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Taha H. How Can Orthographic Representations in Arabic Contribute to Phoneme Awareness Development? JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH 2023; 52:555-567. [PMID: 35927531 DOI: 10.1007/s10936-022-09908-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/18/2022] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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The contribution of the orthographic representations to the development of phonemic awareness in Arabic was tested among 289 native Arab readers from the second, the fourth, and the sixth grade. Phonemic awareness was tested by using two phonemic segmentation tasks: words and pseudowords. The participants' words and pseudowords reading and spelling skills beside to orthographic knowledge were tested also. The results revealed that the accuracy levels of phoneme segmentation of words were higher than pseudowords for all ages. In addition, the results revealed that the pseudowords reading skills and the orthographic knowledge contributed significantly to the phoneme segmentations of words and pseudowords. The results were discussed in light of the assumption that in transparent orthographies, such like Arabic, the grain size of phoneme awareness development is contributed by capturing the correspondences between the phonology and the orthography and the orthographic representations development.
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- Haitham Taha
- The Cognitive Lab for Learning and Reading Research and the Learning Disabilities department, Sakhnin College for Teacher Education, P.O.Box 100, Sakhnin, Israel.
- The Learning Disabilities Department, Western Galilee College, Akko, Israel.
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Iniesta A, Bajo MT, Rivera M, Paolieri D. Transfer effects from language processing to visual attention dynamics: The impact of orthographic transparency. Br J Psychol 2023; 114:86-111. [PMID: 36117407 PMCID: PMC10087185 DOI: 10.1111/bjop.12598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2021] [Revised: 08/18/2022] [Accepted: 08/28/2022] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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The consistency between letters and sounds varies across languages. These differences have been proposed to be associated with different reading mechanisms (lexical vs. phonological), processing grain sizes (coarse vs. fine) and attentional windows (whole words vs. individual letters). This study aimed to extend this idea to writing to dictation. For that purpose, we evaluated whether the use of different types of processing has a differential impact on local windowing attention: phonological (local) processing in a transparent language (Spanish) and lexical (global) processing of an opaque language (English). Spanish and English monolinguals (Experiment 1) and Spanish-English bilinguals (Experiment 2) performed a writing to dictation task followed by a global-local task. The first key performance showed a critical dissociation between languages: the response times (RTs) from the Spanish writing to dictation task was modulated by word length, whereas the RTs from the English writing to dictation task was modulated by word frequency and age of acquisition, as evidence that language transparency biases processing towards phonological or lexical strategies. In addition, after a Spanish task, participants more efficiently processed local information, which resulted in both the benefit of global congruent information and the reduced cost of incongruent global information. Additionally, the results showed that bilinguals adapt their attentional processing depending on the orthographic transparency.
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- Antonio Iniesta
- Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC), Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC), Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC), Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC), Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
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Türk S, Domahs U. Orthographic influences on spoken word recognition in bilinguals are dependent on the orthographic depth of the target language not the native language. BRAIN AND LANGUAGE 2022; 235:105186. [PMID: 36240536 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2022.105186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2021] [Revised: 09/19/2022] [Accepted: 09/21/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Reading acquisition leads to the restructuring of representational units in the brain, which influences spoken word processing. This makes spoken word recognition a bimodal process. However, the organization of phonological and orthographic units is dependent on the orthographic depth of the writing system and might play a role in the bimodal processing of spoken words. We investigated this question across two EEG experiments with German native speakers using an auditory priming paradigm and manipulating phonological (e.g., Reh - Tee) and orthographic (e.g., See - Tee) overlap between prime and target. Experiment 1 was conducted in German and revealed inhibitory effects for orthographic overlap, but facilitating effects for phonological overlap. Experiment 2 was conducted in English and revealed facilitating effects for orthographic and phonological overlap. We conclude that orthography influences spoken word processing in both languages, but the nature of the influence is dependent on the orthographic depth of the target language.
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- Stefanie Türk
- University of Marburg, Institute of German Linguistics, Neurolinguistics Group, Pilgrimstein 16, 35032 Marburg, Germany; Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior, University of Marburg, Hans-Meerwein-Straße 6, 35032 Marburg, Germany.
