Transfer effects from language processing to visual attention dynamics: The impact of orthographic transparency
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Wiley
Materia
Bilingualism Lexical Local attention Phonological Transparency Writing
Fecha
2022-09-18Referencia bibliográfica
Iniesta, A... [et al.] (2022). Transfer effects from language processing to visual attention dynamics: The impact of orthographic transparency. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 00, 1– 22. [https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12598]
Patrocinador
Doctoral Research Grant, Spanish Government FPU16/01748; Feder Andalucia A-CTS111-UGR18 P20.00107; Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades-Fondos Feder A-SEJ-416-UGR20 PID2019-111359GB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 PGC2018-093786-B-I00Resumen
The consistency between letters and sounds varies across
languages. These differences have been proposed to be
associated with different reading mechanisms (lexical vs.
phonological), processing grain sizes (coarse vs. fine) and
attentional windows (whole words vs. individual letters). This
study aimed to extend this idea to writing to dictation. For
that purpose, we evaluated whether the use of different types
of processing has a differential impact on local windowing
attention: phonological (local) processing in a transparent
language (Spanish) and lexical (global) processing of an
opaque language (English). Spanish and English monolinguals
(Experiment 1) and Spanish–English bilinguals (Experiment
2) performed a writing to dictation task followed by a
global–local task. The first key performance showed a critical
dissociation between languages: the response times (RTs)
from the Spanish writing to dictation task was modulated
by word length, whereas the RTs from the English writing
to dictation task was modulated by word frequency and age
of acquisition, as evidence that language transparency biases
processing towards phonological or lexical strategies. In
addition, after a Spanish task, participants more efficiently
processed local information, which resulted in both the benefit
of global congruent information and the reduced cost of
incongruent global information. Additionally, the results
showed that bilinguals adapt their attentional processing
depending on the orthographic transparency.