کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
8839869 1613761 2018 58 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
An Event-Related Potential study of letter spacing during visual word recognition
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
یک مطالعه بالقوه مربوط به رویداد از فاصله نامه در هنگام شناخت کلمه بصری
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب (عمومی)
چکیده انگلیسی
Increasing spacing between letters in words (e.g., s p a c e vs. space) helps children and adults read more fluidly and with fewer errors. This effect has been demonstrated behaviorally, chiefly through lexical decision reaction time and total paragraph reading time. To date, however, no electrophysiological work has examined the letter spacing effect, resulting in little insight regarding how letter spacing impacts “hidden” levels of processing between apprehension of the word form and the final behavioral outcome. Here, we examined how varying levels of interletter spacing (crowded, standard, and increased) impact ERPs elicited by words and other item types (pseudowords, illegal strings, and a false font). Results indicate that letter spacing does not impact the ERP within the first second after viewing a wordform, but that it does have downstream effects as indicated by data collected using a priming design. Further, the facilitation of downstream processing afforded by increased spacing seems to be greater for more word-like stimuli (e.g., greater for words than for consonant strings, etc). Results are discussed as being somewhat inconsistent with prevalent views of the mechanism of the letter spacing effect (i.e., crowding).
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Brain Research - Volume 1684, 1 April 2018, Pages 9-20
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