Mauricio Perea
Biographic Data
| ID | 213044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mauricio Perea |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mauricio |
| FAMILY NAME | Perea |
| SIGNATURE | PEREA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat de València |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3291-1365 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Visual similarity and lexical access in an Arabic-derived script: Evidence from Persian
Models of visual word recognition in Latin script assume rapid abstraction of letter identities from perceptual features, reflected in the absence of visual similarity effects for pseudowords (e.g., viotin and viocin yield similar response times in lexical decision). Whether this principle extends to Arabic-derived scripts remains unclear because visual similarity in Arabic can be confounded with preservation of consonantal root structure in a Se…
How time shapes letter position flexibility: Testing positional uncertainty and open bigram accounts
Hearing once, reading twice: How dual subtitles shape visual attention in bilingual viewing
Dual subtitles, combining captions (audio transcription) with subtitles translated into another language, are increasingly used in language learning. However, how they shape visual attention remains unclear. In the present experiments, we tracked the eye movements of Spanish–English bilinguals, as they viewed instructional videos with either no subtitles (Experiment 1) or dual subtitles (Experiment 2), manipulating subtitle position and audio lan…
Transposed-letter priming effects in Arabic-English bilinguals: Shifting toward a default orthographic processing mode
How does bilingualism affect orthographic processing across languages with different structures? This study investigates masked transposed-letter (TL) priming in Arabic-English bilinguals, comparing Arabic (a Semitic language with rigid orthography and weak TL effects) with English (an Indo-European language with flexible letter coding and strong TL effects). Using lexical decision tasks, we tested whether exposure to English enhances letter-codi…
Are the early stages of orthographic processing universal? Insights from masked priming with Semitic words
Two views contend to account for the processes at play during the early stages of visual word recognition. The first holds that these stages are not modulated by the idiosyncratic properties of different languages. The second maintains that the structural properties of the language determine the weighting of the different domains of linguistic knowledge (e.g., orthographic and morphological domains may be differentially weighted across languages)…
Top-down feedback normalizes distortion in early visual word recognition: Insights from masked priming
The identification of visually presented words tolerates distortions in the input format, as Hannagan et al. Plos One, 7, e32121, (2012) demonstrated in a masked priming lexical decision task, showing sizable identity-priming effects with CAPTCHA-like primes. This tolerance to distortion has two potential explanations: bottom-up normalization in the encoding stage (Dehaene et al., Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 335–341, 2005) or top-down lexica…
How does vertical reading affect saccade programming and lexical processing in the Roman script
Although computational models of eye movement control in reading have focused on horizontal text layouts, vertically oriented text is also encountered in daily life in the Roman script. To examine the interplay between saccade programming and lexical processing under vertical reading in the Roman script, we manipulated (1) the layout of words in a sentence (horizontal vs. vertical) and (2) word frequency (high vs. low). In the vertical layout, th…
The Case of brand names during sentence reading
Is letter position coding a unique skill for developing and adult readers in early word processing? Evidence from masked priming
Voice processing ability predicts second-language phoneme learning in early bilingual adults
Individuals differ greatly in their ability to learn the sounds of second languages, even when learning starts early in life. Recent research has suggested that the ability to identify the idiosyncratic acoustic variations introduced into the speech stream by the speaker might be relevant for second-language (L2) phoneme learning. However, only a positive correlation between voice recognition and phoneme learning has been shown. In the present st…
Catching a CAPTCHA: The Impact of Variable Input on the Processing of Emerging Orthographic Representations
Variability inherent to handwriting has been suggested to help establish more robust letter representations than other methods (e.g., typing). The present study tests whether encoding letter strings from a novel alphabet becomes more resistant to distortion when trained with variable input. Over 5 days, participants learned an 11-character artificial alphabet in a variable handwritten format involving reading, listening and handwriting practice. …
Spaces or colors? The role of marking word boundaries on reading aloud in Javanese script
Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages
Visual similarity effects in the identification of Arabic letters: Evidence with masked priming
