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On the noisy spatiotopic encoding of word positions during reading: Evidence from the change-detection task

The present study builds on our prior work showing evidence for noisy word-position coding in an immediate same-different matching task. In that research, participants found it harder to judge that two successive brief presentations of five-word sequences were different when the difference was cause...

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Autores principales: Pegado, Felipe, Grainger, Jonathan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7870601/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33037584
http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-020-01819-3
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description The present study builds on our prior work showing evidence for noisy word-position coding in an immediate same-different matching task. In that research, participants found it harder to judge that two successive brief presentations of five-word sequences were different when the difference was caused by transposing two adjacent words compared with different word replacements – a transposition effect. Here we used the change-detection task with a 1-s delay introduced between sequences – a task thought to tap into visual short-term memory. Concurrent articulation was used to limit the contribution of active rehearsal. We used standard response-time (RT) and error-rate analyses plus signal detection theory (SDT) measures of discriminability (d’) and bias (c). We compared the transposition effects for ungrammatical word sequences and nonword sequences observed with these different measures. Although there was some evidence for transposition effects with nonwords, the effects were much larger with word sequences. These findings provide further support for the hypothesized noisy assignment of word identities to spatiotopic locations along a line of text during reading.
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spelling pubmed-78706012021-02-16 On the noisy spatiotopic encoding of word positions during reading: Evidence from the change-detection task Pegado, Felipe Grainger, Jonathan Psychon Bull Rev Brief Report The present study builds on our prior work showing evidence for noisy word-position coding in an immediate same-different matching task. In that research, participants found it harder to judge that two successive brief presentations of five-word sequences were different when the difference was caused by transposing two adjacent words compared with different word replacements – a transposition effect. Here we used the change-detection task with a 1-s delay introduced between sequences – a task thought to tap into visual short-term memory. Concurrent articulation was used to limit the contribution of active rehearsal. We used standard response-time (RT) and error-rate analyses plus signal detection theory (SDT) measures of discriminability (d’) and bias (c). We compared the transposition effects for ungrammatical word sequences and nonword sequences observed with these different measures. Although there was some evidence for transposition effects with nonwords, the effects were much larger with word sequences. These findings provide further support for the hypothesized noisy assignment of word identities to spatiotopic locations along a line of text during reading. Springer US 2020-10-09 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7870601/ /pubmed/33037584 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-020-01819-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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title_fullStr On the noisy spatiotopic encoding of word positions during reading: Evidence from the change-detection task
title_full_unstemmed On the noisy spatiotopic encoding of word positions during reading: Evidence from the change-detection task
title_short On the noisy spatiotopic encoding of word positions during reading: Evidence from the change-detection task
title_sort on the noisy spatiotopic encoding of word positions during reading: evidence from the change-detection task
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7870601/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33037584
http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-020-01819-3
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