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Word discrimination : a study of the role of prior experience in the processing of briefly available visual information

Phillips, William Alfred

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Briefly displayed words are far more accurately recognized if the words displayed are familiar. Although well established, this phenomenon has not yet been adequately explained. word recognition performance combine-s two components the stimulus component, comprising information received from the stimulus and transmitted into the response; and the supplementary component comprising additiona1 information supplied by the subject. Techniques currently available do not enable these two ...[Show more]

dc.contributor.authorPhillips, William Alfred
dc.date.accessioned2013-07-24T06:16:19Z
dc.date.available2013-07-24T06:16:19Z
dc.identifier.otherb12876550
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/10216
dc.description.abstractBriefly displayed words are far more accurately recognized if the words displayed are familiar. Although well established, this phenomenon has not yet been adequately explained. word recognition performance combine-s two components the stimulus component, comprising information received from the stimulus and transmitted into the response; and the supplementary component comprising additiona1 information supplied by the subject. Techniques currently available do not enable these two components to be separated. It has therefore not been possible to determine how the effects of familiarity are distributed across the two components This thesis describes techniques which do provide such a separation Employing these techniques it is shown that the effects of: familiarity include changes in the stimulus component, Investigations of the mechanism of these changes in the stimulus component then show that the input is identified as a single particular word within the reception systems. The improvement in recognition performance results from the ensuing reduction in read-out and s storage load. These findings constitute a confirmation of' Woodworth's whole-word theory.
dc.language.isoen_AU
dc.titleWord discrimination : a study of the role of prior experience in the processing of briefly available visual information
dc.typeThesis (PhD)
local.contributor.supervisorSeagrim, G.N.
dcterms.valid1967
local.description.notesSupervisor: Professor G.N. Seagrim. This thesis has been made available through exception 200AB to the Copyright Act.
local.description.refereedYes
local.type.degreeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
dc.date.issued1967
local.contributor.affiliationAustralian National University
local.identifier.doi10.25911/5d78d731031f0
local.identifier.proquestYes
local.mintdoimint
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