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Direct linkGenisio, Vanessa; Bastien-Toniazzo, Mireille – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2003
Two tasks of word identification were proposed to children in their last year of upper preschool classes. The results show that identification is not based on an holistic processing but on an analytic one: some letters are enough, especially the first ones. Moreover, their order does not matter. During this period where reading is visuo-semantic…
Descriptors: Semantics, Identification, Cognitive Processes, Visual Perception
Yee, Eiling; Sedivy, Julie C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
Two experiments explore the activation of semantic information during spoken word recognition. Experiment 1 shows that as the name of an object unfolds (e.g., lock), eye movements are drawn to pictorial representations of both the named object and semantically related objects (e.g., key). Experiment 2 shows that objects semantically related to an…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Word Recognition, Semantics, Language Research
