Publications by authors named "Christophe Cauchi"

Five flanked lexical decision experiments investigated the integration of information across spatially distinct letter strings. Experiment 1 found no significant difference between quadrigram flankers (e.g.

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  • Recent research indicates that recognizing target words is improved by related flanker words, and this study investigates how this effect develops in children and adults using the flankers task.
  • The study involved two groups of primary school children (around ages 8 and 10) and adults, examining how different relationships (stems vs. derivatives) between target and flanker words affected recognition.
  • Results showed that while adults benefited from morphological relatedness, the two groups of children did not, suggesting that understanding of morphological processing grows over several years and that the complexity of word forms influences younger children's abilities.
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A common notion is that during the first stages of learning to read, attention is narrowly focused so as to encompass only a single or a few letters. In skilled adult readers, however, attention extends beyond single words. The latter is evidenced by faster recognition of words that have many letters in common with surrounding words, along with correlations between such integration effects and measures of attention.

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Does phonology contribute to effects of orthographically related flankers in the flankers task? In order to answer this question, we implemented the flanker equivalent of a pseudohomophone priming manipulation that has been widely used to demonstrate automatic phonological processing during visual word recognition. In Experiment 1, central target words were flanked on each side by either a pseudohomophone of the target (e.g.

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