Local strategic control of information in visual word recognition

Strategic Eeects in Visual Word Recognition

Visual lexical stress information in audiovisual spoken-word recognition

Listeners use suprasegmental auditory lexical stress information to resolve the competition words engage in during spoken-word recognition. The present study investigated whether (a) visual speech provides lexical stress information, and, more importantly, (b) whether this visual lexical stress information is used to resolve lexical competition. Dutch word pairs that differ in the lexical stres...

Visual word recognition: evidence for global and local control over semantic feedback.

Two lexical decision experiments examined the joint effects of stimulus quality, semantic context, and cue-target associative strength when all factors were intermixed in a block of trials. Both experiments found a three-way interaction. Semantic context and stimulus quality interacted when associative strength between cue-target pairs was strong, and the interaction was eliminated when the str...

Evidence of Strategic Processing during Word Recognition

All 95 undergraduates in this study decided if letter strings formed real words or not. Word meaning (ambiguous, unambiguous words) was manipulated within subjects while stimulus proportion (proportion of ambiguous and unambiguous words) was manipulated between subjects. These factors interacted, suggesting that strategic factors influence word recognition. These results support the view that w...

Semantic Information Extraction with a Thesaurus for Visual Word Recognition

The use of a structural representation for semantic information to improve the performance of a text recognition algorithm is proposed. Semantic constraints are modeled by the graph of connections in a thesaurus, where the thesaurus consists of root words that point to lists of related words. The alternatives produced by a word hypothesization routine are looked up in the thesauruS and activati...