?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Suppressing+Visual+Feedback+in+written+composition%3A+Effects+on+Processing+Demands+and+Coordination+of+the+Writing&rft.creator=Thierry%2C+Olive&rft.creator=Annie%2C+Piolat&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.description=The+goal+of+this+experiment+was+to+investigate+the+role+of+visual+feedback+during+written+composition.+Effects+of+suppression+of+visual+feedback+were+analyzed+both+on+processing+demands+and+on+on-line+coordination+of+low-level+execution+processes+and+of+high-level+conceptual+and+linguistic+processes.+Writers+composed+a+text+and+copied+it+either+with+or+without+visual+feedback.+Processing+demands+of+the+writing+processes+were+evaluated+with+%0Areaction+times+to+secondary+auditory+probes%2C+which+were+analyzed+according+to+whether+participants+%0Awere+handwriting+(in+a+composing+and+a+copying+task)+or+engaged+in+high-level+processes+(when+pausing+in+a+composing+task).+Suppression+of+visual+feedback+increased+%0Areaction+time+interference+(secondary+reaction+time+minus+baseline+reaction+time)+during++handwriting+in+the+copying+task+and+not+during+pauses+in+the+composing+task.+This+suggests+that+suppression+of+visual+feedback+only+affected+processing+demands+of+execution+processes+and+not+those+of+high-level+conceptual+and+linguistic+processes.+This+is+confirmed+by+analysis+of+the+quality+of+the+texts+produced+by+participants%2C+which+were+little%2C+if+at+all%2C+affected+%0Aby+the+suppression+of+visual+feedback.+Results+also+indicate+that+the+increase+in+processing+%0Ademands+of+execution+related+to+suppression+of+visual+feedback+affected+on-line+coordination+of+the+writing+processes.+Indeed%2C+when+visual+feedback+was+suppressed%2C+reaction+time+interferences+associated+with+handwriting+were+not+reliably+different+in+the+copying+task+or+the+composing+task+but+were+significantly+different+when+visual+feedback+was+not+suppressed%3A+They+were+lower+in+the+copying+task+than+in+the+composition+task.+When+visual+feedback+was+%0Asuppressed%2C+writers+activated+step-by-step+execution+processes+and+high-level+writing+processes%2C+whereas+they+concurrently+activated+these+writing+processes+when+composing+with+visual+feedback.+%0A&rft.date=2002&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3177%2F1%2FOlivePiolatIJP2002.pdf&rft.identifier=++Thierry%2C+Olive+and+Annie%2C+Piolat++(2002)+Suppressing+Visual+Feedback+in+written+composition%3A+Effects+on+Processing+Demands+and+Coordination+of+the+Writing.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3177%2F