationalization pupillometry 05 social sciences Cognitive effort Behavioral data Pattern Recognition Visual Reading Word recognition skill learning General Articles Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Pupillometry Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Psychological Science |
| ISSN: | 1467-9280 0956-7976 |
| Popis: | Rapid and seemingly effortless word recognition is a virtually unquestioned characteristic of skilled reading, yet the definition and operationalization of the concept of cognitive effort have proven elusive. We investigated the cognitive effort involved in oral and silent word reading using pupillometry among adults (Experiment 1, N = 30; Experiment 2, N = 20) and fourth through sixth graders (Experiment 3, N = 30; Experiment 4, N = 18). We compared multiple pupillary measures (mean, peak, and peak latency) for reading familiar words (real words) and unfamiliar letter strings (pseudowords) varying in length. Converging with the behavioral data for accuracy and response times, pupillary responses demonstrated a greater degree of cognitive effort for pseudowords compared with real words and stronger length effects for pseudowords than for real words. These findings open up new possibilities for studying the issue of effort and effortlessness in the field of word recognition and other fields of skill learning. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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