ERP evidence for the time course of mental rotation in the mirror reading of Chinese words

Hu, Wei; Lu, Yong; Ren, Changling; Zhang, Junyi

doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2013.07.041

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“…However, Schendan and Kutas predicted smaller N350 for matched objects than non-matched ones and indeed N350 was larger for new than repeated objects [38], [44]. This is opposite to the N200 we found which is larger for repeated words than controls, and larger for normal Chinese characters than their mirror images [45].…”

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Does N200 Reflect Semantic Processing?—An ERP Study on Chinese Visual Word Recognition

Zhang

2014

PLoS ONE

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Recent event-related potential research has reported a N200 response or a negative deflection peaking around 200 ms following the visual presentation of two-character Chinese words. This N200 shows amplitude enhancement upon immediate repetition and there has been preliminary evidence that it reflects orthographic processing but not semantic processing. The present study tested whether this N200 is indeed unrelated to semantic processing with more sensitive measures, including the use of two tasks engaging semantic processing either implicitly or explicitly and the adoption of a within-trial priming paradigm. In Exp. 1, participants viewed repeated, semantically related and unrelated prime-target word pairs as they performed a lexical decision task judging whether or not each target was a real word. In Exp. 2, participants viewed high-related, low-related and unrelated word pairs as they performed a semantic task judging whether each word pair was related in meaning. In both tasks, semantic priming was found from both the behavioral data and the N400 ERP responses. Critically, while repetition priming elicited a clear and large enhancement on the N200 response, semantic priming did not show any modulation effect on the same response. The results indicate that the N200 repetition enhancement effect cannot be explained with semantic priming and that this specific N200 response is unlikely to reflect semantic processing.

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Does N200 Reflect Semantic Processing?—An ERP Study on Chinese Visual Word Recognition

Zhang

2014

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“…This finding suggests that mental manipulation of objects follows laws akin to those for real manipulation of physical objects. MR have been extensively studied in cognitive psychology during these four decades, with stimuli including images of two- or three-dimensional graphics (Jolicoeur, 1985 , 1988 , 1990 ; Schendan and Lucia, 2009 ; Wraga et al, 2010 ), letters like characters (Tarr and Pinker, 1989 ; Hu et al, 2013 ), body parts (Cooper and Shepard, 1975 ; Horst et al, 2012 ), scenes (Zacks et al, 2003 ; Dalecki et al, 2012 ), and chemical formula (Huang and Liu, 2012 ). Stimuli of objects MR are usually images of two- or three-dimensional graphics, and characters.…”

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Objects Mental Rotation under 7 Days Simulated Weightlessness Condition: An ERP Study

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Duan

Yang

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Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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During the spaceflight under weightlessness condition, human's brain function may be affected by the changes of physiological effects along with the distribution of blood and body fluids to the head. This variation of brain function will influence the performance of astronauts and therefore create possible harm to flight safety. This study employs 20 male subjects in a 7-day−6° head-down tilted (HDT) bed rest model to simulate physiological effects under weightlessness condition, and use behavioral, electrophysiological techniques to compare the changes of mental rotation ability (MR ability) before and after short-term simulated weightlessness state. Behavioral results suggested that significant linear relationship existed between the rotation angle of stimuli and the reaction time, which means mental rotation process do happen during the MR task in simulated weightlessness state. In the first 3 days, the P300 component induced by object mental rotation followed the “down-up-down” pattern. In the following 4 days it changed randomly. On HDT D2, the mean of the amplitude of the P300 was the lowest, while increased gently on HDT D3. There was no obvious changing pattern of the amplitude of P300 observed after 3 days of HDT. Simulated weightlessness doesn't change the basic process of mental rotation. The effect of simulated weightlessness is neural mechanism of self-adaptation. MR ability didn't bounce back to the original level after HDT test.

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ERP evidence for the time course of mental rotation in the mirror reading of Chinese words

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Does N200 Reflect Semantic Processing?—An ERP Study on Chinese Visual Word Recognition

Does N200 Reflect Semantic Processing?—An ERP Study on Chinese Visual Word Recognition

Objects Mental Rotation under 7 Days Simulated Weightlessness Condition: An ERP Study

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