How do Scrabble players encode letter position during reading?

  1. Manuel Perea 1
  2. Ana Marcet 1
  3. Pablo Gómez 2
  1. 1 Universitat de València
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    Universitat de València

    Valencia, España

    ROR https://ror.org/043nxc105

  2. 2 DePaul University
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    DePaul University

    Chicago, Estados Unidos

    ROR https://ror.org/04xtx5t16

Revue:
Psicothema

ISSN: 0214-9915

Année de publication: 2016

Volumen: 28

Número: 1

Pages: 7-12

Type: Article

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Résumé

Antecedentes: en experimentos con lectores adultos, las pseudopalabras creadas por transposición de letras (v.g., CHOLOCATE) se confunden frecuentemente con su palabra base. Por ejemplo, en tareas de decisión léxica (“¿es el estímulo una palabra?”), los tiempos de respuesta son mayores y con mayor porcentaje de errores para CHOLOCATE que para su control ortográfico CHOTONATE (es decir, un efecto de transposición de letras). Método: en el presente experimento examinamos los procesos de codificación de la posición de las letras en individuos particularmente expertos en el procesamiento ortográfico-léxico: jugadores de Scrabble de competición. Para ello, se realizó un experimento de decisión léxica con dos tipos de pseudopalabras (vía transposición de letras [CHOLOCATE] vs. vía sustitución de letras [CHOTONATE]). Resultados: si bien los jugadores expertos de Scrabble muestran un efecto de transposición de letras, la magnitud del efecto es mucho menor que en estudiantes universitarios no entrenados a Scrabble, en particular para los datos de precisión. Conclusiones: en los modelos de reconocimiento visual de palabras, la flexibilidad en la codificación de la posición de las letras en palabras debe ser modulada por la destreza en el procesamiento ortográfico-léxico.

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