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| Resumo: | Holistic processing of visual words (i.e., obligatory encoding of/attending to all letters of a word) could be a marker of expert word recognition. In the present study, we thus examined for the first time whether there is a direct relation between the wordcomposite effect (i.e., all parts of a visual word are fully processed when observers perform a task on a word part) and fast access to the orthographic lexicon by visual word experts (i.e., fluent adult readers). We adopted an individual differences approach and used the word-frequency effect (i.e., faster recognition of high- than low-frequency words) in an independent lexical decision task as a proxy of fast access to lexical orthographic representations. Fluent readers with larger word-composite effect showed smaller word-frequency effect. This correlation was mainly driven by an association between a larger composite effect and faster lexical decision on low-frequency words, probably because these lexical representations are less stable and integrated/unitized, hence allowing differentiating among fluent readers. We thus showed that holistic processing of visual words is indeed related to higher efficiency in visual word recognition by skilled readers. |
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| Autores principais: | Ventura, Paulo |
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| Outros Autores: | Fernandes, Tânia; Pereira, Alexandre; Guerreiro, José Carlos; Farinha-Fernandes, António; Delgado, João; Ferreira, Miguel F.; Faustino, Bruno; Raposo, Isabel; Wong, Alan C.-N. |
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| Assunto: | Holistic word processes Lexical effects Correlation between holistic word processes and lexical effects |
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| Ano: | 2020 |
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| País: | Portugal |
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
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| Tipo de acesso: | acesso restrito |
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| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Lisboa |
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| Idioma: | inglês |
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| Origem: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
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