Sensory experience ratings (SERs) for 1,659 French words: Relationships with other psycholinguistic variables and visual word recognition

We evaluated the dual route cascaded (DRC) model of visual word recognition using Greek behavioural data on word and nonword naming and lexical decision, focusing on the effects of syllable and bigram frequency. DRC was modified to process polysyllabic Greek words and nonwords. The Greek DRC and native speakers of Greek were presented with the same sets of word and nonword stimuli, spanning a wide range on several psycholinguistic variables, and the sensitivity of the model to lexical and sublexical variables was compared to the effects of these factors on the behavioural data. DRC pronounced correctly all the stimuli and successfully simulated the effects of frequency in words, and of length and bigram frequency in nonwords. However, unlike native speakers of Greek, DRC failed to demonstrate sensitivity to word length and syllabic frequency. We discuss the significance of these findings in constraining models of visual word recognition.

Download Full-text

Visual Word Recognition of Monosyllabic Monomorphemic French Words: New Evidence From Lexical Decision, Naming, and Progressive Demasking

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e527312012-752 ◽

2008 ◽

Author(s):

Ludovic Ferrand ◽

Patrick Bonin ◽

Alain Meot ◽

Maria Augustinova ◽

Boris New ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Word Recognition ◽

Lexical Decision ◽

Visual Word Recognition ◽

Visual Word ◽

French Words ◽

New Evidence

Download Full-text

Embodied Semantic Effects in Visual Word Recognition

10.31234/osf.io/cgs85 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Louise Connell ◽

Dermot Lynott

Keyword(s):

Word Recognition ◽

Lexical Decision ◽

Visual Word Recognition ◽

Semantic Content ◽

Sensory Experience ◽

Visual Word ◽

Object Interaction ◽

Sensorimotor Information ◽

The Impact

We review the range of embodied semantic effects that have been found in visual word recognition paradigms (lexical decision, naming). Many different embodied effects have been elicited by distinct measures of sensorimotor information, and are associated with different theoretical accounts of why semantic content affects how quickly a word can be recognised. We discuss effects due to imageability, body-object interaction, relative embodiment, sensory experience, and modality-specific perceptual strength. Finally, we discuss the impact of embodied semantic effects on current models of visual word recognition.

Download Full-text

Psycholinguistic variables in visual word recognition and pronunciation of European Portuguese words: a mega-study approach

Language Cognition and Neuroscience ◽

10.1080/23273798.2019.1578395 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 34 (6) ◽

pp. 689-719 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Ana Paula Soares ◽

Alexandrina Lages ◽

Ana Silva ◽

Montserrat Comesaña ◽

Inês Sousa ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Word Recognition ◽

Visual Word Recognition ◽

Visual Word ◽

Study Approach ◽

European Portuguese ◽

Psycholinguistic Variables

Download Full-text

Does Viotin Activate Violin More Than Viocin?

Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie) ◽

10.1027/1618-3169/a000223 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 61 (1) ◽

pp. 23-29 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Manuel Perea ◽

Victoria Panadero

Keyword(s):

Word Recognition ◽

Visual Word Recognition ◽

Developmental Dyslexia ◽

Computational Models ◽

Error Rates ◽

Visual Word ◽

Base Word ◽

Similar Response ◽

Skilled Readers ◽

Young Readers

The vast majority of neural and computational models of visual-word recognition assume that lexical access is achieved via the activation of abstract letter identities. Thus, a word’s overall shape should play no role in this process. In the present lexical decision experiment, we compared word-like pseudowords like viotín (same shape as its base word: violín) vs. viocín (different shape) in mature (college-aged skilled readers), immature (normally reading children), and immature/impaired (young readers with developmental dyslexia) word-recognition systems. Results revealed similar response times (and error rates) to consistent-shape and inconsistent-shape pseudowords for both adult skilled readers and normally reading children – this is consistent with current models of visual-word recognition. In contrast, young readers with developmental dyslexia made significantly more errors to viotín-like pseudowords than to viocín-like pseudowords. Thus, unlike normally reading children, young readers with developmental dyslexia are sensitive to a word’s visual cues, presumably because of poor letter representations.

Download Full-text

The Sound of Enemies and Friends in the Neighborhood

Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie) ◽

10.1027/1618-3169/a000113 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 58 (6) ◽

pp. 454-463 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Diane Pecher ◽

Inge Boot ◽

Saskia van Dantzig ◽

Carol J. Madden ◽

David E. Huber ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Word Recognition ◽

Visual Word Recognition ◽

Neighborhood Effects ◽

Classification Performance ◽

Visual Word ◽

Orthographic Neighborhood ◽

Semantic Classification ◽

Semantic Class ◽

Orthographic Neighbors ◽

Target Words

Previous studies (e.g., Pecher, Zeelenberg, & Wagenmakers, 2005) found that semantic classification performance is better for target words with orthographic neighbors that are mostly from the same semantic class (e.g., living) compared to target words with orthographic neighbors that are mostly from the opposite semantic class (e.g., nonliving). In the present study we investigated the contribution of phonology to orthographic neighborhood effects by comparing effects of phonologically congruent orthographic neighbors (book-hook) to phonologically incongruent orthographic neighbors (sand-wand). The prior presentation of a semantically congruent word produced larger effects on subsequent animacy decisions when the previously presented word was a phonologically congruent neighbor than when it was a phonologically incongruent neighbor. In a second experiment, performance differences between target words with versus without semantically congruent orthographic neighbors were larger if the orthographic neighbors were also phonologically congruent. These results support models of visual word recognition that assume an important role for phonology in cascaded access to meaning.

Download Full-text