Rastle, K;
Lally, C;
Lee, CH;
(2019)
No flexibility in letter position coding in Korean.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
, 45
(4)
pp. 458-473.
10.1037/xhp0000617.
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Abstract
Substantial research across Indo-European languages suggests that readers display a degree of uncertainty in letter position coding. For example, readers perceive transposed-letter stimuli, such as jugde, as similar to their base words (e.g., judge). However, tolerance to disruptions of letter order is not apparent in all languages, suggesting that critical aspects of the writing system may shape the nature of position coding. We investigated readers' tolerance to these disruptions in Korean, a writing system characterized by a high degree of orthographic confusability. Results of three Korean masked priming experiments revealed robust identity priming effects, but no indication of priming due to shared letters or syllables in different positions. Two further masked priming experiments revealed where the Korean findings deviate from English. These results support the claim that the nature of the writing system influences the precision of orthographic representations used in reading. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | No flexibility in letter position coding in Korean |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1037/xhp0000617 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.apa.org/doi/10.1037/xhp0000617 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Adult, Female, Humans, Male, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Perceptual Masking, Psycholinguistics, Reading, Recognition, Psychology, Republic of Korea, Young Adult |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10126025 |
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