Research using masked priming and parafoveal preview techniques has shown that visual letter similarity has an impact on word processing during the initial stages in Latin-derived scripts. However, these effects appear to be absent in Arabic. One reason for this discrepancy could be attributed to the distinctive features of the Arabic script, which includes numerous letters sharing a basic form while varying in the location or number of diacritic…
Lexical and Sublexical Skills in Children's Literacy
Letter knowledge and word identification are key skills for reading and spelling. Letter knowledge facilitates the application of sublexical letter-sound mappings to decode words. With reading experience, word identification becomes a key lexical skill to support decoding. In transparent orthographies, however, letter knowledge might be an enduring predictor of decoding and spelling, even in children with some reading experience. This study inves…
Individual differences in word skipping during reading in English as L2
The Multilingual Eye-movement Corpus (MECO; Siegelman et al., 2022) contains data from unbalanced bilinguals reading in their first language (L1) for a variety of languages and in English as their second language (L2). We analyzed word skipping in L2 on the basis of five predictors consisting of the frequency and length of the word in L2 and three measures of individual differences. Besides the L2 proficiency of the participant, two novel measure…
One more trip to Barcetona: On the special status of visual similarity effects in city names
Previous research has shown that, unlike misspelled common words, misspelled brand names are sensitive to visual letter similarity effects (e.g., is often recognized as a legitimate brand name, but not ). 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 …
Just a mark: Diacritic function does not play a role in the early stages of visual word recognition
A Letter is a Letter and its Co-Occurrences: Cracking the Emergence of Position-Invariance Processing
Visual word recognition requires encoding letter identities and positions (orthographic processing). The present study focuses on the emergence of the mechanism responsible for encoding letter order in a word: position invariance. Reading experience leads to developing a flexible mechanism that encodes the information of the position of letters, explaining why and are easily confused. Critically, orthographic regularities (e.g., frequent letter c…
Reading about a Relo-Vution
The role of letter knowledge acquisition ability on children's decoding and word identification: Evidence from an artificial orthography
Background Letter knowledge is crucial in the first stages of reading development. It supports learning letter‐sound mappings and the identification of the letters that make up words. Previous studies have investigated the longitudinal impact of early letter knowledge on children's further word reading abilities. This study employed an artificial orthography learning paradigm to explore whether the rate of letter learning modulates children's rea…
Do Diacritics Entail an Early Processing Cost in the Absence of Abstract Representations? Evidence from Masked Priming in English
Using the masked priming technique, word recognition experiments in various languages have shown slower response times for a target word like NEVEU (nephew, in French) when preceded by a diacritical prime like néveu than by the identity prime neveu. The most common account of this effect is linguistic: diacritical and non-diacritical vowels (e.g., é and e) activate different letter representations (e.g., compare neveu /nə.vø/ vs. néveu /ne.vø/). …
Raeding with the fingres: Towards a universal model of letter position coding
Letter position coding in word recognition has been widely investigated in the visual modality (e.g., labotarory is confusable with laboratory), but not as much in the tactile modality using braille, leading to an incomplete understanding of whether this process is modality-dependent. Unlike sighted readers, braille readers do not show a transposed-letter similarity effect with nonadjacent transpositions (e.g., labotarory = labodanory; Perea et a…
The impact of capitalized German words on lexical access
The impact of visual cues during visual word recognition in deaf readers: An ERP study
The effects of length and transposed-letter similarity in lexical decision: Evidence with beginning, intermediate, and adult readers
Do length and transposed-letter effects reflect developmental changes on reading acquisition in a transparent orthography? Can computational models of visual word recognition accommodate these changes? To answer these questions, we carried out a masked priming lexical decision experiment with Spanish beginning, intermediate, and adult readers (N=36, 44, and 39; average age: 7, 11, and 22 years, respectively). Target words were either short or lon…
Mirror-image discrimination in monoliterate English and Thai readers: Reading With and Without Mirror Letters
I saw this somewhere else: The Spanish Ambiguous Words (SAW) database
The present paper describes the Spanish Ambiguous Words (SAW) database, which comprises 210 words (133 polysemous and 77 homographs). Three-hundred and fifteen Spanish university students took part in the study on which SAW is based. First, subjective word meanings and senses were collected by means of a meaning retrieval task. Two judges then assigned participants’ responses to different categories of meaning according to lexicographical and sta…
Letter-case information and the identification of brand names
