Symbol-string sensitivity and adult performance in lexical decision

K Pammer; R Lavis; C Cooper; PC Hansen; PL Cornelissen

doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2005.01.004

Symbol-string sensitivity and adult performance in lexical decision

K Pammer, R Lavis, C Cooper, PC Hansen, PL Cornelissen

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Abstract

In this study of adult readers, we used a symbol-string task to assess participants' sensitivity to the position of briefly presented, non-alphabetic but letter-like symbols. We found that sensitivity in this task explained a significant proportion of sample variance in visual lexical decision. Based on a number of controls, we show that this relationship cannot be explained by other factors including: chronological age, intelligence, speed of processing and/or concentration, short term memory consolidation, or fixation stability. This approach represents a new way to elucidate how, and to what extent, individual variation in pre-orthographic visual and cognitive processes impinge on reading skills, and the results suggest that limitations set by visuo-spatial processes constrain visual word recognition. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	278-296
Number of pages	19
Journal	Brain and Language
Volume	94
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2005.01.004
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2005

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