Psychology 2134A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Speech Recognition, Reading Disability, Language Disorder

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Graphemes or groups of letters used to denote a single sound/phoneme. Eye movements and reading: people do not fixate on each individual word, regression is looking back to an earlier word that you missed or misunderstood, also called backwards saccades, parafoveal previewing allows us to skip words. Missing letter effect: count the fs, finished files are the results of years of scientific study. Combined with the experience of many years: skilled readers skip over predictable words and thus cannot track the letters in those words. Measuring lexical processes: lexical decision tasks, deciding whether a letter string is a real word, have, mave, asrmp, xxxxx. Frequency, length: slower recognition for lower frequency words (shorter latency for more common/frequently used words, great (high freq. ) vs. peat (low freq. , length effects, longer words are slower to recognize, woo < weatherproof (both have same frequency!)

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