Kevin Flashcards
Optimal viewing position for an English word by O’reagan
-between start and middle of word
-the left of the word as that’s the most informative
Optimal viewing position for an arabic word by Jordan et al
-centre of word as core info spread out
lateral projections
something seen on the left processed on the right side of the brain
words that are seen in right visual field recognised in left side of the brain - for right handed people that’s more efficient then seeing stuff in left visual field - RIGHT VISUAL FIELD ADVANTAGE
split fovea theory
hemispheric division up to point of fixation: C*AKE - brain makes sense of these 2 separate compartments and communicates it across the corpus callous so that it can be combined into the left hemisphere
word-superiority effect
describes benefit for recognising letters in words
Reicher-Wheeler task: evidence for word superiority effect, ps recognise letters better in a word than presented alone.
lexicon
holds these abstract representations of all the words we know
bottom-up driven flow
see features, those features activate the letters and the letters activate the word candidates. letters first then words second
top-down processing
use knowledge of words to interpret letters. so words first - letters second
winner takes all network
person only reads one word due to
orthographic neighbours
words that share letters in different locations WAVE WAKE
syntax
rules of word order in a sentence
syntactic structure
describes the grammatical composition of a sentence
globally ambiguous sentence
more than one meaning of the sentence
garden path theory
first decision when processing a word is the grammar and syntax - ignore the meaning of the word (minimal attachment)
