English Theme 3 Sample presentation (2) Date: 2007-05-01 Room: 8-309 Instructor: Mafuyu Kitahara Material: Balota D. A. (1994) “Visual word recognition” in M. A. Gernsbacher (ed.) Handbook of Psycholinguistics, pp. 303-358, San Diego: Academic Press.
Classic Variables Variables: things/numbers you can measure in an experiment Frequency: H=”law”, L=”linguistics” Familiarity: (as for me) H=”linguistics”, L=”lawyer” Meaningfulness: nonword=not meaningful Context: letters/words around the target
Features Feature: basic, primitive, smaller units Evidence Horizontal lines, vertical lines, closed curves, open curves, intersections, cyclic redundancy... Evidence Behavior: easily explained by features Confusion among similar letters Easier searching among non-similar letters Neurological: cells sensitive to primitive features Cats raised in vertical environment PET study on human
Pandemonium 3 steps Problem 28 feature demons Cognitive demons for each letter Decision demon Problem Glue? Distortion? Hand writing? Can read? Word-level?