PSY374H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Smooth Pursuit, Speed Reading, Spoken Word
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E. g. dog: log, fog, dig, dug, dot, etc. Note: orthographic neighbor (visual) phonological neighbor (sound). The oo sounds in both words are not the same way when a word changes: Note: people take longer to notice if 2 words rhyme if their spelling is quite different than if the spelling is similar. Inkblot words: use the knowledge of a language to identify a word even if parts of it are blocked. People are better at determining what the word is when it is shown as part of a real word. But in principle, the 3rd condition should have been the slowest one b/c you have to process extra letters. The flow of information is not unidirectional: the presence of a word in your lexicon reinforces the activation of that word. 1st and last 2 letters are in original position. Only words with 4+ letters are affected: most function words are not affected.
