The transposed word effect is consistent with serial word recognition and varies with reading speed.

ABSTRACT: The scientific study of reading has long been animated by questions of parallel vs. serial processing. Do readers recognize words serially, adding each one sequentially to a representation of the sentence structure? One fascinating phenomenon to emerge from this research is the transposed word effect: when asked to judge whether sentences are grammatical, readers often fail to notice grammatical errors caused by transposing two words. This effect could be evidence that readers recognize multiple words in parallel. Here we provide converging evidence that the transposed word effect is also consistent with serial processing because it occurs robustly when the words in each sentence are presented serially. We further investigated how the effect relates to individual differences in reading spe

SUBMITTER: Hossain J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10527089 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature