Processing capacity in a letter-matching task.

A comparison of letter and digit processing in letter-by-letter reading.

The extent to which letter-by-letter reading results from a specific orthographic deficit, as compared with a nonspecific disturbance in basic visuoperceptual mechanisms, is unclear. The current study directly compared processing of letters and digits in a letter-by-letter reader, G.M., using a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) task and a speeded matching task. Comparisons were made to a ...

Task demands modulate sustained and transient neural activity during visual-matching tasks.

The extent to which a task demands verbal or non-verbal processing may influence which neural regions underlie performance. In the present study, sustained and transient responses were examined using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in conjunction with a mixed blocked/event-related design during three visual-matching tasks that varied in the extent to which they relied on verbal pro...

Using the letter decision task to examine semantic priming

The present research investigates semantic priming with an adapted version of the word fragment completion task. The letter decision task, as we will call it, holds some advantages over the traditionally used lexical decision task in that it eliminates retrospective semantic matching effects, it avoids the need to construct pseudowords, it is more engaging for participants and it enhances seman...

Relative Clause Ambiguity Resolution in L1 and L2: Are Processing Strategies Transferred?

This study aims at investigating whether Persian native speakers highly advanced in English as a second language (L2ers) can switch to optimal processing strategies in the languages they know and whether working memory capacity (WMC) plays a role in this respect. To this end, using a self-paced reading task, we examined the processing strategies 62 Persian speaking proficient L2ers used to read...

A processing division on the recency axis: the selective effects of visual field, match type, and direction of reading on terminal and pre-terminal items in a letter matching task.