Impact of Phonology on the Generation of Handwritten Responses: Evidence from Picture-word Interference Tasks

Overview

Journal Mem Cognit

Specialty Psychology

Date 2010 Jun 3

PMID 20516232

Citations 15

Authors

Qingfang Zhang

Markus F Damian

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Abstract

The degree to which phonological codes constrain handwriting is at present controversial. Two experiments used a picture-word interference paradigm in which participants wrote down the names of pictures while attempting to ignore visual distractor words presented at various time intervals (SOAs). Distractors could be orthographically and phonologically related, orthographically related only, or unrelated. We found an exclusive effect of phonology at an early SOA, and orthographic priming at a later SOA. In a second experiment, we showed that the effect of phonology was diminished when writers engaged in concurrent articulatory suppression. The results suggest a role of phonology in the generation of handwritten words that is to some extent dependent on situational circumstances.

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