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View article: The impact of handwriting and typing on the reading acquisition process: a study using an unfamiliar orthography
The impact of handwriting and typing on the reading acquisition process: a study using an unfamiliar orthography Open
Although there is evidence of a negative impact of typing on letter learning in prereaders, it remains unclear how writing letters and words—either by hand or typing—affects reading acquisition. One possibility is that typing attenuates th…
View article: Transposed-letter priming effects in Arabic-English bilinguals: shifting toward a default orthographic processing mode
Transposed-letter priming effects in Arabic-English bilinguals: shifting toward a default orthographic processing mode Open
How does bilingualism affect orthographic processing across languages with different structures? This study investigates masked transposed-letter (TL) priming in Arabic-English bilinguals, comparing Arabic (a Semitic language with rigid or…
View article: How does vertical reading affect saccade programming and lexical processing in the Roman script?
How does vertical reading affect saccade programming and lexical processing in the Roman script? Open
Although computational models of eye movement control in reading have focused on horizontal text layouts, vertically oriented text is also encountered in daily life in the Roman script. To examine the interplay between saccade programming …
View article: SUBTLEX-AR: Arabic word distributional characteristics based on movie subtitles
SUBTLEX-AR: Arabic word distributional characteristics based on movie subtitles Open
This article presents SUBTLEX-AR, a digital database providing an extensive collection of attributes related to Modern Standard Arabic words (Arabic for short). SUBTLEX-AR combines a novel dataset of 120 million word tokens from movie subt…
View article: The impact of handwriting and typing practice in children’s letter and word learning: Implications for literacy development
The impact of handwriting and typing practice in children’s letter and word learning: Implications for literacy development Open
Recent research has revealed that the substitution of handwriting practice for typing may hinder the initial steps of reading development. Two hypotheses for the detrimental effect of typing are (a) reduced graphomotor activity and (b) red…
View article: Voice processing ability predicts second-language phoneme learning in early bilingual adults
Voice processing ability predicts second-language phoneme learning in early bilingual adults Open
Individuals differ greatly in their ability to learn the sounds of second languages, even when learning starts early in life. Recent research has suggested that the ability to identify the idiosyncratic acoustic variations introduced into …
View article: Catching a CAPTCHA: the impact of variable input on the processing of emerging orthographic representations
Catching a CAPTCHA: the impact of variable input on the processing of emerging orthographic representations Open
Variability inherent to handwriting has been suggested to help establish more robust letter representations than other methods (e.g., typing). The present study tests whether encoding letter strings from a novel alphabet becomes more resis…
View article: Are the early stages of orthographic processing universal? Insights from masked priming with Semitic words
Are the early stages of orthographic processing universal? Insights from masked priming with Semitic words Open
Two views contend to account for the processes at play during the early stages of visual word recognition. The first holds that these stages are not modulated by the idiosyncratic properties of different languages. The second maintains tha…
View article: Dissociating the Effects of Visual Similarity for Brand Names and Common Words
Dissociating the Effects of Visual Similarity for Brand Names and Common Words Open
ionist models of visual word recognition can easily accommodate the absence of visual similarity effects in misspelled common words (e.g., viotin vs. viocin) during lexical decision tasks. However, these models fail to account for the siza…
View article: Individual differences in word skipping during reading in English as L2
Individual differences in word skipping during reading in English as L2 Open
The Multilingual Eye-movement Corpus (MECO; Siegelman et al., 2022) contains data from unbalanced bilinguals reading in their first language (L1) for a variety of languages and in English as their second language (L2). We analyzed word ski…
View article: Visual word identification beyond common words: The role of font and letter case in brand names
Visual word identification beyond common words: The role of font and letter case in brand names Open
While abstractionist theories of visual word recognition propose that perceptual elements like font and letter case are filtered out during lexical access, instance-based theories allow for the possibility that these surface details influe…
View article: Visual similarity effects in the identification of Arabic letters: evidence with masked priming
Visual similarity effects in the identification of Arabic letters: evidence with masked priming Open
Research using masked priming and parafoveal preview techniques has shown that visual letter similarity has an impact on word processing during the initial stages in Latin-derived scripts. However, these effects appear to be absent in Arab…
View article: Lexical and Sublexical Skills in Children's Literacy
Lexical and Sublexical Skills in Children's Literacy Open
Letter knowledge and word identification are key skills for reading and spelling. Letter knowledge facilitates the application of sublexical letter-sound mappings to decode words. With reading experience, word identification becomes a key …
View article: Breathing Life Into Meta-Analytic Methods
Breathing Life Into Meta-Analytic Methods Open
Meta-analyses have become indispensable in the behavioral sciences, combining and summarizing data from multiple studies. While they offer many advantages (e.g., increased power, higher generality, and resolving conflicting findings), they…
View article: Reading(,) with and without commas
Reading(,) with and without commas Open
All major writing systems mandate the use of commas to separate clauses and list items. However, casual writers often omit mandatory commas. Little empirical or theoretical research has been done on the effect that omitting mandatory comma…
View article: The role of letter knowledge acquisition ability on children's decoding and word identification: Evidence from an artificial orthography
The role of letter knowledge acquisition ability on children's decoding and word identification: Evidence from an artificial orthography Open
Background Letter knowledge is crucial in the first stages of reading development. It supports learning letter‐sound mappings and the identification of the letters that make up words. Previous studies have investigated the longitudinal imp…
View article: One more trip to Barcetona: on the special status of visual similarity effects in city names
One more trip to Barcetona: on the special status of visual similarity effects in city names Open
Previous research has shown that, unlike misspelled common words, misspelled brand names are sensitive to visual letter similarity effects (e.g., is often recognized as a legitimate brand name, but not ). This pattern poses problems for th…
View article: Breaking the boundaries: the power of ligatures in visual-word recognition
Breaking the boundaries: the power of ligatures in visual-word recognition Open
Introduction Current neurobiological-inspired models of visual-word recognition propose that letter detectors in the word recognition system can tolerate some variations in the visual form of the letters. However, it is unclear whether thi…
View article: Misspelled Logotypes: The Hidden Threat to Brand Identity
Misspelled Logotypes: The Hidden Threat to Brand Identity Open
Brand names are valuable company assets often accompanied by a unique graphical composition (i.e., as logotypes). Recent research has demonstrated that this uniqueness makes brand names and logotypes susceptible to counterfeiting through m…
View article: A Letter is a Letter and its Co-Occurrences: Cracking the Emergence of Position-Invariance Processing
A Letter is a Letter and its Co-Occurrences: Cracking the Emergence of Position-Invariance Processing Open
Visual word recognition requires encoding letter identities and positions (orthographic processing). The present study focuses on the emergence of the mechanism responsible for encoding letter order in a word: position invariance. Reading …