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- University of Marburg, Institute of German Linguistics, Neurolinguistics Group, Pilgrimstein 16, 35032 Marburg, Germany; Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior, University of Marburg, Hans-Meerwein-Straße 6, 35032 Marburg, Germany
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Zhang S, Breuer EO, Grünke M, Joshi RM. Using Spelling Error Analyses to Examine Individual Differences in German Students From Diverse Linguistic Backgrounds: A Latent Class Approach. JOURNAL OF LEARNING DISABILITIES 2022; 55:123-137. [PMID: 34866485 DOI: 10.1177/00222194211059820] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The current study examined German spelling errors among students with German as their first language (L1) and those with German as their second language (L2) in Grades 3-4 (elementary school students; n = 127) and Grades 5-7 (secondary school students; n = 379). Five hundred and six students participated in the study. We performed two separate latent class analyses on elementary and secondary school students. Results indicate that elementary school students can be categorized as good (Class 1), consonant error dominant (Class 2), or poor (Class 3) spellers. However, secondary students can be categorized as addition and sequence error dominant (Class 1), substitution and omission error dominant (Class 2), or poor (Class 3) spellers. The three-step multinomial logistic regression analyses suggested that decoding was associated with the highest chances of being poor spellers in both elementary and secondary schools. Speaking German as L1 or L2 was a significant predictor of heterogeneities in secondary, but not elementary, school students. Polish L1 secondary students had the highest possibility of being poor spellers. The results suggest heterogeneities of student profiles. In addition, special attention should be given to secondary school students with the Polish L1 background in their spelling struggles associated with German orthography.
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- Shuai Zhang
- Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, USA
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Pasqualotto A, Altarelli I, De Angeli A, Menestrina Z, Bavelier D, Venuti P. Enhancing reading skills through a video game mixing action mechanics and cognitive training. Nat Hum Behav 2022; 6:545-554. [PMID: 35039655 DOI: 10.1038/s41562-021-01254-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2020] [Accepted: 11/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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In modern societies, training reading skills is fundamental since poor-reading children are at high risk of struggling both at school and in life. Reading relies not only on oral language abilities but also on several executive functions. Considering their importance for literacy, training executive functions-particularly, attentional control has been suggested as a promising way of improving reading skills. For this reason, we developed a video game-based cognitive intervention aimed at improving several facets of executive functions. This game is composed of mini-games that apply gamified versions of standard clinical exercises linked through a game environment with action video game dynamics. Here, in a study involving 151 typically reading children, we demonstrated that after this general-domain behavioural intervention reading abilities, as well as attentional and planning skills, were significantly improved. Our results showed that training attentional control can translate into better reading efficiency, maintained at a follow-up test 6 months later.
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- Angela Pasqualotto
- Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Trento, Italy. .,Faculte de Psychologie et Science de l'Education, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
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- Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.,Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
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- Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
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- Faculte de Psychologie et Science de l'Education, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
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- Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
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Huo MR, Koh P, Cheng Y, Marinova-Todd SH, Chen X. The simple view of reading in French second language learners. LEARNING AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2021.102082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Bakhtiar M, Mokhlesin M, Pattamadilok C, Politzer-Ahles S, Zhang C. The Effect of Orthographic Transparency on Auditory Word Recognition Across the Development of Reading Proficiency. Front Psychol 2021; 12:691989. [PMID: 34385960 PMCID: PMC8353368 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.691989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2021] [Accepted: 07/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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A question under debate in psycholinguistics is the nature of the relationship between spoken and written languages. Although it has been extensively shown that orthographic transparency, which varies across writing systems, strongly affects reading performance, its role in speech processing is much less investigated. The present study addressed this issue in Persian, whose writing system provides a possibility to assess the impact of orthographic transparency on spoken word recognition in young children at different stages of reading acquisition. In Persian, the long vowels are systematically present in the script, whereas the spelling correspondence of short vowels is progressively omitted from the script in the course of reading acquisition, thus, turning transparent into opaque spelling. Based on this unique characteristic, we tested 144 monolingual Persian-speaking nonreaders (i.e., preschoolers) and readers (second graders to fifth graders and young adults) in an auditory lexical decision task using transparent and opaque words. Overall, the results showed that, in accordance with the fact that the diacritics of short vowels are progressively omitted during the second year of schooling, the stimuli containing short vowels (opaque words) were recognized more slowly than transparent ones in third graders. Interestingly, there is a hint that the emergence of the transparency effect in the third graders was associated with an overall slower recognition speed in this group compared to their younger peers. These findings indicate that learning opaque spelling-sound correspondence might not only generate interference between the two language codes but also induce a general processing cost in the entire spoken language system.
