Computing the meanings of words in reading: cooperative division of labor between visual and phonological processes.

@article{citeulike:265671, abstract = {Are words read visually (by means of a direct mapping from orthography to semantics) or phonologically (by mapping from orthography to phonology to semantics)? The authors addressed this long-standing debate by examining how a large-scale computational model based on connectionist principles would solve the problem and comparing the model's performance to people's. In contrast to previous models, the present model uses an architecture in which meanings are jointly determined by the 2 components, with the division of labor between them affected by the nature of the mappings between codes. The model is consistent with a variety of behavioral phenomena, including the results of studies of homophones and pseudohomophones thought to support other theories, and illustrates how efficient processing can be achieved using multiple simultaneous constraints.}, address = {Department of Information Resources and Technology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5412, USA. mharm@stanford.edu}, author = {Harm, M. W. and Seidenberg, M. S. }, citeulike-article-id = {265671}, doi = {10.1037/0033-295X.111.3.662}, issn = {0033-295X}, journal = {Psychol Rev}, keywords = {connectionism, distributed\_lexemes, distributed\_semantics, models, pdp, reading, statistical\_learning, triangle\_model}, month = {July}, number = {3}, pages = {662--720}, posted-at = {2008-03-01 04:20:34}, priority = {0}, title = {Computing the meanings of words in reading: cooperative division of labor between visual and phonological processes.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0033-295X.111.3.662}, volume = {111}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:265671 L3 - citeulike-article-id:265671 TI - Computing the meanings of words in reading: cooperative division of labor between visual and phonological processes. JF - Psychol Rev VL - 111 IS - 3 SP - 662 EP - 720 AD - Department of Information Resources and Technology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5412, USA. mharm@stanford.edu SN - 0033-295X N2 - Are words read visually (by means of a direct mapping from orthography to semantics) or phonologically (by mapping from orthography to phonology to semantics)? The authors addressed this long-standing debate by examining how a large-scale computational model based on connectionist principles would solve the problem and comparing the model's performance to people's. In contrast to previous models, the present model uses an architecture in which meanings are jointly determined by the 2 components, with the division of labor between them affected by the nature of the mappings between codes. The model is consistent with a variety of behavioral phenomena, including the results of studies of homophones and pseudohomophones thought to support other theories, and illustrates how efficient processing can be achieved using multiple simultaneous constraints. KW - connectionism KW - distributed_lexemes KW - distributed_semantics KW - models KW - pdp KW - reading KW - statistical_learning KW - triangle_model AU - Harm, MW AU - Seidenberg, MS PY - 2004/07// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0033-295X.111.3.662 ER -