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Title: | Letters away from the looking glass: Developmental trajectory of mirrored and rotated letter processing within words |
Authors: | Fernandes, Tânia Velasco, Sofia Leite, Isabel |
Editors: | Bortfeld, Heather Messinger, Daniel Singh, Leher |
Keywords: | letter representation masked priming mirror images orthographic processing reading development visual word recognition |
Issue Date: | Aug-2023 |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Citation: | Fernandes, T., Velasco, S., & Leite, I. (2023). Letters away from the looking glass: Developmental trajectory of mirrored and rotated letter processing within words. Developmental Science
https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13447 |
Abstract: | The present study investigated when, in reading development, mirror-image discrimination becomes automatic during visual word recognition. The developmental trajectory of masked priming effects was investigated from 2nd to 6th grade and in adults, by manipulating letter type (nonreversible; reversible) and prime condition (control; identity; mirrored; rotated). Standardized identity priming increased along reading development. Beginning readers showed mirror invariance during reversible and nonreversible letter processing. A mirror cost (slower word recognition in mirrored-letter than identity
prime condition) was found by 5th-grade but only for reversible letters. By 6th grade, orthographic processing was no longer captive of mirror invariance. A multiple linear regression showed that letter representations, but not phonological processes or age, were a reliable predictor of the rise of mirror-image discrimination in 2nd–4th-graders.
The present results suggest a protracted development of automatic mirror-image discrimination during orthographic processing, contingent upon the quality of abstract letter representations. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10174/38194 |
Type: | article |
Appears in Collections: | PSI - Publicações - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais Com Arbitragem Científica
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