Psychology 2134A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Orthographic Depth, Fusiform Gyrus, Visual Cortex

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2134A/B
• Professor: Sarah Smits- Bandstra

Document Summary

Italian and german are also thought to have shallow orthography: french and english are considered to have deep orthography, at the deep end of the orthography pool is chinese. A way shallow and deep orthographies differ is in their treatment of homophones words with the same pronunciation but different meanings. Homographs words that are spelled the same but pronounced differently. Research suggests that the visual word form area begins with the component strokes of written words and then resembles them into familiar combinations. The average duration of a fixation is about 200 milliseconds. Missing letter effect the observation that skilled readers skip over predictable words and thus cannot track the letters in those words. The perceptual span is measured by the gaze contingency paradigm an experimental procedure in which a narrow window of text surrounding the fixation point is displayed on a computer screen.