Tracking the time course of lexical access in orthographic production: An event-related potential study of word frequency effects in written picture naming

Qu, Qingqing; Zhang, Qingfang; Damian, Markus F.

doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2016.06.008

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“…People spend less time preparing to write and actually writing a more frequent character, and they are also more accurate at writing it. These frequency effects are consistent with previous findings in handwriting (e.g., Kandel & Perret, 2015;Qu et al, 2016;, and indeed also in spoken word/character production (e.g., Balota & Ferraro, 1993;Chang et al, 2016;Jescheniak & Levelt, 1994;Lee et al, 2005). A similar advantage in writing latency, writing duration, and accuracy is also observed when a character is embedded in a more familiar word.…”

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“…This finding is consistent some previous studies. For instance, Qu and colleagues (Qu et al, 2011;Qu et al, 2016) showed that a masked prime that is phonologically related to a subsequent target character can facilitate handwriting of the target character; Kandel and Perret (2015) showed longer handwriting latencies (for accessing orthographic codes) for words that are irregular rather than regular in spelling. These findings suggest that people can make use of phonological cues to facilitate access to the target orthographic representations.…”

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“…First, there are frequency-related factors. Many studies have shown that people are quicker at writing high-than writing low-frequency words or characters (Kandel & Perret, 2015;Qu, Zhang, & Damian, 2016;Søvik, Arntzen, Samuelstuen, & Heggberget, 1994;. Syllable frequency has also been shown to affect spoken word production, with people being faster at producing higher-frequency syllables (Carreiras & Perea, 2004;Cholin, Levelt, & Schiller, 2006;Q.…”

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Chinese character handwriting: A large-scale behavioral study and a database

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We report on a psycholinguistic database of Chinese character handwriting based on a large-scale study that involved 203 participants, each handwriting 200 characters randomly sampled from a cohort of 1,600 characters. Apart from collecting writing latencies, durations, and accuracy, we also compiled 14 lexical variables for each character. Regressions showed that frequency, age of acquisition, and the word context (in which a character appears) are all-around and influential predictors of orthographic access (as reflected in writing latency), motor execution of handwriting (as reflected in writing duration), and accuracy. In addition, phonological factors (phonogram status, spelling regularity, and homophone density) impacted orthographic access but not handwriting execution. Semantic factors (imageability and concreteness) only affected accuracy. These results suggest, among other things, that phonology is consulted in orthographic access while handwriting. As the first of its kind, this database can be used as a source of secondary data analyses and a tool for stimulus construction in handwriting research.

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“…Moreover, to measure writing‐specific sex differences appropriately, other handwriting‐related variables including reading, cognitive, and basic visual‐motor skills were matched between males and females. Word frequency is a vital language factor that influences orthographic access and motor execution during handwriting (Kandel & Perret, ; Qu, Zhang, & Damian, ; S. Roux, Mckeeff, Grosjacques, Afonso, & Kandel, ; Zhang & Cheng, ). Previous fMRI studies have demonstrated that word frequency modulates brain activity related to handwriting in superior/middle frontal gyrus, inferior parietal lobule and fusiform gyrus (Rapp & Dufor, ; Yang et al, ).…”

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Men and women differ in the neural basis of handwriting

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There is an ongoing debate about whether, and to what extent, males differ from females in their language skills. In the case of handwriting, a composite language skill involving language and motor processes, behavioral observations consistently show robust sex differences but the mechanisms underlying the effect are unclear. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in a copying task, the present study examined the neural basis of sex differences in handwriting in 53 healthy adults (ages 19–28, 27 males). Compared to females, males showed increased activation in the left posterior middle frontal gyrus (Exner's area), a region thought to support the conversion between orthographic and graphomotor codes. Functional connectivity between Exner's area and the right cerebellum was greater in males than in females. Furthermore, sex differences in brain activity related to handwriting were independent of language material. This study identifies a novel neural signature of sex differences in a hallmark of human behavior, and highlights the importance of considering sex as a factor in scientific research and clinical applications involving handwriting.

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“…A new sequence was generated for each participant and each block. Note that a design in which each target is presented and named multiple times is quite common in spoken word production and usually considered to be unproblematic (i.e., Zhu et al, 2015;Qu et al, 2016;Zhang and Damian, 2019). Nevertheless, in the latency analysis reported below, we included "repetition" as an addition factor to check for potential effects of multiple target presentation.…”

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The Effect of Lexical Cohort Size Is Independent of Semantic Context Effects in a Picture–Word Interference Task: A Combined ERP and sLORETA Study

Ouyang

Cai

Zhang

2019

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Lexical cohort size is known to play an important role in the magnitude of semantic interference during picture naming in continuous and blocking naming tasks. Nevertheless, whether and how lexical cohort size influences semantic context effects in a picture-word interference (PWI) task remains unclear. To address this issue, participants were required to name pictures, which were paired with both semantically related and unrelated distractors, from both large and small lexical cohorts while electroencephalogram (EEG) signals were recorded. Behavior results showed a semantic interference effect but no interaction between semantic relatedness and lexical cohort size in naming latencies. ERPs and correlation analyses revealed that semantic interference effects occurred at the lexical level in the time windows of 200-400 and 400-600 ms, and lexical cohort size effects occurred at the conceptual level in the time window of 100-200 ms and at the lexical level in the time windows of 200-400 ms. Critically, no interaction between two variables was found, reflecting that lexical cohort size is independent of semantic interference for categorical relations in the PWI. sLORETA results found stronger brain activations for large lexical cohorts at the left superior temporal gyrus and inferior frontal gyrus in the time interval of 250-300 ms, which may relate to lexical selection and self-monitoring. Our findings provide evidence for the swinging lexical network rather than the response exclusion hypothesis in spoken production.

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Tracking the time course of lexical access in orthographic production: An event-related potential study of word frequency effects in written picture naming

Cited by 35 publications

References 61 publications

Chinese character handwriting: A large-scale behavioral study and a database

Chinese character handwriting: A large-scale behavioral study and a database

Men and women differ in the neural basis of handwriting

The Effect of Lexical Cohort Size Is Independent of Semantic Context Effects in a Picture–Word Interference Task: A Combined ERP and sLORETA Study

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