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Paulo Ventura1, Helen W-Y Tse2, José C Guerreiro3
1Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade, 1649-013, Lisbon, Portugal. paulo.ventura@gmail.com.
Attention, Perception & Psychophysics
|May 13, 2022
Summary
Different measures of holistic word processing appear to rely on distinct mechanisms, and fluent reading in adults does not strongly depend on holistic processing. This study explored holistic processing in word recognition using various paradigms.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Psycholinguistics
- Neuroscience of Reading
Background:
- Holistic processing, initially studied in face recognition, has been applied to word recognition.
- The relationship between different measures of holistic word processing and their underlying mechanisms remains unclear.
- The extent to which fluent word reading depends on holistic processing is not well understood.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate whether various measures of holistic word processing share common underlying mechanisms.
- To determine if fluent word reading is reliant on holistic word processing.
- To examine the correlations between different holistic processing paradigms and reading fluency.
Main Methods:
- Employed three distinct paradigms to measure holistic processing: composite, configural sensitivity, and part-whole effects.
- Assessed reading fluency using a 3DM task, involving reading aloud high- and low-frequency words and pseudowords.
- Utilized bin scores to integrate accuracy and response time data for a comprehensive measure of holistic processing.
Main Results:
- Found weak correlations among the different holistic processing measures, with significant correlation only between configural sensitivity and part-whole effects (r = .32).
- Observed a trend for a positive correlation between the word composite effect and configural sensitivity (r = .21).
- Only the part-whole effect correlated with a lexical access measure from the 3DM task (r = .23), and principal component analysis revealed tendencies for correlations between holistic measures and lexical access components.
Conclusions:
- Different measures of holistic word processing likely reflect distinct underlying mechanisms.
- Individual differences in fluent word reading among typical readers do not appear to be strongly influenced by holistic processing.
- The findings suggest a dissociation between various holistic processing measures and their contribution to reading fluency.
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