Aging and the Optimal Viewing Position Effect in Visual Word Recognition: Evidence From English

Words are recognized most efficiently by young adults when fixated at an optimal viewing position (OVP), which for English is between a word’s beginning and middle letters. How this OVP effect changes with age is unknown but may differ for older adults due to visual declines in later life. According...

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Autores principales: Li, Lin, Li, Sha, Wang, Jingxin, McGowan, Victoria A., Liu, Pingping, Jordan, Timothy R., Paterson, Kevin B.
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Publicado: American Psychological Association 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5459221/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28406653
http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pag0000163
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description Words are recognized most efficiently by young adults when fixated at an optimal viewing position (OVP), which for English is between a word’s beginning and middle letters. How this OVP effect changes with age is unknown but may differ for older adults due to visual declines in later life. Accordingly, a lexical decision experiment was conducted in which short (5-letter) and long (9-letter) words were fixated at various letter positions. The older adults produced slower responses. But, crucially, effects of fixation location for each word-length did not differ substantially across age groups, indicating that OVP effects are preserved in older age.
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spelling pubmed-54592212017-06-13 Aging and the Optimal Viewing Position Effect in Visual Word Recognition: Evidence From English Li, Lin Li, Sha Wang, Jingxin McGowan, Victoria A. Liu, Pingping Jordan, Timothy R. Paterson, Kevin B. Psychol Aging Articles Words are recognized most efficiently by young adults when fixated at an optimal viewing position (OVP), which for English is between a word’s beginning and middle letters. How this OVP effect changes with age is unknown but may differ for older adults due to visual declines in later life. Accordingly, a lexical decision experiment was conducted in which short (5-letter) and long (9-letter) words were fixated at various letter positions. The older adults produced slower responses. But, crucially, effects of fixation location for each word-length did not differ substantially across age groups, indicating that OVP effects are preserved in older age. American Psychological Association 2017-04-13 2017-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5459221/ /pubmed/28406653 http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pag0000163 Text en © 2017 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article has been published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Copyright for this article is retained by the author(s). Author(s) grant(s) the American Psychological Association the exclusive right to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher.
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