Assessing the influence of letter position in reading normal and transposed texts using a letter detection task
| Autor: | Constantina Demetriou, Katherine Guérard, Marie Poirier, Jean Saint-Aubin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Eye Movements Universities Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Vocabulary 050105 experimental psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Reaction Time Humans Attention 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Students Pencil (mathematics) Analysis of Variance Psycholinguistics 05 social sciences Eye movement General Medicine Linguistics P1 Missing letter effect Pattern Recognition Visual Reading Space Perception Word identification Word recognition Female Comprehension Psychology Photic Stimulation 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Monitoring procedure |
| Zdroj: | Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology |
| ISSN: | 1878-7290 1196-1961 |
| Popis: | During word recognition, some letters appear to play a more important role than others. Although some studies have suggested that the first and last letters of a word have a privileged status, there is no consensus with regards to the importance of the different letter positions when reading connected text. In the current experiments, we used a simple letter search task to examine the impact of letter position on word identification in connected text using a classic paper and pencil procedure (Experiment 1) and an eye movement monitoring procedure (Experiment 2). In Experiments 3 and 4, a condition with transposed letters was included. Our results show that the first letter of a word is detected more easily than the other letters, and transposing letters in a word revealed the importance of the final letter. It is concluded that both the initial and final letters play a special role in word identification during reading but that the underlying processes might differ. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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