dc.contributor.author | Awadh, Faris H.R. | |
dc.contributor.author | Phénix, Thierry | |
dc.contributor.author | Antzaka, Alexia | |
dc.contributor.author | Lallier, Marie | |
dc.contributor.author | Carreiras, Manuel | |
dc.contributor.author | Valdois, Sylviane | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-11-23T11:25:40Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-11-23T11:25:40Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Awadh FHR, Phénix T, Antzaka A, Lallier M, Carreiras M and Valdois S (2016) Cross-Language Modulation of Visual Attention Span: An Arabic-French-Spanish Comparison in Skilled Adult Readers. Front. Psychol. 7:307. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00307 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1664-1078 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/19582 | |
dc.description | The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00307 | es |
dc.description | Epub ahead of print 7/3/2016 | |
dc.description.abstract | In delineating the amount of orthographic information that can be processed in parallel during a single fixation, the visual attention (VA) span acts as a key component of the reading system. Previous studies focused on the contribution of VA span to normal and pathological reading in monolingual and bilingual children from different European languages, without direct cross-language comparison. In the current paper, we explored modulations of VA span abilities in three languages-French, Spanish, and Arabic- that differ in transparency, reading direction and writing systems. The participants were skilled adult readers who were native speakers of French, Spanish or Arabic. They were administered tasks of global and partial letter report, single letter identification and text reading. Their VA span abilities were assessed using tasks that require the processing of briefly presented five consonant strings (e.g., RSHFT). All five consonants had to be reported in global report but a single cued letter in partial report. Results showed that VA span was reduced in Arabic readers as compared to French or Spanish readers who otherwise show a similar high performance in the two report tasks. The analysis of VA span response patterns in global report showed a left-right asymmetry in all three languages. A leftward letter advantage was found in French and Spanish but a rightward advantage in Arabic. The response patterns were symmetric in partial report, regardless of the language. Last, a significant relationship was found between VA span abilities and reading speed but only for French. The overall findings suggest that the size of VA span, the shape of VA span response patterns and the VA Span-reading relationship are modulated by language-specific features. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | FA was supported by a fellowship from the Iraqi Ministry and Campus-France, TP by a Ph.D grant from the “Fondation de France” and AA by a Basque Government PhD grant. The study was supported by the ANR (ANR-12-BSH2-0013-01) grants to SV, the European Research Council (ERC advanced grant, Proposal No.295362, BILITERACY awarded to MC) and the Spanish Government (Plan Nacional-PSI2012-32128 awarded to ML, and Plan Nacional-PSI2012-31448 awarded to MC). | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | es |
dc.publisher | Frontiers in Psychology | |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/ERC-AdG/295362 | |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/PSI2012-32128 | |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/PSI2012-31448 | |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es |
dc.subject | cross-language | es |
dc.subject | comparison | es |
dc.subject | visual attention span | es |
dc.subject | reading speed | es |
dc.subject | reading direction | es |
dc.subject | language transparency | es |
dc.subject | letter string simultaneous processing | es |
dc.title | Cross-Language Modulation of Visual Attention Span: An Arabic-French-Spanish Comparison in Skilled Adult Readers | es |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es |
dc.rights.holder | Copyright © 2016 Awadh, Phénix, Antzaka, Lallier, Carreiras and Valdois. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License(CCBY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited,in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use,distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. | |
dc.relation.publisherversion | http://journal.frontiersin.org/journal/psychology | es |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00307 | |
dc.subject.categoria | PSYCHOLOGY | |