Lexical processing in children and adults during word copying.
Lexical processing in children and adults during word copying.
Copying text may seem trivial, but the task itself is psychologically complex. It involves a series of sequential visual and cognitive processes, which must be co-ordinated; these include visual encoding, mental representation and written production. To investigate the time course of word processing during copying, we recorded eye movements of adults and children as they hand-copied isolated words presented on a classroom board. Longer and lower frequency words extended adults' encoding durations, suggesting whole word encoding. Only children's short word encoding was extended by lower frequency. Though children spent more time encoding long words compared to short words, gaze durations for long words were extended similarly for high- and low-frequency words. This suggested that for long words children used partial word representations and encoded multiple sublexical units rather than single whole words. Piecemeal word representation underpinned copying longer words in children, but reliance on partial word representations was not shown in adult readers
children, copying, eye tracking, reading, working memory
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Laishley, A.E.
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Kirkby, Julie
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Liversedge, Simon P.
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Laishley, A.E.
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Kirkby, Julie
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Liversedge, Simon P.
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Laishley, A.E., Kirkby, Julie and Liversedge, Simon P.
(2014)
Lexical processing in children and adults during word copying.
Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 27 (5), .
(doi:10.1080/20445911.2014.991396).
Abstract
Copying text may seem trivial, but the task itself is psychologically complex. It involves a series of sequential visual and cognitive processes, which must be co-ordinated; these include visual encoding, mental representation and written production. To investigate the time course of word processing during copying, we recorded eye movements of adults and children as they hand-copied isolated words presented on a classroom board. Longer and lower frequency words extended adults' encoding durations, suggesting whole word encoding. Only children's short word encoding was extended by lower frequency. Though children spent more time encoding long words compared to short words, gaze durations for long words were extended similarly for high- and low-frequency words. This suggested that for long words children used partial word representations and encoded multiple sublexical units rather than single whole words. Piecemeal word representation underpinned copying longer words in children, but reliance on partial word representations was not shown in adult readers
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e-pub ahead of print date: 20 December 2014
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children, copying, eye tracking, reading, working memory
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