Word Misperception, the Neighbor Frequency Effect, and the Role of Sentence Context: Evidence from Eye Movements

Autor/in	Slattery, Timothy J.
Titel	Word Misperception, the Neighbor Frequency Effect, and the Role of Sentence Context: Evidence from Eye Movements
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35 (2009) 6, S.1969-1975 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0096-1523
DOI	10.1037/a0016894
Schlagwörter	Eye Movements; Language Processing; Word Recognition; Word Frequency; Sentences; College Students; Massachusetts + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Augenbewegung; Sprachverarbeitung; Worterkennung; Word analysis; Frequency; Wortanalyse; Häufigkeit; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Collegestudent; Master-Studiengang
Abstract	An eye movement experiment was conducted to investigate whether the processing of a word can be affected by its higher frequency neighbor (HFN). Target words with an HFN (birch) or without one (spruce) were embedded into 2 types of sentence frames: 1 in which the HFN (birth) could fit given the prior sentence context, and 1 in which it could not. The results suggest that words can be misperceived as their HFN, and that top-down information from sentence context strongly modulates this effect. Implications for models of word recognition and eye movements during reading are discussed. (Contains 7 footnotes and 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10