A Word Superiority Effect without Orthographic Assistance

Leslie Henderson

doi:10.1080/14640747408400416

A Word Superiority Effect without Orthographic Assistance

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology ◽

10.1080/14640747408400416 ◽

1974 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 301-311 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

Leslie Henderson

Keyword(s):

Binary Classification ◽

Classification Task ◽

Word Superiority Effect ◽

Superiority Effect

In a binary classification task meaningful but unpronounceable letter strings were compared faster than meaningless strings. This effect obtained when only one member of a pair was meaingful and it increased with number of letters. These results suggest that analysis proceeds in parallel at various levels of the processing hierarchy with interaction between semantic and graphemic processes.

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Erotophobia, Erotophilia, and the Word Superiority Effect

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e665412011-306 ◽

1992 ◽

Author(s):

Paul Haerich ◽

Heather C. Carmack

Keyword(s):

Word Superiority Effect ◽

Superiority Effect

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An analysis of the word-superiority effect

Cognitive Psychology ◽

10.1016/0010-0285(73)90012-1 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 207-228 ◽

Cited By ~ 153

Author(s):

Jonathan Baron ◽

Ian Thurston

Keyword(s):

Word Superiority Effect ◽

Superiority Effect

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Perceptual and lexical effects in letter identification: An event-related potential study of the word superiority effect

Brain Research ◽

10.1016/j.brainres.2006.04.097 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 1098 (1) ◽

pp. 153-160 ◽

Cited By ~ 31

Author(s):

Clara D. Martin ◽

Tatjana Nazir ◽

Guillaume Thierry ◽

Yves Paulignan ◽

Jean-François Démonet

Keyword(s):

Event Related Potential ◽

Word Superiority Effect ◽

Letter Identification ◽

Superiority Effect ◽

Potential Study ◽

Lexical Effects

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The word-superiority effect does not require a T-scope

Perception & Psychophysics ◽

10.3758/bf03211643 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 51 (5) ◽

pp. 473-484 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

William Prinzmetal

Keyword(s):

Word Superiority Effect ◽

Superiority Effect

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Letter Identification in Words and Non-Words, with Variation in Visual Angle and Delay of Position Cue

Perception ◽

10.1068/p110305 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 305-317 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Robert T Solman

Keyword(s):

Serial Position ◽

Letter String ◽

Visual Angle ◽

Superior Performance ◽

Word Superiority Effect ◽

Letter Identification ◽

Superiority Effect ◽

Critical Letter ◽

Contextual Constraint ◽

Perceptual Locus

Two experiments are described in which subjects were required to report the name of a single position-cued ‘critical’ letter in a tachistoscopically displayed string of four letters. The stimulus characters were arranged to form three types of letter strings: (i) strings in which the letters did not form words; (ii) words in which contextual constraint of the critical letters was minimised; and (iii) words in which contextual constraint of the critical letters was maximised. The serial position of the letter to be identified in each string was cued at delays of −500, −100, and +500 ms, in experiment 1 and at delays of −510 and +510 ms in experiment 2, and in both experiments one group of subjects responded to letter strings which subtended a horizontal visual angle of 3·95 deg, while a second group responded to strings which subtended 1·02 deg. Correct identifications of critical letters showed that the presentation of words resulted in superior performance. This ‘word superiority effect’ is consistent with earlier findings implying that it has a perceptual locus. For the stimuli which subtended the large visual angle the word advantage was detrimentally affected only when the position of the critical letter to be identified was cued either 500 or 510 ms prior to the display of the letter string.

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