TY  - JOUR
AB  - Word writing requires the retrieval of letter components and producing
 movements to transform letters into graphic outputs. Nowadays, word w
riting is also prevalent in smartphones but we hardly know how the cog
nitive processes underlying this writing device operate. This explorat
ory study investigated the timing of orthographic retrieval and moveme
nt execution in smartphone writing by comparing it with handwriting pr
oduction. French young adults wrote words of varying length on a smart
phone and digitizer that recorded fine-grained data on the timing of m
ovement production. The results revealed longer latencies in phonewrit
ing than handwriting, indicating that the writing medium affected orth
ographic processing before starting to write. During letter execution,
 motor production was slower in handwriting than phonewriting. Further
more, the latency data revealed that the participants took more time t
o start writing short words than long ones. During letter production, 
long words yielded longer durations than short ones. Short and long wo
rds seem to require two different strategies. In short words, most ort
hographic processing is concluded before starting to write. Long words
 seem to be segmented in sub-lexical letter chunks, with the first chu
nks 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 f
unctioning patterns in phonewriting and handwriting, suggesting that d
espite differences in execution dynamics, the two writing modalities s
hare common underlying processes. The results comfort the cascaded per
spective in which central and peripheral processes are active simultan
eously during movement production.
AU  - Anastaseni, Anna
AU  - Roy, Quentin
AU  - Perret, Cyril
AU  - Romano, Antonio
AU  - Kandel, Sonia
DA  - 2025/9/10/
PY  - 2025
DO  - 10.1007/s11145-025-10710-3
ID  - Anastaseni2025_writi
T2  - Reading and Writing
TI  - Writing words on paper and phone
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-025-10710-3
ER  -