Visual Word Recognition

Question 1

What are the different types of stimuli?

Answer 1

Regular words - real, may be stored in lexicon
Non-words - put together workable graphemes
Irregular words - don’t follow spelling to sound mapping, need store to pronounce
Homophones - measure semantic input

Question 2

What are the 2 models of word recognition?

Answer 2

Dual route model (Coltheart et al, 1997)
Connectionist model (Plaut, 1997)

Question 3

What are the types of typical reading errors?

Answer 3

Regularisation - regularise irregular words
Semantic errors - one word appears but different, related word read
Visual errors - similar letters lead to different, but visually similar word read

Question 4

How can regularisation errors be explained using different models

Answer 4

Dual - grapheme-phoneme conversion
Connectionist - not enough semantic input

Question 5

How can semantic errors be explained using different models

Answer 5

Dual - lexical route -> bypass orthology & phoneme level
Connectionist - overlap in semantic mental space

Question 6

How can visual errors be explained using different models

Answer 6

Dual - not enough semantic inputs, not non-lexical, common neighbour
Connectionist - overlapping orthographic mental space