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Falk Huettig1, Niharika Singh, Ramesh Kumar Mishra

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Formal literacy influences spoken language processing. Highly literate individuals use phonological cues rapidly, while less literate individuals rely more on semantic information for visual orienting.

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attentioneye movementsliteracyphonological processingsemantic processing

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Formal literacy significantly impacts cognitive processes.
  • Understanding how literacy affects spoken language comprehension and visual attention is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the influence of formal literacy on spoken language-mediated visual orienting.
  • To compare the processing strategies of high and low literate individuals in a look-and-listen task.

Main Methods:

  • A look-and-listen task was employed with spoken sentences and visual object displays.
  • Participants (high and low literates) fixated on visual displays while listening to target words with phonological and semantic competitors.
  • Eye gaze shifts were tracked to analyze visual orienting responses.

Main Results:

  • Both groups attended to semantic competitors.
  • Highly literate individuals rapidly shifted gaze to phonological competitors upon detecting phonetic information.
  • Low literate individuals primarily used semantic information, resorting to phonological cues only when semantic matches were absent, and with delayed responses.

Conclusions:

  • Formal literacy shapes the integration of auditory and visual information during language processing.
  • High literates exhibit flexible, rapid use of phonological and semantic cues, tightly time-locked to speech.
  • Low literates demonstrate a more semantically driven approach, with less proficient phonological processing and delayed attention shifts.