Zeading and reazing: which is faster? The position of the diverging letter in a pseudoword determines reading time.
We present evidence that (a) at least some components of the reading process are serial and (b) pseudoword reading is affected by lexical knowledge, even in a transparent orthographic system like Italian. Pseudowords deriving from five-letter words by changing either the first or the fourth letter were presented for reading aloud. Results showed an effect of the position of the diverging letter: Early diverging pseudowords were read more slowly than late diverging pseudowords. The dual-route cascaded (DRC) model (Coltheart, Rastle, Perry, Langdon, & Ziegler, 2001) successfully simulated the behavioural data.
Mulatti
Claudio
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DiSCoF, Università degli Studi di Trento, Rovereto, Italy. claudio.mulatti@unitn.it
Peressotti
Francesca
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Remo
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D006801:Humans; D011930:Reaction Time; D011932:Reading; D012660:Semantics; D014794:Visual Fields; D014796:Visual Perception; D014825:Vocabulary