Department of Psychology, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, New York, United States of America.
Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2020 May 26;15(5):e0233041. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0233041. eCollection 2020.
Word identification is undeniably important for skilled reading and ultimately reading comprehension. Interestingly, both lexical and sublexical procedures can support word identification. Recent cross-linguistic comparisons have demonstrated that there are biases in orthographic coding (e.g., holistic vs. analytic) linked with differences in writing systems, such that holistic orthographic coding is correlated with lexical-level reading procedures and vice versa. The current study uses a measure of holistic visual processing used in the face processing literature, orientation sensitivity, to test individual differences in word identification within a native English population. Results revealed that greater orientation sensitivity (i.e., greater holistic processing) was associated with a reading profile that relies less on sublexical phonological measures and more on lexical-level characteristics within the skilled English readers. Parallels to Chinese procedures of reading and a proposed alternative route to skilled reading are discussed.
毋庸置疑，单词识别对于熟练阅读，乃至阅读理解而言至关重要。有趣的是，词法和次词法程序都可以辅助单词识别。最近的跨语言比较研究表明，拼写法编码（例如整体法与分析法）存在与书写系统差异相关的偏向，整体法拼写法编码与词法层面的阅读程序相关，反之亦然。本研究使用了面孔加工文献中用于测量整体视觉加工的一项指标——朝向敏感性，来检验以英语为母语的人群中的个体在单词识别方面的差异。结果表明，更大的朝向敏感性（即更强的整体加工能力）与一种阅读模式相关，这种模式较少依赖于次词法的语音测量，而更多地依赖于熟练英语阅读者的词法层面特征。文中还探讨了与汉字阅读过程的相似性以及一种可能的熟练阅读的替代途径。
