NEUR 4306 Lecture Notes - Function Word, Visual Processing, Phonics

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Neuroscience
• Course: NEUR 4306
• Professor: kim hellemans

Document Summary

Part iii of the course will consist of four lectures: lecture 09: representation of knowledge, lecture 10: mental imagery, lecture 11: comprehension: written language, lecture 12: applied cognition. We will focus on basic processes in reading: visual processing, visual word recognition. Getting words into the system involves translation of written symbols into meaning. Visual processing visual processing word recognition comprehension printed page: hh. Two assumptions: immediacy reader attempts to interpret each (content) word as it is fixated, eye-mind. Eye will remain fixated on a word as long as the word is being processed. Gaze-contingent paradigm (rayner, 1998: what happens if we cover the foveated letters such that only the parafoveal can be seen? reading rate drops from 300 wpm to 50 wpm. Skipping words (carpenter & just, 1983: when skip a word, it is usually a function word (the, and, but) skip more often with easy text. Shows, that very little of next word is pre-processed.