Bigsby P
University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
Br J Psychol. 1988 Nov;79 ( Pt 4):455-69. doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1988.tb02746.x.
Four experiments are reported which investigated the nature of the code used by normal adult readers in nominal matches. It was established that the code is not a name code but a non-visual, non-phonological, case-independent, font-independent, abstract representation: the abstract letter identity code. As nominal matches were found to be impaired when stimuli contained reversible letters from the set (Bb, Dd, Pp, Qq) it is argued that the visual processor must contain a component for checking the orientation of these letters prior to ALI assignment. Results are consistent with the theory that the ALI code is the code generated in the visual processor for use in direct lexical access. It is suggested that the four experiments might be useful in the diagnosis of any possible visual processor malfunction in impaired readers.
本文报告了四项实验，这些实验研究了正常成年读者在名义匹配中使用的编码的性质。研究确定该编码不是名称编码，而是一种非视觉、非语音、不依赖大小写、不依赖字体的抽象表征：抽象字母识别编码。由于当刺激包含集合中的可逆字母（Bb、Dd、Pp、Qq）时，名义匹配会受损，因此有人认为视觉处理器必须包含一个组件，用于在分配抽象字母识别编码之前检查这些字母的方向。结果与以下理论一致，即抽象字母识别编码是在视觉处理器中生成以供直接词汇访问使用的编码。有人提出，这四项实验可能有助于诊断阅读障碍读者中任何可能的视觉处理器故障。
