TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1989//
TI  - Attentional demands of visual word recognition
JO  - Journal of experimental psychology: human perception and performance
A1  - Herdman, C. M.
A1  - Dobbs, A. R.
SP  - 124
EP  - 132
VL  - 15
IS  - 1
N2  - Becker's (1976, 1979, 1980, 1985; Becker & Killion, 1977; Eisenberg & Becker, 1982) verification model was used as a framework to investigate the attentional demands of word recognition. In two experiments, a lexical decision task and an auditory probe task were performed in single- and dual-task conditions. Responses to probes were divided into detection and movement measures that indexed the demands of recognition and response output, respectively. In Experiment 1, single- to dual-task decrements in probe detection performance were larger during low-frequency as compared with high-frequency trials. This finding indicates that the attentional demands of word recognition vary with word frequency. These findings were replicated in Experiment 2, which was designed to separate a response compatibility and a capacity interpretation of the results. The findings are interpreted within Becker's verification model.<p /> <p>Language: en</p> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0096-1523
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -