Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
Mem Cognit. 2012 Nov;40(8):1276-88. doi: 10.3758/s13421-012-0223-3.
This study was designed to clarify the nature of the mental representations underlying the processing of letters. A total of 96 Hebrew readers randomly recruited from three levels of education were asked to make rapid same/different judgments for Hebrew letter dyads with monosyllabic and bisyllabic names. The results obtained from the performance of participants under perceptual and conceptual processing conditions suggest that Hebrew readers access nominal letter representations in order to mediate letter processing in tasks that cannot be resolved on the basis of a sheer perceptual analysis of the letters' visual properties. The finding that the retrieval of nominal letter representations was evident for participants who differed rather markedly in their letter-processing speeds highlights the central role of letter names in the processing of isolated letters.
本研究旨在阐明字母加工所依赖的心理表象的本质。我们随机招募了来自三个教育水平的 96 名希伯来语读者，要求他们对具有单音节和双音节名称的希伯来语字母对偶进行快速相同/不同判断。在感知和概念加工条件下参与者表现的结果表明，希伯来语读者访问名词字母表象，以便在不能仅基于对字母视觉属性的纯粹感知分析来解决任务的情况下，对字母加工进行调解。对于在字母处理速度上差异相当明显的参与者，名词字母表象的检索非常明显，这一发现突出了字母名称在孤立字母处理中的核心作用。
