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Blomquist, Christina; McMurray, Bob – Developmental Psychology, 2023
As a spoken word unfolds over time, similar sounding words ("cap" and "cat") compete until one word "wins". Lexical competition becomes more efficient from infancy through adolescence. We examined one potential mechanism underlying this development: lexical inhibition, by which activated candidates suppress…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Language Acquisition, Age Differences, Word Recognition
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Tzeng, Yu-Lin; Hsu, Chun-Hsien; Lin, Wan-Hsuan; Lee, Chia-Ying – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2017
This study used the lexicality effects on N400 to investigate orthographic processing in children with developmental dyslexia. Participants performed a Go/No-Go semantic judgment task; three types of stimuli--real characters (RC), pseudocharacters (PC), and noncharacters (NC)--were embedded in No-Go trials. Two types of lexicality effects (RC vs.…
Descriptors: Chinese, Dyslexia, Diagnostic Tests, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Howland, Karole A.; Liederman, Jacqueline – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: To examine how adults with dyslexia versus adults with typical reading form lexical representations during pseudoword learning. Method: Twenty adults with dyslexia and 20 adults with typical reading learned meanings, spellings, and pronunciations of 16 pictured pseudowords, (half with regular and half with irregular grapheme-phoneme…
Descriptors: Adults, Dyslexia, Comparative Analysis, Decoding (Reading)