{"pk":50068,"title":"Existing Models May Not be Able to Explain Letter-Position Encoding in Hindi: Evidence from a Priming Study","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Letter-position encoding is one of the constituent processes in\nvisual word recognition. While the existing models attempt to\nexplain letter-position encoding in English & other European\nlanguages written using the Roman Script, letter-position\nencoding in Hindi written using the Devanagari Script has not\nbeen studied in detail. Given that Hindi is spoken/read by over\n520 million people in India and the unique properties of the\nDevnagari Script (Vaid & Gupta, 2002; Kandhadai & Sproat,\n2010; Share et al., 2015), the current study sought to investigate\nletter-position encoding in Hindi. 66 participants performed a\nlexical decision task that employed six-prime conditions to\ncompare hypotheses from a) the position-specific coding\nscheme, b) local context sensitive coding scheme and the c)\nposition overlap coding scheme. Interestingly, the results\nshowed that none of the aforementioned coding schemes could\nsatisfactorily explain the obtained data. These findings may be\nused to question the generalizability of the extant letter-\nposition encoding schemes to the relatively understudied\nlanguages such as Hindi, which use scripts different from the\nRoman script.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Psychology; Reading; Computer-based experiment"}],"section":"Abstracts with Poster Presentation (accepted as Abstracts)","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/91p2n1dc","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Suraj","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kumar","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur","department":""},{"first_name":"Anurag","middle_name":"","last_name":"Khare","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur","department":""},{"first_name":"Ark","middle_name":"","last_name":"Verma","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50068/galley/38030/download/"}]}