Cracking the Orthographic Code

Question 1

What is the Word superiority effect

Answer 1

Evidence that letters are recognised more easily in words than in isolation

Question 2

What is the standard finding of the Word Superiority Effec?

Answer 2

Letters in words are recognised more accurately in word context

Question 3

What is the Lexical Frequency effect?

Answer 3

Evidence that words are encoded in terms of frequency of exposure

Question 4

What are readers quicker to do?

Answer 4

Recognise common over rare words

Question 5

What does the fact that readers recognise common words over rare words indicate

Answer 5

That the brain keeps track of word exposure statistics

Question 6

What is the Orthographic neighbour effect?

Answer 6

Evidence that similarity between words in terms of their letter composition, which can affect reading.

Question 7

What is the Letter transposition effect?

Answer 7

Evidence for flexibility in the encoding of letter position information