Unmasking individual differences in adult reading procedures by disrupting holistic orthographic perception

Word identification is undeniably important for skilled reading and ultimately reading comprehension. Interestingly, both lexical and sublexical procedures can support word identification. Recent cross-linguistic comparisons have demonstrated that there are biases in orthographic coding (e.g., holis...

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Published in:PloS one 2020-05, Vol.15 (5), p.e0233041-e0233041
Main Authors: Hirshorn, Elizabeth A, Simcox, Travis, Durisko, Corrine, Perfetti, Charles A, Fiez, Julie A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Bias
Bilingualism
Biology and Life Sciences
Chinese languages
Coding
Cognition & reasoning
Comparative linguistics
Comprehension
English language
Female
Humans
Identification
Individual differences
Individual differences (Psychology)
Individuality
Information processing
Language
Linguistic research
Linguistics
Male
Orientation
Orientation behavior
Orthography
Pattern recognition
Pattern Recognition, Visual
Phonetics
Phonology
Physical Sciences
Prejudice
R&D
Reaction Time
Reading
Reading comprehension
Reading skills
Research & development
Research and Analysis Methods
Semantics
Sensitivity
Sensitivity analysis
Social Sciences
Studies
Visual perception
Visual processing
Vocabulary
Word recognition
Words (language)
Writing systems
Young Adult
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Summary:Word identification is undeniably important for skilled reading and ultimately reading comprehension. Interestingly, both lexical and sublexical procedures can support word identification. Recent cross-linguistic comparisons have demonstrated that there are biases in orthographic coding (e.g., holistic vs. analytic) linked with differences in writing systems, such that holistic orthographic coding is correlated with lexical-level reading procedures and vice versa. The current study uses a measure of holistic visual processing used in the face processing literature, orientation sensitivity, to test individual differences in word identification within a native English population. Results revealed that greater orientation sensitivity (i.e., greater holistic processing) was associated with a reading profile that relies less on sublexical phonological measures and more on lexical-level characteristics within the skilled English readers. Parallels to Chinese procedures of reading and a proposed alternative route to skilled reading are discussed.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0233041