Transfer effects from language processing to visual attention dynamics: The impact of orthographic transparency.

ABSTRACT: The consistency between letters and sounds varies across languages. These differences have been proposed to be associated with different reading mechanisms (lexical vs. phonological), processing grain sizes (coarse vs. fine) and attentional windows (whole words vs. individual letters). This study aimed to extend this idea to writing to dictation. For that purpose, we evaluated whether the use of different types of processing has a differential impact on local windowing attention: phonological (local) processing in a transparent language (Spanish) and lexical (global) processing of an opaque language (English). Spanish and English monolinguals (Experiment 1) and Spanish-English bilinguals (Experiment 2) performed a writing to dictation task followed by a global-local task. The first key per

SUBMITTER: Iniesta A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10087185 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature