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    "pk": 50157,
    "title": "Universals in Visual Word Recognition: Investigating the Optimal Viewing Position for Visual Words in Hindi",
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    "abstract": "The Optimal Viewing Position (Nazir, Heller &\nSussman, 1992; Brysbaert & Nazir, 2005) for reading\nvisual words is well studied and documented in most\nof alphabetic languages (Grainger, 2022). The\ncurrent study investigates the optimal viewing\nposition in Hindi, written using the Devanagari\nscript in attempt to understand reading universals\nacross scripts as suggested by Frost (20120. We\ncarried out two experiments using the lexical\ndecision task, one each on words with maatraa (3, 4\nand 5 varna) and without maatraa (2, 3, and 4 varna).\nMaatras are diacritics used to manifest vowel\npronunciations with aksharas in Hindi and can be be\nmarked all around the base akshara, adding to the\ngraphemic complexity of a Hindi word (for a detail\nreview see, Share et al., 2015; Rimzhim et al., 2021;\nVerma et al., 2021). The results demonstrate robust\noptimal viewing position effects in terms of reaction\ntimes with a U-shaped curve in relation to initial\nfixation position and the optimal viewing position\nhas been found to be slightly left to the centre of the\nword. These seem to be similar to the OVP findings\nreported for European languages (Brysbaert & Nazir,\n2005) and may add information about reading\nuniversals across scripts and writing systems.\nKeywords: Optimal Viewing Position, Hindi,\nLexical Decision Task",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Psychology; Reading; Computer-based experiment"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Abstracts with Poster Presentation (accepted as Abstracts)",
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            "first_name": "Prajna",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Sinha",
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            "institution": "University Of Hyderabad",
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            "first_name": "Tvadeeya",
            "middle_name": "Dharmesh",
            "last_name": "Shah",
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            "institution": "National Forensic Sciences University",
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            "first_name": "Poonam",
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            "last_name": "Yadav",
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            "institution": "National Forensic Sciences University",
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        {
            "first_name": "Anurag",
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            "last_name": "Khare",
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            "institution": "Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur",
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        {
            "first_name": "Ark",
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            "last_name": "Verma",
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            "institution": "Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2025-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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