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Twomey, Tae; Duncan, Keith J. Kawabata; Hogan, John S.; Morita, Kenji; Umeda, Kazumasa; Sakai, Katsuyuki; Devlin, Joseph T. – Brain and Language, 2013
In Japanese, the same word can be written in either morphographic Kanji or syllabographic Hiragana and this provides a unique opportunity to disentangle a word's lexical frequency from the frequency of its visual form--an important distinction for understanding the neural information processing in regions engaged by reading. Behaviorally,…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Japanese, Written Language, Word Frequency
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Krishnan, Ananthanarayan; Gandour, Jackson T.; Smalt, Christopher J.; Bidelman, Gavin M. – Brain and Language, 2010
Experience-dependent enhancement of neural encoding of pitch in the auditory brainstem has been observed for only specific portions of native pitch contours exhibiting high rates of pitch acceleration, irrespective of speech or nonspeech contexts. This experiment allows us to determine whether this language-dependent advantage transfers to…
Descriptors: Cues, Mandarin Chinese, Coding, Cognitive Processes
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Whitney, Carol – Brain and Language, 2008
There has been increasing interest in the question of how the brain encodes the order of letters in a written word. This problem is of practical and theoretical interest, so it is important to distinguish between competing computational models. This article compares the SERIOL and SOLAR theories on their biological plausibility and ability to…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Brain, Coding, Comparative Analysis
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Perea, Manuel; Acha, Joana; Fraga, Isabel – Brain and Language, 2008
Two divided visual field lexical decision experiments were conducted to examine the role of the cerebral hemispheres in orthographic neighborhood effects. In Experiment 1, we employed two types of words: words with many substitution neighbors (high-"N") and words with few substitution neighbors (low-"N"). Results showed a facilitative effect of…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Word Recognition, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Word Frequency
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Whitney, C. – Brain and Language, 2004
Consistent with converging experimental evidence, we assume that foveal information is initially split across the two cerebral hemispheres. We have previously presented the SERIOL model of letter-position coding, which specifies how the resulting two halves of a letter string are integrated into an abstract representation of letter order. This…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Word Recognition, Language Processing, Coding
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Miellet, Sebastien; Sparrow, Laurent – Brain and Language, 2004
This experiment employed the boundary paradigm during sentence reading to explore the nature of early phonological coding in reading. Fixation durations were shorter when the parafoveal preview was the correct word than when it was a spelling control pseudoword. In contrast, there was no significant difference between correct word and…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Reading Processes, Coding, Phonology
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Tsai, Jie-Li; Lee, Chia-Ying; Tzeng, Ovid J. L.; Hung, Daisy L.; Yen, Nai-Shing – Brain and Language, 2004
The role of phonological coding for character identification was examined with the benefit of processing parafoveal characters in eye fixations while reading Chinese sentences. In Experiment 1, the orthogonal manipulation of phonological and orthographic similarity can separate two types of phonological benefits for homophonic previews, according…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Chinese, Sentences, Phonology
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Dohmes, Petra; Zwitserlood, Pienie; Bolte, Jens – Brain and Language, 2004
We examined the contribution of semantic similarity to morphological priming effects, using the immediate (Exp. 1 and 3) and the delayed variant (Exp. 2) of picture-word interference. Distractor words were either compounds morphologically related to the picture name, but differing with respect to their semantic transparency (hummingbird, jailbird…
Descriptors: Semantics, Morphology (Languages), Experiments, Word Recognition
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Jansma, Bernadette M.; Schiller, Niels O. – Brain and Language, 2004
This study investigated the encoding of syllable boundary information during speech production in Dutch. Based on Levelt's model of phonological encoding, we hypothesized segments and syllable boundaries to be encoded in an incremental way. In a self-monitoring experiment, decisions about the syllable affiliation (first or second syllable) of a…
Descriptors: Syllables, Indo European Languages, Articulation (Speech), Pronunciation