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Rao, Chaitra; Mathur, Avantika; Singh, Nandini C. – Brain and Language, 2013
Romanized transliteration is widely used in internet communication and global commerce, yet we know little about its behavioural and neural processing. Here, we show that Romanized text imposes a significant neurocognitive load. Readers faced greater difficulty in identifying concrete words written in Romanized transliteration (Romanagari)…
Descriptors: Romanization, Native Language, Cognitive Processes, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Nazir, Tatjana A.; Ben-Boutayab, Nadia; Decoppet, Nathalie; Deutsch, Avital; Frost, Ram – Brain and Language, 2004
The present work aims at demonstrating that visual training associated with the act of reading modifies the way we perceive printed words. As reading does not train all parts of the retina in the same way but favors regions on the side in the direction of scanning, visual word recognition should be better at retinal locations that are frequently…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Serial Ordering, Reading Habits, Eye Movements