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One more trip to Barcetona: on the special status of visual similarity effects in city names.

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Title: One more trip to Barcetona: on the special status of visual similarity effects in city names.
Authors: Perea, Manuel (AUTHOR), Labusch, Melanie (AUTHOR), Fernández-López, María (AUTHOR), Marcet, Ana (AUTHOR), Gutierrez-Sigut, Eva (AUTHOR), Gómez, Pablo (AUTHOR)
Source: Psychological Research. Feb2024, Vol. 88 Issue 1, p271-283. 13p.
Subjects: Mental representation, Brand name products, Status (Law), Lexicon, Spelling errors
Abstract: Previous research has shown that, unlike misspelled common words, misspelled brand names are sensitive to visual letter similarity effects (e.g., amazom is often recognized as a legitimate brand name, but not amazot). This pattern poses problems for those models that assume that word identification is exclusively based on abstract codes. Here, we investigated the role of visual letter similarity using another type of word often presented in a more homogenous format than common words: city names. We found a visual letter similarity effect for misspelled city names (e.g., Barcetona was often recognized as a word, but not Barcesona) for relatively short durations of the stimuli (200 ms; Experiment 2), but not when the stimuli were presented until response (Experiment 1). Notably, misspelled common words did not show a visual letter similarity effect for brief 200- and 150-ms durations (e.g., votume was not as often recognized as a word than vosume; Experiments 3–4). These findings provide further evidence that the consistency in the format of presentations may shape the representation of words in the mental lexicon, which may be more salient in scenarios where processing resources are limited (e.g., brief exposure presentations). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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