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Joanna Daria Dołżycka, Jan Nikadon, Magdalena Formanowicz
Pseudowords allow researchers to investigate multiple grammatical or syntactic aspects of language processing. In order to serve that purpose, pseudoword stimuli need to preserve certain properties of real language. We provide a Python-based pipeline for the generation of pseudoword stimuli that sound/read naturally in…
Celia Martínez-Tomás, Marc Guasch, Pilar Ferré, Miguel Lázaro + 1 more
Most research using pseudowords has focused on the contribution of sublexical properties to the study of word processing. However, recent evidence suggests that pseudowords can also provide insights into the semantic and emotional aspects of language processing. Research in this field would greatly benefit from…
Jacob Pohaku Momsen, Alyson D. Abel
During language processing, people make rapid use of contextual information to promote comprehension of upcoming words. When new words are learned implicitly, information contained in the surrounding context can provide constraints on their possible meaning. In the current study, EEG was recorded as participants…
Vera Varga, Dénes Tóth, Kathleen Kay Amora, Dávid Czikora + 1 more
'Valéria Csépe'] Automatic visual word recognition requires not only well-established phonological and orthographic representations but also efficient audio-visual integration of these representations. One possibility is that in developmental dyslexia, inefficient orthographic processing might underlie poor reading.…
Tao Xia, Chuan-Peng Hu, Basak Türker, Esteban Munoz Musat + 4 more
Decision-making is a core cognitive function that enables adaptive behavior across diverse contexts. While extensively studied in wakefulness, its persistence and reconfiguration across sleep states remain poorly understood. Here, we use computational modeling to examine lexical decision-making across wakefulness, N1…
S. Turker, P. Kuhnke, F. R. Schmid, V. K. M. Cheung + 4 more
The reading network in the human brain comprises several regions, including the left inferior frontal cortex (IFC), ventral occipito-temporal cortex (vOTC) and dorsal temporo-parietal cortex (TPC). The left TPC is crucial for phonological decoding, i.e., for learning and retaining sound-letter mappings. Here, we tested…
Pol van Rijn, Yue Sun, Harin Lee, Raja Marjieh + 4 more
'Francesca Lanzarini' 'Elisabeth André' 'Nori Jacoby'] Conducting experiments with diverse participants in their native languages can uncover insights into culture, cognition, and language that may not be revealed otherwise. However, conducting these experiments online makes it difficult to validate self-reported…
Yun-Fei Liu, Brenda Rapp, Marina Bedny
Blind readers use a tactile reading systems consisting of raised dot arrays: braille/⠃⠗⠇. How does the human brain implement reading by touch? The current study looked for signatures of reading-specific orthographic processes in braille, separate from low-level somatosensory responses and semantic retrieval. Of…
Robert W. Wiley, Sartaj Singh, Yusuf Baig, Kristin Key + 1 more
'Jeremy J. Purcell'] This work introduces the English Sublexical Toolkit, a suite of tools that utilizes an experience-dependent learning framework of sublexical knowledge to extract regularities from the English lexicon. The Toolkit quantifies the empirical regularity of sublexical units in both the reading and…
Marie Lubineau, Cassandra Potier Watkins, Hervé Glasel, Stanislas Dehaene
Which processes induce variations in reading speed in young readers with the same amount of education, but different levels of reading fluency? Here, we tested a prediction of the dual-route model: as fluency increases, these variations may reflect a decreasing reliance on decoding and an increasing reliance on the…
Muge Ozker, Atsuko Takashima, Laura Giglio, Florian Hintz + 2 more
Language processing is supported by distributed neural systems. Yet most research examines these systems at the population-average level, obscuring how individual cognitive differences shape language-related brain activity. In this study, we combined comprehensive cognitive assessments and task-based fMRI in a large…
G. Vinodh Kumar, Simon Lacey, Josh Dorsi, Lynne C. Nygaard + 1 more
Sound symbolism, referring to the resemblance between the sound structure of words and their meaning, is commonly studied using auditory pseudowords. Companion studies across seven meaning domains demonstrated systematic relationships, varying by domain, between the perceptual ratings, phonetic features, and acoustic…
Josh Dorsi, Simon Lacey, Lynne Nygaard, K. Sathian
Iconicity in spoken language refers to the mapping of speech sounds to meaning. For example, the pseudoword “bouba” is judged to sound rounded, whereas the pseudoword “kiki” is judged to sound pointed (34). Recent work has found systematic relationships between speech acoustics and iconicity ratings in various meaning…
Mark Chu, Bhargav Srinivasa Desikan, Ethan O. Nadler, Donald Ruggiero Lo Sardo + 2 more
'Donald Ruggiero Lo Sardo' 'Elise Darragh-Ford' 'Douglas Guilbeault'] Natural language processing models learn word representations based on the distributional hypothesis, which asserts that word context (e.g., co-occurrence) correlates with meaning. We propose that n-grams composed of random character sequences, or…
Termuende, Matthew, Larson, Kevin + 2 more
— When a reader encounters a word in English, they split the word into smaller orthographic units in the process of recognizing its meaning. For example, "rough", when split according to phonemes, is decomposed as r-ou-gh (not as r-o-ugh or r-ough), where each group of letters corresponds to a sound. Since there are…
Stéphanie Massol, Jonathan Grainger
The primary result of the present study is the finding of a novel sentence superiority effect (SSE) on letter-in-word identification. Letter identification accuracy in words (e.g., the letter V in OVER) was greater when the embedding word (OVER) was itself embedded in a grammatically correct sequence of words (HE LOOKS…
Jayakanth Kunhoth, Somaya Al‐Maadeed, Moutaz Saleh, Younes Akbari
Diagnosis in Children from Handwriting Samples Authors: ['Jayakanth Kunhoth' 'Somaya Al‐Maadeed' 'Moutaz Saleh' 'Younes Akbari'] Developmental dysgraphia is a neurological disorder that hinders children's writing skills. The heterogeneous nature of dysgraphia symptoms and its frequent co-occurrence with other disorders…