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The effects of orthographic neighborhood in reading and laboratory word identification tasks : a review. 'Los efectos de vecindad ortográfica en lectura y en tareas de reconocimiento de palabras : una revisión'
Manuel Perea,Eva Rosa +1 more
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This article showed that the number of higher frequency neighbors is inhibitory in reading and also examined the influence of orthographic structure in form and repetition-priming effects, which again suggests that orthographic neighbors seem to play an inhibitory role in the selection process.Abstract:
This paper reviews recent research on the effects of “orthographic neighbors” (i.e., words that can be created by changing one letter of the stimulus item, preserving letter positions, see Coltheart et al., 1977) on reading and laboratory word identification tasks. We begin this paper with a literature review on the two basic “neighborhood” effects (neighborhood size and neighborhood frequency). This review shows that the number of higher frequency neighbors is inhibitory in reading. We also examine the influence of orthographic structure in form - and repetition-priming effects, which again suggests that orthographic neighbors seem to play an inhibitory role in the selection process. Finally, we discuss the empirical evidence in the context of current models of visual word recognition and reading.read more
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BuscaPalabras: A program for deriving orthographic and phonological neighborhood statistics and other psycholinguistic indices in Spanish
Colin J. Davis,Manuel Perea +1 more
TL;DR: A Windows program that enables users to obtain a broad range of statistics concerning the properties of word and nonword stimuli in Spanish, including word frequency, syllable frequency, bigram and biphone frequency, orthographic similarity, Orthographic and phonological structure, concreteness, familiarity, imageability, valence, arousal, and age-of-acquisition measures.
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The bayesian reader : Explaining word recognition as an optimal bayesian decision process
TL;DR: A theory of visual word recognition is presented that assumes that, in the tasks of word identification, lexical decision, and semantic categorization, human readers behave as optimal Bayesian decision makers, which leads to the development of a computational model of word recognition, the Bayesian reader.
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Native language influences on word recognition in a second language: a megastudy.
Kristin Lemhöfer,Ton Dijkstra,Herbert Schriefers,R. Harald Baayen,Jonathan Grainger,Pienie Zwitserlood +5 more
TL;DR: Although influences across languages exist, word recognition in L2 by proficient bilinguals is primarily determined by within-language factors, whereas cross-language effects appear to be limited.
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Perception as Evidence Accumulation and Bayesian Inference: Insights From Masked Priming
Dennis Norris,Sachiko Kinoshita +1 more
TL;DR: The experiments showed that the pattern of masked priming is not a fixed function of the relations between the prime and the target but can be changed radically by changing the task from lexical decision to a same-different judgment.
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Interfering neighbours : The impact of novel word learning on the identification of visually similar words
TL;DR: The impact of visual similarity on written word identification was assessed by having participants learn new words that were neighbours of familiar words that previously had no neighbours that made it more difficult to semantically categorize the familiar words.
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