Auditory Word Serial Recall Benefits from Orthographic Dissimilarity

Pattamadilok, Chotiga; Lafontaine, Hélène; Morais, José; Kolinsky, Régine

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“…Damian and Bowers (2003) reported a facilitative effect even when the stimuli were presented auditorily in their Experiment 3. Recent evidence suggests that orthographic information is activated in word learning when words are presented in their spoken form (Johnston et al 2004;Pattamadilok et al 2010Pattamadilok et al , 2007, indicating that orthography and phonology may be closely linked to each other in spoken word recognition. In addition, Pattamadilok et al (2007) found that the orthographic information is activated in spoken words recognition in French.…”

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Effects of Orthography on Speech Production in Chinese

Zhang

Damian

2011

J Psycholinguist Res

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The potential role of orthographic representations on spoken word production was investigated with speakers of Chinese, a non-alphabetic and orthographically non-transparent language. Using the response generation procedure, we obtained the well-known facilitation from word-initial phonological overlap, but this effect was unaffected by whether or not responses shared the initial character. In a study which manipulated the visual similarity of the word-initial character, a significant inhibitory effect of orthography was found. However, this effect disappeared when prompt stimuli were presented auditorily, suggesting that the orthographic effect might be attributable to the memorization stage of the response generation task, rather than reflecting processes genuine to speaking. By contrast, a reliable orthographic effect was found in an oral reading task, suggesting that orthography plays a role only when it is relevant to the word production task. Furthermore, the present findings show that the orthographic effect is tied to the correspondence between orthography and phonology of a language when orthography is relevant to the task used.

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Effects of Orthography on Speech Production in Chinese

Zhang

Damian

2011

J Psycholinguist Res

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“…More recently, however, given the numerous indications of a profound influence of orthographic knowledge on word recognition, Pattamadilok, Lafontaine, Morais, and Kolinsky (2010) examined the question of whether inter-item orthographic dissimilarity may help to reduce the deleterious effect of phonological similarity. Thus, contrary to Baddeley (1966) who examined the potential deleterious effect of spelling similarity in the case of phonological dissimilarity, Pattamadilok and colleagues investigated the beneficial effect of spelling dissimilarity in cases of phonological similarity.…”

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Does learning to read shape verbal working memory?

Demoulin

Kolinsky

2015

Psychon Bull Rev

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Many experimental studies have investigated the relationship between the acquisition of reading and working memory in a unidirectional way, attempting to determine to what extent individual differences in working memory can predict reading achievement. In contrast, very little attention has been dedicated to the converse possibility that learning to read shapes the development of verbal memory processes. In this paper, we present available evidence that advocates a more prominent role for reading acquisition on verbal working memory and then discuss the potential mechanisms of such literacy effects. First, the early decoding activities might bolster the development of subvocal rehearsal, which, in turn, would enhance serial order performance in immediate memory tasks. In addition, learning to read and write in an alphabetical system allows the emergence of phonemic awareness and finely tuned phonological representations, as well as of orthographic representations. This could improve the quality, strength, and precision of lexical representations, and hence offer better support for the temporary encoding of memory items and/or for their retrieval.

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“…Orthographic information can be considered different from non-linguistic visual information: Following cerebral damage the ability to extract meaning from a picture may still be preserved to some degree, while letter or word recognition is no longer possible (Miozzo & Caramazza, 1998). The influence of orthographic similarity in verbal working memory has recently been demonstrated (Pattamadilok, Lafontaine, Morais, & Kolinsky, 2010). Logie et al's (2000) similar lists contained approximately 60% graphemic conformity, whereas maximally 30% of the graphemes in the dissimilar lists overlapped, and this not even in the same position.…”

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Does visuo-spatial working memory generally contribute to immediate serial letter recall?

Fürstenberg

Rummer

Schweppe

2013

Memory

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This work contributes to the understanding of the visual similarity effect in verbal working memory, a finding that suggests that the visuo-spatial sketch pad-the system in Baddeley's working memory model specialised in retaining nonverbal visual information-might be involved in the retention of visually presented verbal materials. Crucially this effect is implicitly interpreted by the most influential theory of multimedia learning as evidence for an obligatory involvement of the visuo-spatial sketch pad. We claim that it is only involved when the functioning of the working memory component normally used for processing verbal material is impaired. In this article we review the studies that give rise to the idea of obligatory involvement of the visuo-spatial sketch pad and suggest that some findings can be understood with reference to orthographic rather than visual similarity. We then test an alternative explanation of the finding that is most apt to serve as evidence for obligatory involvement of the visuo-spatial sketch pad. We conclude that, in healthy adults and under normal learning conditions, the visual similarity effect can be explained within the framework of verbal working memory proposed by Baddeley (e.g., 1986, 2000) without additional premises regarding the visuo-spatial sketch.

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Auditory Word Serial Recall Benefits from Orthographic Dissimilarity

Cited by 20 publications

References 90 publications

Effects of Orthography on Speech Production in Chinese

Effects of Orthography on Speech Production in Chinese

Does learning to read shape verbal working memory?

Does visuo-spatial working memory generally contribute to immediate serial letter recall?

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