1. English Theme 3 Sample presentation (2)
Date:
Room: 8-309
Instructor: Mafuyu Kitahara
Material: Balota D. A. (1994) “Visual word recognition” in M. A. Gernsbacher (ed.) Handbook of Psycholinguistics, pp , San Diego: Academic Press.

2. 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

3. 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

4. Pandemonium 3 steps Problem 28 feature demons
Cognitive demons for each letter
Decision demon
Problem
Glue?
Distortion?
Hand writing?
Can read?
Word-level?