Rapid modulation of spoken word recognition by visual primes

Abstract

In a masked cross-modal priming experiment with ERP recordings, spoken Japanese words were primed with words written in one of the two syllabary scripts of Japanese. An early priming effect, peaking at around 200ms after onset of the spoken word target, was seen in left lateral electrode sites for Katakana primes, and later effects were seen for both Hiragana and Katakana primes on the N400 ERP component. The early effect is thought to reflect the efficiency with which words in Katakana script make contact with sublexical phonological representations involved in spoken language comprehension, due to the particular way this script is used by Japanese readers. This demonstrates fast-acting influences of visual primes on the processing of auditory target words, and suggests that briefly presented visual primes can influence sublexical processing of auditory target words. The later N400 priming effects, on the other hand, most likely reflect cross-modal influences on activity at the level of whole-word phonology and semantics.

P3b distinguishes Category Processing in CRS

“…[1] The event can be a stimulus presentation followed by sensory-related operations, cognitive control operations, affective operations, or memory-related operations. There are many ERP components used in language studies, such as P3b, N400, and P600 [2,3,4,5,6,7] . P3b 350~550ms Comerchero & Polich refers to the ERPs components induced by impossibility events [8] , e.g., P3b component shows signi cant differences between accurate feedback and false feedback, and between learning tasks of arithmetic rule with highly cognitive demanding and perceptual motion tasks with relatively simple skills [2] .…”