• Letter-similarity effects in braille word recognition 

      Baciero, Ana; Gomez, Pablo; Dunabeitia Landaburu, Jon Andoni; Perea, Manuel (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-11-16)
      Letter-similarity effects are elusive with common words in lexical decision experiments: viotin and viocin (base word: violin) produce similar error rates and rejection latencies. However, they are robust for stimuli often presented with the same appearance (e.g., misspelled logotypes such as anazon [base word: amazon] produce more errors and longer latencies than atazon). Here, we examine whether ...
    • Misspelled logotypes: the hidden threat to brand identity 

      Rocabado, Francisco; Perea, Manuel; Dunabeitia Landaburu, Jon Andoni (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-10-19)
      Brand names are valuable company assets often accompanied by a unique graphical composition (i.e., as logotypes). Recent research has demonstrated that this uniqueness makes brand names and logotypes susceptible to counterfeiting through misspelling by transposition in tasks that require participants to identify correct spellings. However, our understanding of how brand names are incidentally ...
    • Raeding with the fingres: Towards a universal model of letter position coding 

      Baciero, Ana; Gomez, Pablo; Dunabeitia Landaburu, Jon Andoni; Perea, Manuel (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-06-01)
      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 ...
    • Rëâdīńg wõrdš wîth ōrńåmêńtš: is there a cost? 

      Dunabeitia Landaburu, Jon Andoni; Perea, Manuel; Labusch, Melanie (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-04-29)
      Introduction: Recent research has reported that adding non-existent diacritical marks to a word produces a minimal reading cost compared to the intact word. Here we examined whether this minimal reading cost is due to: (1) the resilience of letter detectors to the perceptual noise (i.e., the cost should be small and comparable for words and nonwords) or (2) top-down lexical processes that normalize ...
    • Social context effects on emotional language: The influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the emotional evaluation of words 

      Planchuelo, Clara; Baciero, Ana; Hinojosa, José Antonio; Perea, Manuel; Dunabeitia Landaburu, Jon Andoni (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-07-22)
      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 ...