When (not how much) is WIRD like WORD?

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titleWhen (not how much) is WIRD like WORD?
start_date2013/06/14
schedule11h-12h
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summaryOne contemporary focus of research on how people identify written or printed words is stimuli that partially match a target word. Models of visual word identification largely assume that the relevant phenomena should be explained by an online computation of the balance of matching and mismatching parts, with graded variation from perfectly matching to perfectly mismatching; mutual inhibition between words selects the correct alternative. An alternative account --- implemented in my Letters in Time and Retinotopic Space model --- is that different types of mismatch are identified at differing rates, and the correct alternative is that with no mismatch. I present the model and its fits to previous identification and nonword-primed lexical decision data. I also consider the evidence for mutual inhibition between words. Finally, I present a new mega-study of nonword-primed lexical decision, and consider its implications for the model.
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