Marcet Ana, Perea Manuel
Departamento de Metodología, Universitat de València.
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 2018 May;44(5):699-706. doi: 10.1037/xlm0000477. Epub 2017 Nov 2.
Previous research has shown that early in the word recognition process, there is some degree of uncertainty concerning letter identity and letter position. Here, we examined whether this uncertainty also extends to the mapping of letter features onto letters, as predicted by the Bayesian Reader (Norris & Kinoshita, 2012). Indeed, anecdotal evidence suggests that nonwords containing multi-letter homoglyphs (e.g., rn→m), such as docurnent, can be confusable with their base word. We conducted 2 masked priming lexical decision experiments in which the words/nonwords contained a middle letter that was visually similar to a multi-letter homoglyph (e.g., docurnent [rn-m], presiclent [cl-d]). Three types of primes were employed: identity, multi-letter homoglyph, and orthographic control. We used 2 commonly used fonts: Tahoma in Experiment 1 and Calibri in Experiment 2. Results in both experiments showed faster word identification times in the homoglyph condition than in the control condition (e.g., docurnento-DOCUMENTO faster than docusnento-DOCUMENTO). Furthermore, the homoglyph condition produced nearly the same latencies as the identity condition. These findings have important implications not only at a theoretical level (models of printed word recognition) but also at an applied level (Internet administrators/users). (PsycINFO Database Record
先前的研究表明，在单词识别过程的早期，关于字母身份和字母位置存在一定程度的不确定性。在此，我们检验了这种不确定性是否也延伸到字母特征到字母的映射上，正如贝叶斯阅读器所预测的那样（诺里斯和木下，2012）。确实，轶事证据表明，包含多字母同形字（如rn→m）的非单词，如docurnent，可能会与它们的基础单词混淆。我们进行了两项掩蔽启动词汇判断实验，其中单词/非单词包含一个在视觉上与多字母同形字相似的中间字母（如docurnent [rn-m]，presiclent [cl-d]）。使用了三种类型的启动词：身份启动词、多字母同形字启动词和正字法控制启动词。我们使用了两种常用字体：实验1中使用的Tahoma和实验2中使用的Calibri。两个实验的结果都表明，同形字条件下的单词识别时间比控制条件下更快（如docurnento-DOCUMENTO比docusnento-DOCUMENTO更快）。此外，同形字条件产生的潜伏期与身份条件几乎相同。这些发现不仅在理论层面（印刷单词识别模型）有重要意义，而且在应用层面（互联网管理员/用户）也有重要意义。（《心理学文摘数据库记录》
