TY - JOUR
T1 - Perception is a two-way street
T2 - Feedforward and feedback phonology in visual word recognition
AU - Stone, Greg
AU - Vanhoy, Mickie
AU - Van Orden, Guy C.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank all the people who provided helpful comments on the earlier talk version of this project—especially Steve Goldinger at A.S.U. and Don Shankweiler at Haskins. We also thank Iris Berent, Anny Bosman, Steve Goldinger, Art Jacobs, Marian Jansen op de Haar, and Jo Ziegler for useful feedback on earlier manuscripts. Ken Forster and two anonymous reviewers provided helpful suggestions in their reviews. This research was supported in part by a National Institute of Health FIRST award (CMS 5 R29 NS26247-05) to Guy Van Orden. Address correspondence and reprint requests to Gregory O. Stone, Cognitive Systems Group, Psychology Department, Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-1104.
PY - 1997/4
Y1 - 1997/4
N2 - The influence of phonology on visual word perception tasks is often indexed by the presence or absence of consistency effects. Consistency concerns whether there exists more than one way to pronounce a spelling body (e.g.,_INT as in HINT and PINT versus_EAP as in HEAP and LEAP). The present study considers a similar factor. Feedback consistency concerns whether there is more than one way to spell a pronunciation body (e.g., /_ip/ as in HEAP and DEEP versus /_Ob/ as in PROBE and GLOBE). Two experiments demonstrate a robust feedback consistency effect in visual lexical decision. Words with phonologic bodies that can be spelled more than one way (e.g.,_EAP as in HEAP) produce slower correct "yes" responses than words with phonologic bodies that can be spelled only one way (e.g.,_OBE as in PROBE). This result constitutes strong support for feedback, top-down models of performance in word perception tasks. Furthermore, the data suggest that previous tests of consistency effects may be misleading because they did not take into account feedback consistency.
AB - The influence of phonology on visual word perception tasks is often indexed by the presence or absence of consistency effects. Consistency concerns whether there exists more than one way to pronounce a spelling body (e.g.,_INT as in HINT and PINT versus_EAP as in HEAP and LEAP). The present study considers a similar factor. Feedback consistency concerns whether there is more than one way to spell a pronunciation body (e.g., /_ip/ as in HEAP and DEEP versus /_Ob/ as in PROBE and GLOBE). Two experiments demonstrate a robust feedback consistency effect in visual lexical decision. Words with phonologic bodies that can be spelled more than one way (e.g.,_EAP as in HEAP) produce slower correct "yes" responses than words with phonologic bodies that can be spelled only one way (e.g.,_OBE as in PROBE). This result constitutes strong support for feedback, top-down models of performance in word perception tasks. Furthermore, the data suggest that previous tests of consistency effects may be misleading because they did not take into account feedback consistency.
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U2 - 10.1006/jmla.1996.2487
DO - 10.1006/jmla.1996.2487
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0031116003
SN - 0749-596X
VL - 36
SP - 337
EP - 359
JO - Journal of Memory and Language
JF - Journal of Memory and Language
IS - 3
ER -