dc.contributor.author | Vergara-Martínez, Marta | |
dc.contributor.author | Gutierrez-Sigut, Eva | |
dc.contributor.author | Perea, Manuel | |
dc.contributor.author | Gil-López, Cristina | |
dc.contributor.author | Carreiras, Manuel | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-07-06T09:52:43Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-07-06T09:52:43Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Marta Vergara-Martínez, Eva Gutierrez-Sigut, Manuel Perea, Cristina Gil-López, Manuel Carreiras, The time course of processing handwritten words: An ERP investigation, Neuropsychologia, Volume 159, 2021, 107924, ISSN 0028-3932, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107924 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.issn | 0028-3932 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/52179 | |
dc.description | Available online 25 June 2021. | es_ES |
dc.description.abstract | Behavioral studies have shown that the legibility of handwritten script hinders visual word recognition.
Furthermore, when compared with printed words, lexical effects (e.g., word-frequency effect) are magnified for
less intelligible (difficult) handwriting (Barnhart and Goldinger, 2010; Perea et al., 2016). This boost has been
interpreted in terms of greater influence of top-down mechanisms during visual word recognition. In the present
experiment, we registered the participants’ ERPs to uncover top-down processing effects on early perceptual
encoding. Participants’ behavioral and EEG responses were recorded to high- and low-frequency words that
varied in script’s legibility (printed, easy handwritten, difficult handwritten) in a lexical decision experiment.
Behavioral results replicated previous findings: word-frequency effects were larger in difficult handwriting than
in easy handwritten or printed conditions. Critically, the ERP data showed an early effect of word-frequency in
the N170 that was restricted to the difficult-to-read handwritten condition. These results are interpreted in terms
of increased attentional deployment when the bottom-up signal is weak (difficult handwritten stimuli). This
attentional boost would enhance top-down effects (e.g., lexical effects) in the early stages of visual word
processing | es_ES |
dc.description.sponsorship | The research reported in this article has been partially funded by: Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Grant PSI2017-86210-P); Basque Government through the BERC 2018–2021 program; Agencia Estatal de Investigación through BCBL Severo Ochoa excellence award SEV-2015-0490; and through project RTI2018-093547-B-I00. | es_ES |
dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
dc.publisher | Neuropsychologia | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/PSI2017‐86210‐P | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/SEV-2015-0490 | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/GV/BERC2018-2021 | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/RTI2018-093547-B-I00 | es_ES |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es_ES |
dc.subject | Visual word recognition | es_ES |
dc.subject | ERPs | es_ES |
dc.subject | Handwritten word processing | es_ES |
dc.title | The time course of processing handwritten words: An ERP investigation | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license | es_ES |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/neuropsychologia | es_ES |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107924 | |