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Developmental differences in the influence of orthographic and phonological information in visual word recognition
Author(s) -
Rusted Jennifer
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
british journal of developmental psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.062
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 2044-835X
pISSN - 0261-510X
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-835x.1989.tb00789.x
Subject(s) - psychology , spelling , stroop effect , orthography , word recognition , stimulus (psychology) , facilitation , priming (agriculture) , lexico , cognitive psychology , linguistics , cognition , reading (process) , philosophy , botany , germination , neuroscience , biology
In a modified Stroop colour‐naming task, words which were semantically unassociated with the colour names, but which shared sound and spelling characteristics with those names, produced Stroop‐like facilitation and inhibition in groups of college students, 12‐ and 8‐year‐olds. When the stimulus words rhymed with the colour names but were orthographically dissimilar, effects were observed only for the 8‐year‐olds. The pattern of results suggests that phonological and orthographic characteristics of a word are available rapidly enough, in visual word recognition, to affect colour naming. For older subjects, the pattern of effects is consistent with lexical priming. For the younger subjects, the effects are attributed to the continued influence of grapheme‐phoneme translation rules in establishing production codes for word naming.