OPTIMAL VIEWING POSITION EFFECT IN WORD RECOGNITION - A CHALLENGE TO CURRENT THEORY
OPTIMAL VIEWING POSITION EFFECT IN WORD RECOGNITION - A CHALLENGE TO CURRENT THEORY
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DOI：
10.1037/0096-1523.18.1.185
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发表时间：
1992-02-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
JACOBS, AM
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作者：
OREGAN, JK;JACOBS, AM
通过使用长度为4，5，7，9的高频和低频字。和11个字母，它表明，所需的时间来命名一个词或决定，如果刺激是一个词或非词强烈依赖于在该词的位置，眼睛是固定在该词出现的时刻。在靠近中间或中间偏左的位置有一个最佳的观察位置。在那里花费的时间最短。对于偏离这个最佳位置的每个字母，大约20毫秒被添加到词汇决策时间或命名延迟。这种效果甚至出现在4个和5个字母的短单词中。这一效应对词识别的心理语言学研究具有理论和方法上的意义。这可能是一个有用的新工具，用它来探索单词识别模型。
Through the use of high- and low-frequency words of lengths 4, 5, 7, 9. and 11 letters, it is shown that the time it takes to name a word or to decide if a stimulus is a word or a nonword depends strongly on the position in the word where the eye is fixating at the moment the word appears. There is an optimal viewing position near the middle or slightly left of middle. where the time taken is shortest. For each letter of deviation from this optimal position, about 20 ms is added to lexical decision time or naming latency. The effect is present even in short 4- and 5-letter words. The effect has theoretical and methodological consequences for psycholinguistic studies of word recognition. It may be a useful new tool with which to probe models of word recognition.