The Variable Mind? How Apparently Inconsistent Effects Might Inform Model Building

• Main Author: Simona Amenta (auth)
• Other Authors: Davide Crepaldi (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; context effects; cross-language variability; Experimental variability; Task Effects; bilingualism; individual differences
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Model building is typically based on the identification of a set of established facts in any given field of research, insofar as the model is then evaluated on how well it accounts for these facts. Psychology - and specifically visual word identification and reading - is no exception in this sense (...