Processing complex graphemes in handwriting production

Recent studies on handwriting production and neuropsychological data have suggested that orthographic representations are multilevel structures that encode information on letter identity and order, but also on intermediate-grained processing units such as syllables and morphemes. This study on handw...

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Published in:Memory & cognition 2010-09, Vol.38 (6), p.762-770
Main Authors: Kandel, Sonia, Spinelli, Elsa
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Attention
Behavioral Science and Psychology
Biological and medical sciences
Cognitive Psychology
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Handwriting
Humanities and Social Sciences
Humans
Language
Letters
Linguistics
Male
Neuropsychology
Phonetics
Phonology
Production and perception of written language
Psycholinguistics
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Reaction Time
Semantics
Spelling
Studies
Young Adult
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Summary:Recent studies on handwriting production and neuropsychological data have suggested that orthographic representations are multilevel structures that encode information on letter identity and order, but also on intermediate-grained processing units such as syllables and morphemes. This study on handwriting production examined whether orthographic representations also include a graphemic-processing level. French adults wrote words containing an embedded one-, two-, or three-letter grapheme (e.g., a in clavier , ai in prairie , ain in plainte ) on a digitizer. The results for letter duration revealed that the timing of movement processing depends on grapheme length (e.g., the duration of a for one-letter graphemes was shorter than that for two-letter graphemes, which, in turn, was shorter than that for three-letter graphemes). Two- and three-letter graphemes start to be processed before we start to write them. The results therefore revealed that orthographic representations also encode information on grapheme complexity.
ISSN:0090-502X
1532-5946
DOI:10.3758/MC.38.6.762