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State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China The degree to which phonological codes constrain handwriting is at present controversial. Two experiments used a picture-word interference paradigm in which participants wrote down the names of pictures while attempting to ignore visual distractor words presented at various time intervals (SOAs). Distractors could be orthographically and phonologically related, orthographically related only, or unrelated. We found an exclusive effect of phonology at an early SOA, and orthographic priming at a later SOA. In a second experiment, we showed that the effect of phonology was diminished when writers engaged in concurrent articulatory suppression. The results suggest a role of phonology in the generation of handwritten words that is to some extent dependent on situational circumstances.
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This research was supported by International Incoming Fellowship IIF-2007/R1 from the Royal Society to the first author, and by Grant RES-062-23-0729 from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to the second author.
An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/MC.38.8.1162.
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Zhang, Q., Damian, M.F. Impact of phonology on the generation of handwritten responses: Evidence from picture-word interference tasks. Memory & Cognition 38, 519–528 (2010). https://doi.org/10.3758/MC.38.4.519
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