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- Mehdi Bakhtiar
- Unit of Human Communication, Development, and Information Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Neuromuscular Rehabilitation Research Center, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran
- Department of Speech Therapy, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
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Łockiewicz M, Jaskulska M, Fawcett A. Decoding and word recognition in English as a native and a foreign language in students with and without dyslexia (English vs. Polish students). DYSLEXIA (CHICHESTER, ENGLAND) 2020; 26:18-35. [PMID: 32043745 DOI: 10.1002/dys.1648] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2019] [Revised: 05/29/2019] [Accepted: 11/26/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We aimed to investigate the relationship between reading difficulties in native language (NL: Polish) and English as a foreign language in dyslexia in English and Polish students, respectively, and to develop a model of relations between NL phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming, verbal short-term memory, and reading in English. Thirteen English students with dyslexia (ED), 15 without (END) and 16 Polish students with dyslexia (PD) and 16 without (PND) participated. We found that dyslexic deficits and different phoneme-to-grapheme correspondence rules between Polish and English interfered with the accuracy and fluency of word and nonword decoding and word recognition. Whereas END scored higher than PD and PND in all reading measures, ED did not, despite a NL advantage. When compared with PND, ED performed equal in nonword decoding, which depends to a higher degree on phoneme-to-grapheme conversion rather than lexical access. When compared with PD, ED performed equally in nonword fluency, which is most likely a nonscript-dependant skill. More variance in reading was explained by NL than FL factors, even if analogical NL/FL skills predicted a given variable. While in ED and END, these relationships agreed with the literature; in PD and PND, NL phonological awareness was not beneficial for English as a foreign language reading.
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- Marta Łockiewicz
- Social Sciences Faculty, Institute of Psychology, University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
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- Social Sciences Faculty, Institute of Psychology, University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
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- Department of Psychology, Swansea University, Swansea, UK
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Förster N, Souvignier E. Effects of Providing Teachers With Information About Their Students' Reading Progress. SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY REVIEW 2019. [DOI: 10.17105/spr44-1.60-75] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Asadi IA. How the Characteristics of Phonemes and Syllabic Structures can Impact the Phonological Awareness of Kindergarten and First-Grade Arabic-Speaking Children. READING PSYCHOLOGY 2019. [DOI: 10.1080/02702711.2019.1674431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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- Ibrahim A. Asadi
- Department of Special Education and Learning Disabilities, The Academic Arab College for Education, Haifa, Israel
- The Unit for the Study of Arabic Language, Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center for the Study of Learning Disabilities, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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Davidson D, Vanegas SB, Hilvert E, Rainey VR, Misiunaite I. Examination of monolingual (English) and bilingual (English/Spanish; English/Urdu) children's syntactic awareness. JOURNAL OF CHILD LANGUAGE 2019; 46:682-706. [PMID: 30868992 DOI: 10.1017/s0305000919000059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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In this study, monolingual (English) and bilingual (English/Spanish, English/Urdu) five- and six-year-old children completed a grammaticality judgment test in order to assess their awareness of the grammaticality of two types of syntactic constructions in English: word order and gender representation. All children were better at detecting grammatically correct and incorrect word order constructions than gender constructions, regardless of language group. In fact, bilingualism per se did not impact the results as much as receptive vocabulary range. For example, children with the highest receptive vocabulary scores were more accurate in detecting incorrect word order constructions (i.e., word order violations, semantic anomalies) and incorrect gender agreement than children in the lower receptive vocabulary ranges. However, no differences were found between the ranges for ambiguous gender constructions. These results highlight the importance of receptive vocabulary ability on syntactic awareness performance, regardless of language group.
