Visual word recognition without central attention: Evidence for greater automaticity with greater reading ability

From: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review | Date: April 1, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

The present study examined individual differences in the automaticity of visual word recognition. Specifically, we examined whether people can recognize words while central attention is devoted to another task and how this ability depends on reading skill. A lexical-decision Task 2 was combined with either an auditory or visual Task 1. Regardless of the Task 1 modality, Task 2 word recognition proceeded in parallel with Task 1 central operations for individuals with high Nelson-Denny reading scores, but not for individuals with low reading scores. We conclude that greater lexical skill leads ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Semantic generalization of stimulus-task bindings
; ...so-called residual task shift cost. We...picture naming to word reading, using picture-word...stimuli, shifting task every second...Switching to word reading was much easier...priming effect on word reading was obtained only on task switch trials...
Task set persistence modulates word reading following resolution of picture-word interference
; ...and reading a word. For the word-reading task, words were presented either...subjects switched to the dominant word-reading task. If the word target was paired...lier in the picture-naming task, then word reading was slowed relative to when...
The effects of phonemic awareness drills on phonological awareness and word reading performance in a later learned alphabetic script.
; ...on phonological awareness and word reading performance in English of Mainland...phonemic awareness drills enhanced word reading in English; and (c) whether the...on phonological awareness and word reading was generalizable across gender...
Comparison of the effects of Spanish and English constant time delay instruction on sight word reading by Hispanic learners with mental retardation.
; ...condition in promoting English sight word reading for 3 of the 4 participants, whereas...participant. All 4 participants generalized word reading from the classroom to the natural setting...2000; Duran, 1989; Heward, 2000). Sight word reading is a staple of most functional reading...
Basic task services for real-time execution. (real-time programming part 5)(excerpt from book An Implementation Guide to Real-Time Programming) (tutorial)
; Basic task services for real-time execution A task is a complex object consisting of four basic components: 1...the form of a procedure having a single parameter. Starting a task is equivalent to calling the procedure with a given value of...
Parallel response selection in dual-task situations
; ...and response priming were studied in a dual-task procedure. In two experiments, reaction times...were faster when the finger required for the Task 1 response was the same as the finger required for the Task 2 response. Such priming suggests that Task...
Electrocortical measures during a lexical decision task: a comparison between elementary school-aged normal and dyslexic readers and adult normal and dyslexic readers.
; ...levels of accuracy but remain slow in word-reading performance (Bruck. 1998; Brunswick...1997; Vellutino & Scanlon, 1987). Word reading is based on orthographic and phonological...processes as operating interactively during word reading (Adams; Barron, 1991; Reitsma, 1989...
Modeling the response of normally achieving and at-risk first grade children to word reading instruction
; ...individual differences in responsiveness to word reading instruction in normally achieving and...subjects who exhibited limited growth in word reading skills during the first phase of the...first grade, individual differences in word reading skills are significant predictors of...
Task coordination and communication via signals. (Real-Time Programming Part 10)
; The major mechanisms for task-to-task interaction that have been described so far (event flags, messages...There is no sense of a private communication targeted to a specific task. Part 10 discusses signals, which fill this gap by permitting one...
Preparation for a forthcoming task is sufficient to produce subsequent shift costs
; Shifting from one task to another is associated with significant costs. Recently, it has been questioned whether the mere preparation for a forthcoming task, without the task's actually being executed, is sufficient to establish a new task...