Perceptual Constraints on Word Recognition Flashcards
What does W.E.I.R.D stand for?
Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, Democratic
What is a drawback about “W.E.I.R.D” research
The language research is overly focused on English and doesn’t take into account the diversity of other world languages
What does W.E.I.R.D research need to consider
The effect across language and culture
How does the Eye process information?
Light passes through the Cornea and is focused by the lens as an inverted image on retina
What is the Retina composed of ?
Photoreceptor cells
What types of Photoreceptor cells are there?
Roads and Cones
Where is vision sharpest?
In the fovea
When does Retinal acuity decline?
When there is an increase in distance from the centre of the fovea
What is the “Optimal Viewing Position”
The place where a reader maximises the information from words
What does OVP stand for?
Optimal Viewing Position
What are the OVP effects for Arabic words?
The OVP for the Arabic language is when they are fixated at the centre
Why is the OVP for the English language to the left of the centre?
Because usually the most informative part of words are the beginning and that makes readers fixate on it
Why does the OVP effect for English and Arabic differ?
Arabic and Hebrew words have a non-concatenative morphology, meaning that the most informative part of the word is spread throughout the word.
What does it mean when a word has non-concatenative morphology
When the most informative letters of the word are spread throughout the word rather than simply at the beginning
What is Perceptual span?
The amount of visual information that is processed in a given fixation
