Abstract

MAIA, Marcus; LEMLE, Miriam  and  FRANCA, Aniela Improta. Stroop effect and eye-tracking in word processing. Ciênc. cogn. [online]. 2007, vol.12, pp. 02-17. ISSN 1806-5821.

How is the lexicon organized in the brain? Are words stored as units or is there a derivational process dynamically combining its pieces at each use? The present study, composed by two experimental paradigms, investigates if morphological decomposition is a property inherent to the lexical processing during a reading task in Brazilian Portuguese. The first experiment deals with Stroop Effect, in which attentional processes demonstrate the automatic nature of the initial phases of processing during reading. Using an eye-tracking protocol, the second experiment investigates the process of reading the same words, aiming at identifying, preliminarily, the fixation points and the saccades during first eye scan, as well as the regressive movements. The results obtained in the two experiments gather evidences that, during reading, words are delivered morpheme by morpheme, despite the fact that there are concurrent global heuristics that act simultaneously in reading. © Ciências & Cognição 2007; Vol. 12: 02-17.

Keywords : eye-tracking; morphology internal to words; stroop effect..

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