Kabil, Mariam (2022) The Effect of Non-word Head Frequency on Letter Position Binding in Word Recognition. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
This thesis serves as a follow-up in a series of studies investigating position-specific letter recognition based on a conceptual network. To assess letter recall accuracy, an nth-letter task for words and non-words (random string of letters) was utilized. Previous studies have found an unexpected relative peak in letter recall accuracy at the third position in Dutch non-words, that could not be attributed to a manipulation of attention by a centered warning cue on the target position. As upon a visual inspection of the Dutch non-words that elicited the relative peak in performance, it was found that these non-words had quite common head frequencies (i.e., the first three letters in a five-letter sequence made up the beginning of several common Dutch words), the study at hand is investigating the role of head frequency on German (non-) words. The results of the study showed a significant effect for the high head frequency, as it elicited better letter recall accuracy for non-words in comparison with non-words with a low head frequency. Furthermore, the findings of the present study are in support of the serial binding process of the conceptual network, however, some violations of the expected decay pattern need further explorations to fully confirm the processes proposed by the model. Keywords: word- and letter recognition, conceptual network, serial binding, nth-letter task
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Vries, P.H. de |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Jul 2022 06:39 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Jul 2022 06:39 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1074 |
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