Psychology 2134A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Phonological Awareness, Agraphia, Phonics
15 Apr 2016
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Masked priming study: break take, faster when they see the prime word, (not faster for broke take) Describing the mental processes involved in reading. How can we explain effects of: frequency, regularity/neighborhood, lexical influences (e. g. , priming) What does reading tell us about how the mind works: modularity, local vs. distributed information. The lexicon is organized like a list: lexical access: searching through that list. Each lexical entry is like a library book: each item is looked up using orthography or phonology, searching serially through the lexicon for the right word. Can"t account for phonological effects: assumes we don"t decode familiar words. How do we generalize to new words: mave. Coltheart (1987): an extension of forster"s (autonomous search) model. We can access the meaning of a word in several ways: orthography, phonologically. Rule-based route: grapheme phoneme correspondence rules. Nonword reading is fast and easy: so we have a spelling-sound route.
