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

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Abstract

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.

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Hirshorn, E. A., Simcox, T., Durisko, C., Perfetti, C. A., & Fiez, J. A. (2020). Unmasking individual differences in adult reading procedures by disrupting holistic orthographic perception. PLoS ONE, 15(5). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233041

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