scholarly journals The optimal viewing position effect in printed versus cursive words: Evidence of a reading cost for the cursive font

2018 ◽  
Vol 188 ◽  
pp. 110-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jérémy Danna ◽  
Delphine Massendari ◽  
Benjamin Furnari ◽  
Stéphanie Ducrot
Keyword(s):  
Position Effect ◽  
Optimal Viewing Position ◽  
Viewing Position

A perceptual-economy account for the inverted-optimal viewing position effect.

2007 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 1220-1249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Françoise Vitu ◽  
Denis Lancelin ◽  
Valentine Marrier d'Unienville
Keyword(s):  
Position Effect ◽  
Optimal Viewing Position ◽  
Viewing Position

scholarly journals Letter Visibility and the Optimal Viewing Position Effect of Isolated Connected and Un-Connected Letters in Arabic

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 174-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deia Ganayim
Keyword(s):  
Position Effect ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Letter Recognition ◽  
Initial Letter ◽  
Visual Identification ◽  
Initial Fixation ◽  
Optimal Viewing Position ◽  
Possible Cause ◽  
Viewing Position

Abstract The present study provides a further exploration of the role of Arabic letter visibility as a possible cause of the Optimal Viewing Position (OVP) effect. We used isolated connected and un-connected Arabic letters of different shapes (basic, initial, medial, final) placed at the center of fixation (Experiment 1) and at various possible positions in isolated presentation (Experiment 2). In order to investigate whether performance in the visual identification task is modulated by letter type, we presented each of the isolated connected and un-connected letter targets in each of the eleven stimulus positions across the array to produce a mean RT (ms) for each of the letter types. Using the initial fixation paradigm enabled us to compare reaction times with correctly identified letter targets appearing in the different possible positions. The findings of the present experiments demonstrated that visual letter recognition is influenced by: (i) the isolated letters’ type (connected, un-connected), as connected letters are easier to recognize than un-connected letters; (ii) isolated letters’ shape (basic, initial, medial, final), as medial and final are harder to recognize than basic and initial letter shapes; (iii) visual field, as reading rates were longer for letter stimuli that were presented in LVF compared to RVF; and (iv) eccentricity, as letter reading rates were correlated with their eccentric placement.

An Optimal Viewing Position Effect in the Stroop Task When Only One Letter Is the Color Carrier

2007 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 273-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben A. Parris ◽  
Dinkar Sharma ◽  
Brendan Weekes
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Visual Word Recognition ◽  
Stroop Task ◽  
Position Effect ◽  
Automatic Processing ◽  
Stroop Interference ◽  
Single Letter ◽  
Visual Word ◽  
Optimal Viewing Position ◽  
Viewing Position

Abstract. Coloring only a single letter in the Stroop task can result in a reduction or elimination of Stroop interference. The present experiments were designed to test whether this modulation of Stroop interference occurs at all letter positions. Specifically, we investigated whether Stroop interference was reduced when the colored letter occupied the optimal viewing position (OVP). The experiments show that Stroop interference is not reduced at the OVP (Experiment 1) and that Stroop interference at the OVP is significantly greater than at other letter positions (Experiments 1 and 2). This finding has important theoretical and methodological consequences for studies of automatic processing in visual word recognition.

scholarly journals The Optimal Viewing Position effect in the lower visual field

2013 ◽  
Vol 76 ◽  
pp. 114-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Yao-N’Dré ◽  
Eric Castet ◽  
Françoise Vitu
Keyword(s):  
Visual Field ◽  
Position Effect ◽  
Lower Visual Field ◽  
Optimal Viewing Position ◽  
Viewing Position

scholarly journals Aging and the optimal viewing position effect in Chinese

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pingping Liu ◽  
Danlu Liu ◽  
Buxin Han ◽  
Kevin B. Paterson
Keyword(s):  
Position Effect ◽  
Optimal Viewing Position ◽  
Viewing Position
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