scholarly journals The word-superiority effect does not depend on one's ability to identify the letter string as a word

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 410-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. M. Fine
Keyword(s):  
Letter String ◽  
Word Superiority Effect ◽  
Superiority Effect

Letter Identification in Words and Non-Words, with Variation in Visual Angle and Delay of Position Cue

Perception ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert T Solman
Keyword(s):  
Serial Position ◽  
Letter String ◽  
Visual Angle ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Word Superiority Effect ◽  
Letter Identification ◽  
Superiority Effect ◽  
Critical Letter ◽  
Contextual Constraint ◽  
Perceptual Locus

Two experiments are described in which subjects were required to report the name of a single position-cued ‘critical’ letter in a tachistoscopically displayed string of four letters. The stimulus characters were arranged to form three types of letter strings: (i) strings in which the letters did not form words; (ii) words in which contextual constraint of the critical letters was minimised; and (iii) words in which contextual constraint of the critical letters was maximised. The serial position of the letter to be identified in each string was cued at delays of −500, −100, and +500 ms, in experiment 1 and at delays of −510 and +510 ms in experiment 2, and in both experiments one group of subjects responded to letter strings which subtended a horizontal visual angle of 3·95 deg, while a second group responded to strings which subtended 1·02 deg. Correct identifications of critical letters showed that the presentation of words resulted in superior performance. This ‘word superiority effect’ is consistent with earlier findings implying that it has a perceptual locus. For the stimuli which subtended the large visual angle the word advantage was detrimentally affected only when the position of the critical letter to be identified was cued either 500 or 510 ms prior to the display of the letter string.

An analysis of the word-superiority effect

1973 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Baron ◽  
Ian Thurston
Keyword(s):  
Word Superiority Effect ◽  
Superiority Effect

Perceptual and lexical effects in letter identification: An event-related potential study of the word superiority effect

2006 ◽  
Vol 1098 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clara D. Martin ◽  
Tatjana Nazir ◽  
Guillaume Thierry ◽  
Yves Paulignan ◽  
Jean-François Démonet
Keyword(s):  
Event Related Potential ◽  
Word Superiority Effect ◽  
Letter Identification ◽  
Superiority Effect ◽  
Potential Study ◽  
Lexical Effects

Identification of Letters in the Predesignated Target Paradigm: A Word Superiority Effect for the Common Word the

1990 ◽  
Vol 103 (3) ◽  
pp. 299 ◽  
Author(s):  
David H. Peterzell ◽  
Grant P. Sinclair ◽  
Alice F. Healy ◽  
Lyle E. Bourne
Keyword(s):  
Common Word ◽  
Word Superiority Effect ◽  
Superiority Effect ◽  
The Common

scholarly journals Target position and practice in the identification of letters in varying contexts: A word superiority effect

1976 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 412-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas H. Carr ◽  
Stephen W. Lehmkuhle ◽  
Brian Kottas ◽  
Eileen C. Astor-Stetson ◽  
Drew Arnold
Keyword(s):  
Target Position ◽  
Word Superiority Effect ◽  
Superiority Effect

scholarly journals Visual angle and the word superiority effect

1978 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean G. Purcell ◽  
Keith E. Stanovich ◽  
Amos Spector
Keyword(s):  
Visual Angle ◽  
Word Superiority Effect ◽  
Superiority Effect

Lexical factors in the word-superiority effect

1995 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Hildebrandt ◽  
David Caplan ◽  
Scott Sokol ◽  
Lisa Torreano
Keyword(s):  
Word Superiority Effect ◽  
Superiority Effect ◽  
Lexical Factors
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