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6. What effects can be observed in lab experiments?

  • Sentence context, lexical decisions
  • Frequency, sentence context, word superiority
  • People tryna be smart #WindYourNeckIn
  • Word identification, presentation issues, bias

7. The perceptual span refers to the angular span to which the human eye has sharp enough vision to read text. How far does visual field of human eye span?

  • approx. 360 BABY
  • approx. 150 degrees of arc
  • approx. 120 degrees of arc
  • approx. 90 degrees of arc

8. What two things have big effects on word recognition?

  • Frequency & context
  • Reading & listening
  • Shape & size
  • Stephen Monsell BECAUSE HE MAKES NO SENSE

9. Who, and how was the 'word identification span' explained?

  • Rayner et al.: 7 letters to right of fixation - 3 letters to left for alphabetic scripts
  • Lincoln: 4 letters to each side of fixation
  • Kelidi et al.: no one cares
  • Matthews et al.: 3 letters to right of fixation - 7 to right for alphabetic scripts

10. What is the measure: eye fixation (tracker)?

  • Eyes jump in small fixations, 8/9 characters, jump to big word in the middle
  • Forget all big words, eyes move too quickly, 10 characters at a time
  • When u stare at Prince Harry for too long
  • Slow reading, watch how words are organised

11. Who would you associate the modified serial model with?

  • Murray & Forster, 2004
  • Do u see what I've done here muahahaha #tennis
  • Forster & Williams, 2002
  • Roger & Forster, 1998
  • Forster & Henman, 1994

12. What does the modified serial model propose?

  • Mental lexicon of word-forms divided into "bins", quick process categorises spelling to select appropriate bin, then serial search WITHIN that bin
  • Trial and error, much like my life choices
  • Mental lexicon of word-forms divided into "sections", slow process categorises spelling to select appropriate section, then serial search WITHIN that bin
  • Mental lexicon of word-forms divided into "sections", slow process categorises spelling to select appropriate section, then serial search OUTSIDE that section