Bub D N, Black S, Howell J
Montreal Neurological Institute, Quebec, Canada.
Brain Lang. 1989 Apr;36(3):357-76. doi: 10.1016/0093-934x(89)90073-4.
The performance of letter-by-letter readers when attempting to decipher written material gives the impression that words fail to directly evoke any higher-level representation. As a consequence, spelling patterns appear to be treated perceptually as if they were a collection of random letters. We tested the hypothesis that words are no longer mapped onto orthographic descriptions by examining the ability of a letter-by-letter reader to identify letters in familiar words, pseudowords, and random strings. A clear effect of orthographic context was obtained on the accuracy of letter recognition, indicating that spelling patterns do gain access to more central components of the reading mechanism. The implications of this result for our understanding of the syndrome are discussed.
逐字母阅读者在尝试解读书面材料时的表现给人的印象是，单词无法直接唤起任何更高层次的表征。因此，拼写模式在感知上似乎被当作是一堆随机字母的集合来处理。我们通过考察逐字母阅读者识别熟悉单词、假词和随机字符串中字母的能力，来检验单词不再映射到正字法描述的这一假设。我们在字母识别准确性上获得了明显的正字法语境效应，这表明拼写模式确实能够进入阅读机制中更核心的部分。本文讨论了这一结果对我们理解该综合征的意义。
