title: Orthographic consistency and parafoveal preview benefit: a resource-sharing account of language differences in processing of phonological and semantic codes.
abstract: Parafoveal preview benefit (PB) is an implicit measure of lexical activation in reading. PB has been demonstrated for orthographic and phonological but not for semantically related information in English. In contrast, semantic PB is obtained in German and Chinese. We propose that these language differences reveal differential resource demands and timing of phonological and semantic decoding in different orthographic systems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany. laubrock@uni-potsdam.de
authors.forename: Jochen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Laubrock
authors.forename: Sven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hohenstein
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008959:Models, Neurological; D011932:Reading; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D012660:Semantics