visual word recognition

what are the jumps our eyes make during reading called?

saccades
what is the word superiority effect?

better recognition for letters in words compared to isolated letters
if a word has a high neighbourhood effect, what does this mean?

that there are many other words that can be produced by changing one letter
what are the 2 stages in Forster's serial search model (1976)?
- 1. search in serial for location of lexical entry
- 2. retrieve information about entry
Is Forster's serial search model autonomous or parallel?

Autonomous, word identification is separate from retrieval of semantic info
What are the 3 levels in McClelland and Rumelhart (1981) Interactive Activation Model (IAC)?
- 1. input of visual features
- 2. individual letters
- 3. output of words
What does the open bigram approach (Granger and Whitney, 2004) suggest about word recognition?

That units represent the relative position of pairs of letters in a word

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