ERIC Number: EJ1095650
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Apr
Pages: 24
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Short-Term and Long-Term Effects on Visual Word Recognition
Protopapas, Athanassios; Kapnoula, Efthymia C.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, v42 n4 p542-565 Apr 2016
Effects of lexical and sublexical variables on visual word recognition are often treated as homogeneous across participants and stable over time. In this study, we examine the modulation of frequency, length, syllable and bigram frequency, orthographic neighborhood, and graphophonemic consistency effects by (a) individual differences, and (b) item repetition. A group of 129 participants performed lexical decision and naming, in counterbalanced order, using a set of 150 Greek words in which these variables were decorrelated. Frequency, length, and syllable frequency effects were reduced by a preceding task. Length effects were inversely related to years of education. Neighborhood effects depended on the metric used. There were no significant effects or interactions of bigram frequency or consistency. The results suggest that exposure to a word causes transient effects that may cumulatively develop into permanent individual differences. Models of word recognition must incorporate item-specific learning to account for these findings.
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Foreign Countries, Greek, Syllables, Language Processing, Reaction Time, Multiple Regression Analysis, Native Speakers, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Word Frequency, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Naming, Decision Making, Task Analysis, Predictor Variables, Phonology, Cognitive Processes
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Greece
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