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Perea, Manuel; Jiménez, María; Gomez, Pablo – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
In the quest to unveil the nature of the orthographic code, a useful strategy is to examine the transposed-letter effect (e.g., JUGDE is more confusable with its base word, JUDGE, than the replacement-letter nonword JUPTE). A leading explanation of this phenomenon, which is in line with models of visual attention, is that there is perceptual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Alphabets, Coding, Preschool Children
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Perea, Manuel; Lupker, Stephen J. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2004
Nonwords created by transposing two "adjacent" letters (i.e., transposed-letter (TL) nonwords like "jugde") are very effective at activating the lexical representation of their base words. This fact poses problems for most computational models of word recognition (e.g., the interactive-activation model and its extensions), which assume that exact…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Word Recognition, Models, Lexicology