PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Word Superiority Effect, Agnosia, Parietal Lobe

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Harvey Marmurek

Document Summary

Inability to assemble the various aspects of an input into an organized whole. Word recognition: object recognition does begin with the detection of simple features, separate mechanism are needed to put features together. The word superiority effect: word superiority effect the data pattern in which research participants are more accurate and more efficient in recognizing words than they are in recognizing individual letters. Degree of well-formedness (cid:862)fike(cid:863) (cid:862)lafe(cid:863: strings like these do produce context effect, the more english like string is, the easier it will be to recognize that string and the greater the context benefit the string will produce. Making errors: a letter will be easier to recognize if it appears in a well-formed sequence, not if it appears in a random sequence. The feature net and well-formedness: bigram detectors detectors of letter pairs, hypothetical units in a recognition system that respond or fire whenever a specific pair is in view.