Evidence of serial processing in visual word recognition

Evidence of Strategic Processing during Word Recognition

All 95 undergraduates in this study decided if letter strings formed real words or not. Word meaning (ambiguous, unambiguous words) was manipulated within subjects while stimulus proportion (proportion of ambiguous and unambiguous words) was manipulated between subjects. These factors interacted, suggesting that strategic factors influence word recognition. These results support the view that w...

The importance of phonological coding in visual word recognition: Further evidence from second-language processing

Pseudohomophone effects provide evidence of early lexico-phonological processing in visual word recognition.

Previous research using event-related brain potentials (ERPs) suggested that phonological processing in visual word recognition occurs rather late, typically after semantic or syntactic processing. Here, we show that phonological activation in visual word recognition can be observed much earlier. Using a lexical decision task, we show that ERPs to pseudohomophones (PsHs) (e.g., ROZE) differed f...

Syllable-frequency effect in visual word recognition: Evidence of sequential-type processing

Three experiments examine the syllable-frequency effect during visual word recognition in Spanish. Disyllabic words and pseudowords were employed manipulating the positional frequency of the first and the second syllable as well as the word frequency (only for words). A standard lexical decision task (Experiment 1) and a temporal separation technique (Experiments 2 & 3), in which either the fir...

Evidence of flexible coding in visual word recognition.

In 3 visual word recognition experiments, the authors examined Ss' differential dependence on phonological versus orthographic information in accessing the lexicon. The critical manipulation was the presence or absence of pseudohomophones in the nonword context of a lexical decision task. Ss received a list with either no pseudohomophones (NPsH group) or 17%-30% pseudohomophones among the nonwo...