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Fournet, Colas; Mirault, Jonathan; Perea, Manuel; Grainger, Jonathan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
In four experiments, we investigated the impact of letter case (lower case vs. UPPER CASE) on the processing of sequences of written words. Experiment 1 used the rapid parallel visual presentation (RPVP) paradigm with postcued identification of one word in a five-word sequence. The sequence could be grammatically correct (e.g., "the boy likes…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Reading Processes, Word Recognition, Punctuation
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Lupker, Stephen J.; Acha, Joana; Davis, Colin J.; Perea, Manuel – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
In most current models of word recognition, the word recognition process is assumed to be driven by the activation of letter units (i.e., that letters are the perceptual units in reading). An alternative possibility is that the word recognition process is driven by the activation of grapheme units, that is, that graphemes, rather than letters, are…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Evidence, Priming, Word Recognition