Browsing by Author "Perea, Manuel"
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Are go/no-go tasks preferable to two-choice tasks in response time experiments with older adults?
Perea, Manuel; Devis, Ester; Marcet, Ana; Gomez, Pablo (Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 2016)Recent research has shown that, in response time (RT) tasks, the go/no-go response procedure produces faster (and less noisy) RTs and fewer errors than the two-choice response procedure in children, although these ... -
Contextual diversity facilitates learning new words in the classroom
Rosa, Eva; Tapia, José Luis; Perea, Manuel (PLoS ONE, 2017)In the field of word recognition and reading, it is commonly assumed that frequently repeated words create more accessible memory traces than infrequently repeated words, thus capturing the word-frequency effect. ... -
Contextual diversity favors the learning of new words in children regardless of their comprehension skills
Rosa, Eva; Salom, Rafael; Perea, Manuel (ELSEVIER, 2022)Recent research has shown the benefits of high contextual diversity, defined as the number of different contexts in which a word appears, when incidentally learning new words. These benefits have been found both in ... -
Deaf readers benefit from lexical feedback during orthographic processing
Gutierrez-Sigut, Eva; Vergara-Martínez, Marta; Perea, Manuel (Scientific Reports, 2019)It has been proposed that poor reading abilities in deaf readers might be related to weak connections between the orthographic and lexical-semantic levels of processing. Here we used event related potentials (ERPs), known ... -
Do alternating-color words facilitate reading aloud text in Chinese? Evidence with developing and adult readers
Perea, Manuel; Wang, Xiaoyun (Memory & Cognition, 2017)Prior research has shown that colors induce perceptual grouping and, hence, colors can be used as word dividers during reading (Pinna & Deiana, 2014). This issue is particularly important for those writing systems that do ... -
Do Diacritical Marks Play a Role at the Early Stages of Word Recognition in Arabic?
Perea, Manuel; Abu Mallouh, Reem; Mohammed, Ahmed; Khalifa, Batoul; Carreiras, Manuel (Frontiers in Psychology, 2016)A crucial question in the domain of visual word recognition is whether letter similarity plays a role in the early stages of visual word processing. Here we focused on Arabic because in this language there are various ... -
Do handwritten words magnify lexical effects in visual word recognition?
Perea, Manuel; Gil-López, Cristina; Beléndez, Victoria; Carreiras, Manuel (The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2016)An examination of how the word recognition system is able to process handwritten words is fundamental to formulate a comprehensive model of visual word recognition. Previous research has revealed that the magnitude of ... -
Does consonant–vowel skeletal structure play a role early in lexical processing? Evidence from masked priming
Is the specific consonant–vowel (CV) letter combination of a word a basic source of information for lexical access in the early stages of processing? We designed two masked priming lexical decision experiments to respond ... -
Does letter rotation slow down orthographic processing in word recognition?
Perea, Manuel; Marcet, Ana; Fernández-López, María (Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2018)Leading neural models of visual word recognition assume that letter rotation slows down the conversion of the visual input to a stable orthographic representation (e.g., local detectors combination model; Dehaene, Cohen, ... -
Does Location Uncertainty in Letter Position Coding Emerge Because of Literacy Training?
Perea, Manuel; Jiménez, María; Gómez, Pablo (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016)In the quest to unveil the nature of the orthographic code, a useful strategy is to examine the transposed-letter effect (e.g., JUGDE is more confusable with its base word, JUDGE, than the replacement-letter nonword ... -
Does narrator variability facilitate incidental word learning in the classroom?
Tapia, José Luis; Rocabado, Francisco; Vergara-Martínez, Marta; Perea, Manuel (SPRINGER, 2022)Recent studies have revealed that presenting novel words across various contexts (i.e., contextual diversity) helps to consolidate the meaning of these words both in adults and children. This effect has been typically ... -
Does orthographic processing emerge rapidly after learning a new script?
Fernández-López, María; Marcet, Ana; Perea, Manuel (British Journal of Psychology, 2021)Orthographic processing is characterized by location-invariant and location-specific processing (Grainger, 2018): (1) strings of letters are more vulnerable to transposition effects than the strings of symbols in same-different ... -
Does the Visual Attention Span Play a Role in Reading in Arabic?
Lallier, Marie; Abu Mallouh, Reem; Mohammed, Ahmed M.; Khalifa, Batoul; Perea, Manuel; Carreiras, Manuel (Scientific Studies of Reading, 2018)It is unclear whether the association between the visual attention (VA) span and reading differs across languages. Here we studied this relationship in Arabic, where the use of specific reading strategies depends on the ... -
Does visual letter similarity modulate masked form priming in young readers of Arabic?
Perea, Manuel; Abu Mallouh, Reem; Mohammed, Ahmed; Khalifa, Batoul; Carreiras, Manuel (Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2018)We carried out a masked priming lexical decision experiment to study whether visual letter similarity plays a role during the initial phases of word processing in young readers of Arabic (fifth graders). Arabic is ideally ... -
Inhibitory Control for Emotional and Neutral Scenes in Competition: An Eye-Tracking Study in Bipolar Disorder
García-Blanco, Ana; Salmerón, Ladislao; Perea, Manuel (Biological Psychology, 2017)This study examined the inhibitory control of attention to social scenes in manic, depressive, and euthymic episodes of bipolar disorder (BD). Two scenes were simultaneously presented (happy/threatening/neutral [target] ... -
Is VIRTU4L Larger Than VIR7UAL? Automatic Processing of Number Quantity and Lexical Representations in Leet Words
García-Orza, Javier; Piñeiro, Ana; Comesaña, Montserrat; Soares, Ana Paula; Perea, Manuel (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016)Recent research has shown that leet words (i.e., words in which some of the letters are replaced by visually similar digits; e.g., VIRTU4L) can be processed as their base words without much cost. However, it remains unclear ... -
Lexical and Sublexical Skills in Children's Literacy
Acha Morcillo, Joana ; Ibaibarriaga Fernández, Gorka; Rodríguez Fernández, Nuria; Perea, Manuel (SAGE, 2024)Letter knowledge and word identification are key skills for reading and spelling. Letter knowledge facilitates the application of sublexical letter-sound mappings to decode words. With reading experience, word identification ... -
Matrices of the frequency and similarity of Arabic letters and allographs
Boudelaa, Sami; Perea, Manuel; Carreiras, Manuel (Behavior Research Methods, 2020)Indicators of letter frequency and similarity have long been available for Indo-European languages. They have not only been pivotal in controlling the design of experimental psycholinguistic studies seeking to determine ... -
On the nature of consonant/vowel differences in letter position coding: Evidence from developing and adult readers
Comesaña, Montserrat; Soares, Ana P.; Marcet, Ana; Perea, Manuel (British Journal of Psychology, 2016)In skilled adult readers, transposed-letter effects (jugde-JUDGE) are greater for consonant than for vowel transpositions. These differences are often attributed to phonological rather than orthographic processing. To ... -
The ERP signature of the contextual diversity effect in visual word recognition
Vergara-Martínez, Marta; Comesaña, Montserrat; Perea, Manuel (Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 2017)Behavioral experiments have revealed that words appearing in many different contexts are responded to faster than words that appear in few contexts. Although this contextual diversity (CD) effect has been found to be ...