The Statistical Reader: The Role of Orthographic Regularities in Reading

Available online 14 April 2025

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Autores: Siegelman, Noam, Armstrong, Blair C., Raz, Yaakov, Frost, Ram
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Universidad del País Vasco
Repositorio:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
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Palabra clave:reading
statistical learning
information theory
prediction
orthography
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spelling The Statistical Reader: The Role of Orthographic Regularities in ReadingSiegelman, NoamArmstrong, Blair C.Raz, YaakovFrost, Ramreadingstatistical learninginformation theorypredictionorthographyAvailable online 14 April 2025Recent statistical learning views of reading posit that writing systems present to their readers a wide range of statistical regularities which are leveraged to process printed texts. While substantial research has focused on the “vertical” correlations between orthographic, phonological, and semantic units in a given writing system, here we employ information-theoretic measures to further consider “horizontal” regularities—the extent to which printed units predict and are predicted by other printed units, in one writing system compared to another. As a first step, we present a novel information-theoretic measure that captures how horizontal regularities constrain lexical access given the distribution of orthographic information in a writing system and considering realistic retinal and cognitive constraints. We then present a series of empirical studies serving as proof of concept, from both single-word reading experiments and analyses of eye movements during naturalistic reading, which examine how a reader who has internalized these regularities could leverage them for efficient uncertainty reduction regarding printed information while reading on-the-fly. Our findings converge on high-order general principles fleshed out in terms of explicit computational mechanisms that simultaneously apply to a wide range of writing systems and that can potentially explain behavioral outcomes across the trajectory of reading development and reading skill. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)This article was supported by the following grants: The Israel Science Foundation, Grant 705/20 awarded to Ram Frost; the Israel Science Foundation, Grant 1034/23 awarded to Noam Siegelman; an Azrieli Foundation, Early Career Faculty Fellowship awarded to NoamSiegelman; and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Grant DG 502584 awarded to Blair C. Armstrong. This research was also funded in part by the European Commission (Grant 692502-L2STAT) awarded to Ram Frost. For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright license to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.APA202520252025info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/74561reponame:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigacióninstname:Universidad del País VascoInglésinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/ERC/692502-L2STAThttps://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/xgeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess© 2025 American Psychological Associationoai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/745612026-06-18T09:23:17Z
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title The Statistical Reader: The Role of Orthographic Regularities in Reading
spellingShingle The Statistical Reader: The Role of Orthographic Regularities in Reading
Siegelman, Noam
reading
statistical learning
information theory
prediction
orthography
title_short The Statistical Reader: The Role of Orthographic Regularities in Reading
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title_fullStr The Statistical Reader: The Role of Orthographic Regularities in Reading
title_full_unstemmed The Statistical Reader: The Role of Orthographic Regularities in Reading
title_sort The Statistical Reader: The Role of Orthographic Regularities in Reading
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Armstrong, Blair C.
Raz, Yaakov
Frost, Ram
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Armstrong, Blair C.
Raz, Yaakov
Frost, Ram
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Raz, Yaakov
Frost, Ram
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statistical learning
information theory
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orthography
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statistical learning
information theory
prediction
orthography
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