A central tenet of most current models of visual-word recognition is that lexical units are activated on the basis of case-invariant abstract letter representations. Here, we examined this assumption by using a unique type of words: brand names. The rationale of the experiments is that brand names are archetypically printed either in lowercase (e.g., adidas) or uppercase (e.g., IKEA). This allows us to present the brand names in their standard or…
Does adding an accent mark hinder lexical access? Evidence from Spanish
Recent research has shown that omitting the accent mark in a Spanish word, which is a language in which these diacritics only indicate lexical stress, does not cause a delay in lexical access (e.g., cárcel [prison] ≈ carcel; cárcel-CÁRCEL ≈ carcel-CÁRCEL). This pattern has been interpreted as accented and nonaccented vowels sharing the abstract letter representations in Spanish. However, adding an accent mark to a nonaccented Spanish word appears…
Does orthographic processing emerge rapidly after learning a new script
Orthographic processing is characterized by location-invariant and location-specific processing (Grainger, 2018): (1) strings of letters are more vulnerable to transposition effects than the strings of symbols in same-different tasks (location-invariant processing); and (2) strings of letters, but not strings of symbols, show an initial position advantage in target-in-string identification tasks (location-specific processing). To examine the emer…
The effects of length and transposed-letter similarity in lexical decision: Evidence with beginning, intermediate, and adult readers
Do length and transposed-letter effects reflect developmental changes on reading acquisition in a transparent orthography? Can computational models of visual word recognition accommodate these changes? To answer these questions, we carried out a masked priming lexical decision experiment with Spanish beginning, intermediate, and adult readers (N=36, 44, and 39; average age: 7, 11, and 22 years, respectively). Target words were either short or lon…
Β‐globin gene cluster haplotypes in sickle cell patients from Panamá
Objective: To analyze the frequency of the haplotypes of β‐globin gene cluster in randomly selected patients withsickle cell disease (SCD), attended in the Children's Hospital of Panama. Methods: Five polymorphic sites in the β‐globin gene cluster were analyzed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) followed by restriction digestion and agarose gel electrophoresis in a total of 100 patients, including 95 homozygous for HbS (sickle cell anemia) and 5 …
EsPal: One-stop shopping for Spanish word properties
Letter-case information and the identification of brand names
A central tenet of most current models of visual-word recognition is that lexical units are activated on the basis of case-invariant abstract letter representations. Here, we examined this assumption by using a unique type of words: brand names. The rationale of the experiments is that brand names are archetypically printed either in lowercase (e.g., adidas) or uppercase (e.g., IKEA). This allows us to present the brand names in their standard or…
Why braille reading is important and how to study it / Por qué es importante la lectura en braille y cómo estudiarla
Despite its relevance in theoretical and practical terms, braille reading has received little attention from researchers. Awareness of the pros and cons of the different procedures used to examine braille reading is needed to facilitate the realization of systematic studies and to improve teaching methods in braille reading. This study provides a critical examination of braille reading methods and highlights key points for future studies on tacti…
On the nature of consonant/vowel differences in letter position coding: Evidence from developing and adult readers
In skilled adult readers, transposed-letter effects (jugde-JUDGE) are greater for consonant than for vowel transpositions. These differences are often attributed to phonological rather than orthographic processing. To examine this issue, we employed a scenario in which phonological involvement varies as a function of reading experience: A masked priming lexical decision task with 50-ms primes in adult and developing readers. Indeed, masked phonol…
I saw this somewhere else: The Spanish Ambiguous Words (SAW) database
The present paper describes the Spanish Ambiguous Words (SAW) database, which comprises 210 words (133 polysemous and 77 homographs). Three-hundred and fifteen Spanish university students took part in the study on which SAW is based. First, subjective word meanings and senses were collected by means of a meaning retrieval task. Two judges then assigned participants’ responses to different categories of meaning according to lexicographical and sta…
Does the cowl make the monk? Detecting counterfeits in brand names versus logos
Does a mark make a difference? Visual similarity effects with accented vowels
Do children with overweight respond faster to food-related words
Does orthographic processing emerge rapidly after learning a new script
Orthographic processing is characterized by location-invariant and location-specific processing (Grainger, 2018): (1) strings of letters are more vulnerable to transposition effects than the strings of symbols in same-different tasks (location-invariant processing); and (2) strings of letters, but not strings of symbols, show an initial position advantage in target-in-string identification tasks (location-specific processing). To examine the emer…
