Watching the Word Go by: On the Time-course of Component Processes in Visual Word Recognition

By Jonathan Grainger, Phillip J. Holcomb. Language and Linguistics Compass, 2009

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We describe a functional architecture for word recognition that focuses on how orthographic and phonological information cooperates in initial form-based processing of printed word stimuli prior to accessing semantic information. Component processes of orthographic processing and orthography-to-phonology translation are described, and the behavioral evidence in favor of such mechanisms is briefly summarized. Our theoretical framework is then used to interpret the results of a large number of recent experiments that have combined the masked priming paradigm with electrophysiological recordings. These experiments revealed a series of components in the event-related potential (ERP), thought to reflect the cascade of underlying processes involved in the transition from visual feature extraction to semantic activation. We provide a tentative mapping of ERP components onto component processes in the model, hence specifying the relative time-course of these processes and their functional significance.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Bilinguals reading in their second language do not predict upcoming words as native readers do (2013, background): “…a lexical item and its orthographic representation are actively predicted, orthographic overlap (or non-overlap) between the predicted lexical item and the actual word presented in the sentence should modulate orthographic processing stages ([200–300] ms time-window; see Grainger & Holcomb, 2009).”
Reading Difficulties in Adult Deaf Readers of French: Phonological Codes, Not Guilty! (2012, background): “The model also proposes that orthographic codes are activated 20 to 30 ms before phonological codes (see Grainger & Holcomb, 2009, for a review).”