DEVELOPMENT OF VISUAL INFORMATION-PROCESSING SKILLS RELATED TO READING

被引:43
作者
JUOLA, JF
SCHADLER, M
CHABOT, RJ
MCCAUGHEY, MW
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基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1016/0022-0965(78)90069-3
中图分类号
B844 [发展心理学(人类心理学)];
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040202 ;
摘要
Literate adults can use their familiarity with specific words and their knowledge of English orthography to facilitate word recognition processes. The development of word superiority effects in visual perception was investigated in the present study using a search task with kindergarten (5.7 years old), second (8.0 years old), and fourth grade children (10.0 years old), and college students. The search task consisted of the visual presentation of a target letter followed by a three-, four-, or five-letter display. The target letter was included in the display on half the trials, and the displays were common words, orthographically regular pseudowords, and irregular nonwords. Although response times decreased with age, the three oldest groups showed similar effects for the size and structure of the displays. That is, response times increased linearly with the number of display letters, and responses were faster for word and pseudoword displays than for nonwords. The data for the kindergarten children showed evidence for the use of a different search strategy, and they did not respond differentially to the three types of displays. The results are discussed in terms of the implications for developmental models of visual search and word superiority effects in visual perception. © 1978.
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页码:459 / 476
页数:18
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