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Orthographic consistency and parafoveal preview benefit: A resource-sharing account of language differences in processing of phonological and semantic codes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2012

Jochen Laubrock  and
Sven Hohenstein
Jochen Laubrock
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany. laubrock@uni-potsdam.de http://www.psych.uni-potsdam.de/people/laubrock/index-e.html sven.hohenstein@uni-potsdam.de http://www.psych.uni-potsdam.de/people/hohenstein/index-e.html
Sven Hohenstein
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany. laubrock@uni-potsdam.de http://www.psych.uni-potsdam.de/people/laubrock/index-e.html sven.hohenstein@uni-potsdam.de http://www.psych.uni-potsdam.de/people/hohenstein/index-e.html
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Abstract

Parafoveal preview benefit (PB) is an implicit measure of lexical activation in reading. PB has been demonstrated for orthographic and phonological but not for semantically related information in English. In contrast, semantic PB is obtained in German and Chinese. We propose that these language differences reveal differential resource demands and timing of phonological and semantic decoding in different orthographic systems.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 35 , Issue 5 , October 2012 , pp. 292 - 293
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