Transposition and substitution letter effects in a flanker task: Evidence from children and adults

Several studies have shown that parafoveal processing is essential in reading development. In this study, we explore the effect of transposing and substituting inner and outer letters in a flanker lexical decision task administered to 78 children and 65 adults. The results show a significant interac...

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Autores: Lázaro López-Villaseñor, Miguel, García, Lorena, Martínez, Alfonso, Moraleda Sepúlveda, Esther
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/118366
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/118366
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Children
Flanker task
Orthographic processing
Parafoveal processing
Transposition effect
Logopedia
Psicolingüística
6104.04 Psicolingüística
6104.01 Procesos Cognitivos
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Sumario:Several studies have shown that parafoveal processing is essential in reading development. In this study, we explore the effect of transposing and substituting inner and outer letters in a flanker lexical decision task administered to 78 children and 65 adults. The results show a significant interaction between the Group factor and the Flanker factor, suggesting differences in the effects of flankers for children and adults. In the case of adults, transposed and substituted letters generated benefit of the same magnitude in comparison with the unrelated condition, but of lesser magnitude than the Identity condition. In the case of children, the results show facilitation for the transposed conditions of the same magnitude as the Identity condition. However, the substitution conditions failed to generate any benefit in comparison with the unrelated condition. The results for the adults are in line with the predictions of the open bigram model, whereas the results for the children are explained through a developmental perspective of the dual-route architecture and open bigram framework.