Roderick T Bartee, Kate A Heelan, Bree L Dority
Longitudinal Evaluation of Aerobic Fitness and Academic Achievement Among Schoolchildren
The Journal of school health
visual word recognition studies commonly measure orthographic similarity words using colthearts orthographic neighborhood size metric although reliably predicts behavioral variability many lexical tasks utility inherently limited relatively restrictive definition present article introduce new measure orthographic similarity generated using standard computer science metric string similarity levenshtein distance unlike new measurenamed orthographic levenshtein distance 20 old20incorporates comparisons pairs words lexicon including words different lengths demonstrate old20 provides significant advantages predicting lexical decision pronunciation performance three large data sets moreover old20 interacts strongly word frequency shows stronger effects neighborhood frequency discussion section focuses implications results models visual word recognition