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Gegenfurtner, Andreas; Lehtinen, Erno; Saljo, Roger – Educational Psychology Review, 2011
This meta-analysis integrates 296 effect sizes reported in eye-tracking research on expertise differences in the comprehension of visualizations. Three theories were evaluated: Ericsson and Kintsch's ("Psychol Rev" 102:211-245, 1995) theory of long-term working memory, Haider and Frensch's ("J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cognit" 25:172-190, 1999)…
Descriptors: Expertise, Reaction Time, Eye Movements, Attention
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Woollams, Anna M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2005
A current area of controversy within the literature on visual word recognition concerns the extent to which semantic information influences the computation of phonology. Experiment 1 revealed that both the imageability effect and the ambiguity advantage seen in the speeded naming task are confined to words with atypical mappings between spelling…
Descriptors: Semantics, Phonology, Figurative Language, Word Recognition