word reading and holistic processing

In recent years, paradigms in the face recognition literature have been adopted to reveal holistic processing in word recognition. It is unknown, however, whether different measures of holistic word processing share similar underlying mechanisms, and whether fluent word reading relies on holistic word processing. We measured holistic processing effects in three paradigms (composite, configural sensitivity, part-whole) as well as in reading fluency (3DM task: reading aloud high- and low-frequency words and pseudowords).

近年来，人脸识别研究领域中的实验范式被引入词汇识别（word recognition）领域，用以揭示词汇识别中的整体加工（holistic processing）机制。然而目前仍存在两个尚未明确的问题：其一，不同的词汇整体加工测量范式是否共享相似的底层认知机制；其二，流畅性词汇阅读是否依赖于词汇整体加工过程。本研究采用三种实验范式（复合范式（composite）、构型敏感性范式（configural sensitivity）、部分-整体范式（part-whole））以及阅读流畅性任务（3DM任务：朗读高频率、低频率词汇与假词（pseudowords）），对词汇整体加工效应进行了测量。