Orthographic and Phonological Facilitation from Unattended Words: Evidence for Bilateral Processing

Chiarello, Christine; Hasbrooke, Ronald E.; Maxfield, Lisa

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“…The hemispheric distribution of the effects, with recordings over the left hemisphere sensitive to both phonological priming and orthographic congruence and those over the right hemisphere sensitive only to phonological priming, is difficult to interpret given the poor spatial resolution of the ERP method: It should not be assumed that left‐lateralized effects have left hemisphere generators. That being said, behavioral studies using the divided visual field technique have reported both orthographic and phonological facilitation in pronouncing target words for both right and left visual field presentations of priming words (e.g., Chiarello & Hasbrooke, ), consistent with roles for both hemispheres in single‐word language processing. Others have similarly reported that single‐word phonological and orthographic codes are represented in both hemispheres in spoken word processing, but that integration occurs primarily in the left hemisphere (e.g., Zecker, Tanenhaus, Alderman, & Siqueland, ), consistent with our finding of less priming for nonmatching targets over left hemisphere sites.…”

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An ERP study of cross‐modal rhyming: Influences of phonology and orthography

Mitra

Coch

2018

Psychophysiology

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In a cross‐modal rhyming study with visual pseudoword primes and auditory word targets, we found a typical ERP rhyming effect such that nonrhyming targets elicited a larger N400/N450 than rhyming targets. An orthographic effect was also apparent in the same 350‐ to 600‐ms epoch as the phonological effect: The rhyming effect for targets with rime orthography that did not match their primes' (e.g., tain‐“sane”) was smaller over the left hemisphere than the rhyming effect for targets with rime orthography that did match their primes' (e.g., nain‐“gain”), although the spellings of the auditory word targets were never explicitly shown. Our results indicate that this cross‐modal ERP rhyming effect indexes both phonological and orthographic processing—for auditory stimuli for which no orthography is presented in the task. This pattern of findings is consistent with the notion of coactivation of sublexical orthography and phonology in fluent adult readers as they both read and listen.

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An ERP study of cross‐modal rhyming: Influences of phonology and orthography

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Coch

2018

Psychophysiology

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“…The further left on the handedness continuum, the more reading errors are made (Annett, 1991;Tremblay, Monetta, & Joanette, 2004). Moreover, it has been established that while the right hemisphere may have a role in phonological processing of print, the left hemisphere is far more suited for this task when phonological processing complexities increase (Chiarello, Hasbrooke, & Maxfield, 1999).…”

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Does a continuous measure of handedness predict reading processes and reading-related skills across the lifespan?

Brenneman

Decker

Meyers

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Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition

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The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between handedness, reading skills, and reading-related cognitive processes. Although lateralised differences in brain functioning are well known, research regarding handedness, specific reading skills, and reading-related cognitive processes is ambiguous at best because handedness is often measured as a dichotomous variable rather than a continuous variable. This methodological difference contributes to the diverse research findings, therefore the present investigation addressed these methodological limitations. A large normative sample of up to 1383 participants who ranged in age from 4 to 80 completed the Woodcock Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery-Revised (Woodcock & Johnson, 1989a, 1989b) or the Woodcock Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery-Third Edition (Woodcock, McGrew, & Mather, 2001) in combination with the Dean Woodcock Sensory Motor Battery (Dean & Woodcock, 2003) lateral preference scale, a continuous measure of handedness. Polynomial multiple regression analyses indicated curvilinear relationships between handedness and reading skills, along with handedness and auditory working memory. Individuals towards the extremes of the handedness continuum performed less well on the reading-related tasks. Therefore, just knowing a general classification of right, left, or mixed handed will not provide significant knowledge regarding lateralisation or potential cognitive and academic consequences but rather knowledge of an individual's hand preference on a continuum may well be useful for evaluative purposes.

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Evidence for right hemisphere phonology in a backward masking task

Halderman

2011

Brain and Language

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The extent to which orthographic and phonological processes are available during the initial moments of word recognition within each hemisphere is under specified, particularly for the right hemisphere. Few studies have investigated whether each hemisphere uses orthography and phonology under constraints that restrict the viewing time of words and reduce overt phonological demands. The current study used backward masking in the divided visual field paradigm to explore hemisphere differences in the availability of orthographic and phonological word recognition processes. A 20 ms and 60 ms SOA were used to track the time course of how these processes develop during pre-lexical moments of word recognition. Nonword masks varied in similarity to the target words such that there were four types: orthographically and phonologically similar, orthographically but not phonologically similar, phonologically but not orthographically similar and unrelated. The results showed the left hemisphere has access to both orthography and phonology early in the word recognition process. With more time to process the stimulus, the left hemisphere is able to usephonology which benefits word recognition to a larger extent than orthography. The right hemisphere also demonstrates access to both orthography and phonology in the initial moments of word recognition, however, orthographic similarity improves word recognition to a greater extent than phonological similarity.

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Orthographic and Phonological Facilitation from Unattended Words: Evidence for Bilateral Processing

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

An ERP study of cross‐modal rhyming: Influences of phonology and orthography

An ERP study of cross‐modal rhyming: Influences of phonology and orthography

Does a continuous measure of handedness predict reading processes and reading-related skills across the lifespan?

Evidence for right hemisphere phonology in a backward masking task

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