Aging and the optimal viewing position effect in visual word recognition: Evidence from English. | Zendy

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Aging and the optimal viewing position effect in visual word recognition: Evidence from English.

Author(s) -

Lin Li,

Sha Li,

Jingxin Wang,

Victoria A. McGowan,

Pingping Liu,

Timothy R. Jordan,

Kevin B. Paterson

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

psychology and aging

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.468

H-Index - 151

eISSN - 1939-1498

pISSN - 0882-7974

DOI - 10.1037/pag0000163

Subject(s) - psychology , psycinfo , lexical access , word recognition , eye movement , fixation (population genetics) , young adult , word (group theory) , cognition , developmental psychology , linguistics , medline , demography , population , philosophy , reading (process) , neuroscience , sociology , political science , law

Words are recognized most efficiently by young adults when fixated at an optimal viewing position (OVP), which for English is between a word's beginning and middle letters. How this OVP effect changes with age is unknown but may differ for older adults due to visual declines in later life. Accordingly, a lexical decision experiment was conducted in which short (5-letter) and long (9-letter) words were fixated at various letter positions. The older adults produced slower responses. But, crucially, effects of fixation location for each word-length did not differ substantially across age groups, indicating that OVP effects are preserved in older age. (PsycINFO Database Record

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