login

Evidence for phonemic recoding in visual word recognition

Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal BehaviorPublished 1 December 1971
Herbert Rubenstein, Spafford S. Lewis, Mollie A. Rubenstein
Citations633

Abstract

Strong evidence was obtained from three experiments to support the hypothesis that the recognition of a visually presented word entails phonemic (auditory/articulatory) recoding. The latencies obtained in a task of deciding whether a visually presented word was English or nonsense supported two additional hypotheses: (a) phonemic recoding occurs during the quantization stage; and (b) it is the phonemic form of the stimulus and of the representations of the entries in the internal lexicon that are compared to achieve the recognition of a word.

Keywords

PsychologyNeuroscience