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- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2010 American Psychological Association
- ISSN
- 0033-295x
- eISSN
- 1939-1471
- DOI
- 10.1037/a0019738
- pmid
- 20658851
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Visual word identification requires readers to code the identity and order of the letters in a word and match this code against previously learned codes. Current models of this lexical matching process posit context-specific letter codes in which letter representations are tied to either specific serial positions or specific local contexts (e.g., letter clusters). The spatial coding model described here adopts a different approach to letter position coding and lexical matching based on context-independent letter representations. In this model, letter position is coded dynamically, with a scheme called spatial coding. Lexical matching is achieved via a method called superposition matching, in which input codes and learned codes are matched on the basis of the relative positions of their common letters. Simulations of the model illustrate its ability to explain a broad range of results from the masked form priming literature, as well as to capture benchmark findings from the unprimed lexical decision task.
Journal
Psychological Review – American Psychological Association
Published: Jul 1, 2010