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Lexical decision task
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Deciding rapidly whether a string of letters forms a word.
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Naming task
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Saying a printed word out loud as rapidly as possible.
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Orthography
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The spelling of words.
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Semantics
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Word-meaning.
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Homophones
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Words having one pronunciation but two spellings.
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Word superiority effect
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A target letter is more readily detected in a letter string when the string forms a word than when it does not.
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Pseudoword
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A pronouncable non-word. eg.) "tave"
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Orthographic neighbours
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With reference to a given word, those other words that can be formed by changing it's letters.
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Semantic priming effect
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The finding that word identification is facilitated when there is priming by a semantically related word.
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Lexicon
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A store of detailed information about words, including othographic, phonological, semantic, and syntatic knowledge.
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Lexical access
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Entering the lexicon with its stored detailed information about words
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Dual-route cascaded model
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A model which information passes from one level to the next before processing is complete at the first level.
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Surface dyslexia
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A condition in which regular words can be read but there is impaired ability to read irregular words.
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Phonological dyslexia
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A condition in which familiar words can be read but there is impaired ability to read unfamiliar words and nonwords.
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Deep dyslexia
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A condition in which reading unfamiliar words is impaired and there are semantic reading errors. eg.) reading "rocket" as "missile"
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