The role of visual feedback in detecting and correcting typing errors: A signal detection approach
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2021Author
Pinet, Svetlana
Nozari, Nazbanou
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Svetlana Pinet, Nazbanou Nozari, The role of visual feedback in detecting and correcting typing errors: A signal detection approach, Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 117, 2021, 104193, ISSN 0749-596X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2020.104193
Abstract
This study examined the role of external information in monitoring language production. In a typing-to-dictation
task, participants were deprived of all or part of visual feedback. Data were analyzed using signal detection
theory (SDT) applied to a multi-component monitoring framework. Results showed that removing the visual
information affected the correction of typing errors more than their conscious detection (Exps 1, 2). Reinstating
partial visual information (positional information) increased correction rates but not to the level of full visual
information, independently of the probability of error detection (Exps 2, 3). Analysis of SDT parameters showed
that while manipulating visual information affected the informativeness of the signal for both correction and
conscious detection of errors, participants treated this change differently in the two tasks. We discuss the implications
of the results, and more generally, the utility of SDT, for theories of monitoring and control in language
production.