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  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003, USA. m.fischer@psych.umass.edu

Brain Research. Cognitive Brain Research
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Word length influences cognitive word representation, but spatial processing differs from prior neurological findings. Word beginnings are overestimated, possibly due to lexical access and attentional scaling during reading.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Psycholinguistics

Background:

  • Previous research suggested word length, spatial centering, and orientation invariance in word representation.
  • These hypotheses were derived from a neurological patient's reading errors.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To test Caramazza and Hillis's hypotheses on word representation in healthy individuals.
  • To investigate the spatial reference frame and orientation invariance of cognitive word representations.
  • To explore the factors influencing word bisection biases.

Main Methods:

  • Healthy subjects performed line bisection tasks with word flankers.
  • Participants also bisected English words and pronounceable non-words.
  • Reading abilities, including non-native reading, were considered.

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Main Results:

  • Word flanker length systematically affected line bisection, supporting the role of word length.
  • Word bisection showed a bias towards beginnings for horizontal words, contradicting orientation invariance.
  • This bias was observed with pronounceable non-words and increased in non-native readers.

Conclusions:

  • Word length is integral to cognitive word representation.
  • The spatial representation of words is not orientation-invariant and is influenced by lexical access.
  • An attentional scaling hypothesis explains word bisection and eye fixation biases in reading.