Orthographic contributions to perceived word center  

Oleh:

Fischer, Martin H.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 88 no. 3 (2004), halaman 321-330.
Topik: Letter font; Letter size; Graphemes; Phonemes; Word bisection; Lexical access; Perceived word center
Fulltext: 88_03_Fischer.pdf (173,15KB)

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We have a surprising tendency to misperceive the center of visually presented words (Fischer, 1996, 2000a, 2000b). To understand the origin of this bias, four experiments assessed the impact of letter font, letter size, and grapheme–phoneme convergences on perceived stimulus center. Fourteen observers indicated the perceived centers of words, pseudowords, consonant strings, and lines with a mouse cursor. Visual orthographic factors had no effect on perceived word center but grapheme–phoneme convergence did: Observers compensated for strong grapheme–phoneme asymmetries in the letter strings. These findings support the idea that the cognitive representation of words is spatially distorted as a result of lexical access mechanisms.

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