@article{Anastaseni2025_writing_words,
	abstract = {Word writing requires the retrieval of letter components and producing movements to transform letters into graphic outputs. Nowadays, word writing is also prevalent in smartphones but we hardly know how the cognitive processes underlying this writing device operate. This exploratory study investigated the timing of orthographic retrieval and movement execution in smartphone writing by comparing it with handwriting production. French young adults wrote words of varying length on a smartphone and digitizer that recorded fine-grained data on the timing of movement production. The results revealed longer latencies in phonewriting than handwriting, indicating that the writing medium affected orthographic processing before starting to write. During letter execution, motor production was slower in handwriting than phonewriting. Furthermore, the latency data revealed that the participants took more time to start writing short words than long ones. During letter production, long words yielded longer durations than short ones. Short and long words seem to require two different strategies. In short words, most orthographic processing is concluded before starting to write. Long words seem to be segmented in sub-lexical letter chunks, with the first chunks being processed orthographically before starting to write and the rest of the chunks processed on-line, simultaneously to the execution of the first letters of the word. Overall, the data revealed similar functioning patterns in phonewriting and handwriting, suggesting that despite differences in execution dynamics, the two writing modalities share common underlying processes. The results comfort the cascaded perspective in which central and peripheral processes are active simultaneously during movement production.},
	author = {Anastaseni, Anna and Roy, Quentin and Perret, Cyril and Romano, Antonio and Kandel, Sonia},
	journaltitle = {Reading and Writing},
	doi = {10.1007/s11145-025-10710-3},
	date = {2025-09-10},
	title = {Writing words on paper and phone},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-025-10710-3},
}