N170 reflects visual familiarity and automatic sublexical phonological access in L2 written word processing

Yum, Yen Na Cherry; Law, Syk

doi:10.1017/s1366728920000759

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“…Therefore, the ERP analyses on the P2 amplitude were conducted to test comparisons between the L2 Chinese and English groups separately in each of all four conditions. We only report amplitude data because previous studies ( Maurer et al, 2008 ; Yum et al, 2014 ; Yum and Law, 2021 ) did not find statistically significant differences in latency. Figure 4 show the differences in amplitude voltage between the conditions for L2 Chinese and English separately.…”

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RETRACTED: Neural Correlates of Handwriting Effects in L2 Learners

Guan

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Learning to write involves integrating motor production and visual perception to develop orthographic representations. This study tries to test the effect of hand movement training as a pathway to neural correlates for L2 Chinese and L2 English readers. Twenty L2 Chinese and 20 L2 English (n = 20) adults participated in both behavioral and electroencephalogram (EEG) experiments. We designed six learning conditions: Hand Writing Chinese (HC), Viewing Chinese (VC), Drawing followed by Character Recognition in Chinese (DC), Hand Writing English (HE), Viewing English (VE), and Drawing followed by Word Recognition in English (DE). Behavioral and EEG results demonstrated that drawing facilitated visual word recognition in Chinese compared to viewing. The findings imply that hand movement could strengthen the neural processing and improve behavioral performance in Chinese character recognition for L2 Chinese learners and English word recognition for L2 Chinese learners. Furthermore, N170 amplitude at the drawing condition was positively correlated with N400 amplitudes. Thus, the early visual word recognition neural indicator (e.g., N170) was predictive of the late neural indicator of semantic processing (e.g., N400), suggesting that hand movement facilitates the neural correlates between early word recognition and later comprehension.

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Section: Erp Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

RETRACTED: Neural Correlates of Handwriting Effects in L2 Learners

Guan

2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…Table 2 shows the descriptive statistics of EEG data of all conditions. In addition, like previous studies (Maurer et al, 2008;Yum et al, 2014;Yum and Law, 2021), latency was analyzed, but the results were not significant, so we only report the EEG amplitude data results. Differences between the conditions are shown for children in Figure 3B and for adults in Figure 4B.…”

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Effect of Handwriting on Visual Word Recognition in Chinese Bilingual Children and Adults

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In a digital era that neglects handwriting, the current study is significant because it examines the mechanisms underlying this process. We recruited 9- to 10-year-old Chinese children (n = 24), who were at an important period of handwriting development, and adult college students (n = 24), for both behavioral and electroencephalogram (EEG) experiments. We designed four learning conditions: handwriting Chinese (HC), viewing Chinese (VC), drawing shapes followed by Chinese recognition (DC), and drawing shapes followed by English recognition (DE). Both behavioral and EEG results showed that HC facilitated visual word recognition compared to VC, and behavioral results showed that HC facilitated visual word recognition compared to drawing shapes. HC and VC resulted in a lateralization of the N170 in adults, but not in children. Taken together, the results of the study suggest benefits of handwriting on the neural processing and behavioral performance in response to Chinese characters. The study results argue for maintaining handwriting practices to promote the perception of visual word forms in the digital age.

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“…There is substantial evidence indicating that one’s learning experience with a particular writing system significantly impacts ERP responses. In addition to the previously mentioned study by Wong et al [ 24 ], which showed how expertise with print influenced N170 responses during orthographic processing, several research groups have further demonstrated that enhanced visual familiarity or expertise in learning Chinese leads to a pronounced left-lateralized N170 response for Chinese characters [ 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 ]. Similar to the N170 response, Liu, Perfetti, and Wang [ 29 ] found that native English speakers who had some experience learning Chinese showed a larger N200 response for disyllabic Chinese words than for English words.…”

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Language Experience Modulates the Visual N200 Response for Disyllabic Chinese Words: An Event-Related Potential Study

Liu,

Zhang

2023

Brain Sciences

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Prior event-related potential (ERP) research on how the brain processes non-alphabetic scripts like Chinese has identified an N200 component related to early visual processing of Chinese disyllabic words. An enhanced N200 response was observed when similar prime-target pairs were presented, but it was not elicited when native Chinese speakers read Korean Hangul, a script resembling Chinese characters. This led to the proposal that N200 was not a universal marker for orthographic processing but rather specific and unique to Chinese. However, there was uncertainty due to the absence of Korean participants in the previous research. The impact of language experience on N200 remains unclear. To address this, the present pilot ERP study included three adult groups (totaling 30 participants) with varying language proficiency levels. The participants judged if randomly presented words were Chinese or Korean, while the ERP responses were recorded. The behavioral data showed high accuracy across the groups. The reaction times differed between the groups with the native speakers responding faster. The N200 patterns varied across the groups. Both Chinese native speakers and Chinese-as-second-language learners showed stronger N200 responses for Chinese words compared to Korean words regardless of whether an adaptive or a fixed-time window was used for the N200 quantification, but this was not the case for Korean native speakers. Our cross-linguistic study suggests that N200 is not exclusive to Chinese orthography. Instead, it reflects general visual processing sensitive to both orthographic features and learning experience.

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N170 reflects visual familiarity and automatic sublexical phonological access in L2 written word processing

Cited by 9 publications

References 43 publications

RETRACTED: Neural Correlates of Handwriting Effects in L2 Learners

RETRACTED: Neural Correlates of Handwriting Effects in L2 Learners

Effect of Handwriting on Visual Word Recognition in Chinese Bilingual Children and Adults

Language Experience Modulates the Visual N200 Response for Disyllabic Chinese Words: An Event-Related Potential Study

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