Raeding with the fingres: Towards a universal model of letter position coding
Letter position coding in word recognition has been widely investigated in the visual modality (e.g., labotarory is confusable with laboratory), but not as much in the tactile modality using braille, leading to an incomplete understanding of whether this process is modality-dependent. Unlike sighted readers, braille readers do not show a transposed-letter similarity effect with nonadjacent transpositions (e.g., labotarory = labodanory; Perea et a…
The impact of capitalized German words on lexical access
The impact of visual cues during visual word recognition in deaf readers: An ERP study
Social context effects on emotional language: The influence of the Covid-19 pandemic on the emotional evaluation of words
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered our routines, our conversations, the specific social contexts in which we hear or use certain words, and potentially, the representation of the words related to the disease and its consequences. Here we investigated whether the effects of the pandemic have changed the representation of the affective features of COVID-19-related words. To this aim, we collected new ratings of valence (from unpleasant to pleasant) …
Are brand names special words? Letter visual‐similarity affects the identification of brand names, but not common words
Brand names are often considered a special type of words of special relevance to examine the role of visual codes during reading: unlike common words, brand names are typically presented with the same letter‐case configuration (e.g., IKEA, adidas). Recently, Pathak et al. ( European Journal of Marketing , 2019, 53 , 2109) found an effect of visual similarity for misspelled brand names when the participants had to decide whether the brand name was…
Does adding an accent mark hinder lexical access? Evidence from Spanish
Recent research has shown that omitting the accent mark in a Spanish word, which is a language in which these diacritics only indicate lexical stress, does not cause a delay in lexical access (e.g., cárcel [prison] ≈ carcel; cárcel-CÁRCEL ≈ carcel-CÁRCEL). This pattern has been interpreted as accented and nonaccented vowels sharing the abstract letter representations in Spanish. However, adding an accent mark to a nonaccented Spanish word appears…
Mirror-image discrimination in monoliterate English and Thai readers: Reading With and Without Mirror Letters
Just a mark: Diacritic function does not play a role in the early stages of visual word recognition
A Letter is a Letter and its Co-Occurrences: Cracking the Emergence of Position-Invariance Processing
Visual word recognition requires encoding letter identities and positions (orthographic processing). The present study focuses on the emergence of the mechanism responsible for encoding letter order in a word: position invariance. Reading experience leads to developing a flexible mechanism that encodes the information of the position of letters, explaining why and are easily confused. Critically, orthographic regularities (e.g., frequent letter c…
Reading about a Relo-Vution
The role of letter knowledge acquisition ability on children's decoding and word identification: Evidence from an artificial orthography
Background Letter knowledge is crucial in the first stages of reading development. It supports learning letter‐sound mappings and the identification of the letters that make up words. Previous studies have investigated the longitudinal impact of early letter knowledge on children's further word reading abilities. This study employed an artificial orthography learning paradigm to explore whether the rate of letter learning modulates children's rea…
Do Diacritics Entail an Early Processing Cost in the Absence of Abstract Representations? Evidence from Masked Priming in English
Using the masked priming technique, word recognition experiments in various languages have shown slower response times for a target word like NEVEU (nephew, in French) when preceded by a diacritical prime like néveu than by the identity prime neveu. The most common account of this effect is linguistic: diacritical and non-diacritical vowels (e.g., é and e) activate different letter representations (e.g., compare neveu /nə.vø/ vs. néveu /ne.vø/). …
Visual similarity effects in the identification of Arabic letters: Evidence with masked priming
Research using masked priming and parafoveal preview techniques has shown that visual letter similarity has an impact on word processing during the initial stages in Latin-derived scripts. However, these effects appear to be absent in Arabic. One reason for this discrepancy could be attributed to the distinctive features of the Arabic script, which includes numerous letters sharing a basic form while varying in the location or number of diacritic…
Lexical and Sublexical Skills in Children's Literacy
Letter knowledge and word identification are key skills for reading and spelling. Letter knowledge facilitates the application of sublexical letter-sound mappings to decode words. With reading experience, word identification becomes a key lexical skill to support decoding. In transparent orthographies, however, letter knowledge might be an enduring predictor of decoding and spelling, even in children with some reading experience. This study inves…
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