PSYCH 3UU3 Lecture Notes - Speech Recognition, Lexicon, Foveal
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How do you match the particular word that you"re seeing to that which you have in your head: how do you give it form, give it meaning, connective words to make sense of the whole thing. Taking the perceptual input, organizing it, and mapping it. (slide one) Aha this percept refers to this aids with understanding meaning. Methods: used to look for visual and reading processes. Is wrindow: categorization times, is window alive or not alive, tachistochscopic identification (flash something quickly for specified amount of time . 20 ms minimum amount of time for being able to identify that word: what is the minimal time of exposure required to read window . Analysing reaction times show that we need to access different levels of a word to be able to do them! Affects both perceptual and higher level factors (including the step to access the meaning) Frequency effect the more we see, the better we are!