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Schmitterer AM, Schroeder S. Young children’s ability to distinguish thematic relations: Development and predictive value for early reading. COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Goswami U. Through a glass darkly: Research biases that result from wearing ‘literate glasses’. ANNEE PSYCHOLOGIQUE 2019. [DOI: 10.3917/anpsy1.184.0349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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The analysis of free writing, vocabulary,
and dyslexia in English as a native and foreign language (English vs. Polish students). HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY REPORT 2019. [DOI: 10.5114/hpr.2019.83385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Cross-linguistic transfer in bilinguals reading in two alphabetic orthographies: The grain size accommodation hypothesis. Psychon Bull Rev 2018; 25:386-401. [PMID: 28405906 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-017-1273-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Reading acquisition is one of the most complex and demanding learning processes faced by children in their first years of schooling. If reading acquisition is challenging in one language, how is it when reading is acquired simultaneously in two languages? What is the impact of bilingualism on the development of literacy? We review behavioral and neuroimaging evidence from alphabetic writing systems suggesting that early bilingualism modulates reading development. Particularly, we show that cross-linguistic variations and cross-linguistic transfer affect bilingual reading strategies as well as their cognitive underpinnings. We stress the fact that the impact of bilingualism on literacy acquisition depends on the specific combination of languages learned and does not manifest itself similarly across bilingual populations. We argue that these differences can be explained by variations due to orthographic depth in the grain sizes used to perform reading and reading-related tasks. Overall, we propose novel hypotheses to shed light on the behavioral and neural variability observed in reading skills among bilinguals.
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Bühler JC, von Oertzen T, McBride CA, Stoll S, Maurer U. Influence of dialect use on early reading and spelling acquisition in German-speaking children in Grade 1. JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY 2018. [DOI: 10.1080/20445911.2018.1444614] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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- Jessica C. Bühler
- Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychology, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Neubiberg, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T, Hong Kong
- Brain and Mind Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T, Hong Kong
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- Department of Comparative Linguistics, Psycholinguistics Laboratory, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T, Hong Kong
- Brain and Mind Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T, Hong Kong
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Megherbi H, Elbro C, Oakhill J, Segui J, New B. The emergence of automaticity in reading: Effects of orthographic depth and word decoding ability on an adjusted Stroop measure. J Exp Child Psychol 2017; 166:652-663. [PMID: 29125951 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2017.09.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2017] [Revised: 09/15/2017] [Accepted: 09/18/2017] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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How long does it take for word reading to become automatic? Does the appearance and development of automaticity differ as a function of orthographic depth (e.g., French vs. English)? These questions were addressed in a longitudinal study of English and French beginning readers. The study focused on automaticity as obligatory processing as measured in the Stroop test. Measures of decoding ability and the Stroop effect were taken at three time points during first grade (and during second grade in the United Kingdom) in 84 children. The study is the first to adjust the classic Stroop effect for inhibition (of distracting colors). The adjusted Stroop effect was zero in the absence of reading ability, and it was found to develop in tandem with decoding ability. After a further control for decoding, no effects of age or orthography were found on the adjusted Stroop measure. The results are in line with theories of the development of whole word recognition that emphasize the importance of the acquisition of the basic orthographic code.
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- Hakima Megherbi
- Université Paris 13 - Sorbonne Paris Cité (SPC), EA 4403 - UTRPP - 93430 Villetaneuse, France.
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- University of Copenhagen, DK-1165 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Institut de Psychologie, Université Paris Descartes, 75006 Paris, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, LPNC, 38000 Grenoble, France; Université Savoie Mont Blanc, LPNC, 73000 Chambéry, France
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Cutini S, Szűcs D, Mead N, Huss M, Goswami U. Atypical right hemisphere response to slow temporal modulations in children with developmental dyslexia. Neuroimage 2016; 143:40-49. [PMID: 27520749 PMCID: PMC5139981 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.08.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2016] [Revised: 07/22/2016] [Accepted: 08/08/2016] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Phase entrainment of neuronal oscillations is thought to play a central role in encoding speech. Children with developmental dyslexia show impaired phonological processing of speech, proposed theoretically to be related to atypical phase entrainment to slower temporal modulations in speech (<10Hz). While studies of children with dyslexia have found atypical phase entrainment in the delta band (~2Hz), some studies of adults with developmental dyslexia have shown impaired entrainment in the low gamma band (~35-50Hz). Meanwhile, studies of neurotypical adults suggest asymmetric temporal sensitivity in auditory cortex, with preferential processing of slower modulations by right auditory cortex, and faster modulations processed bilaterally. Here we compared neural entrainment to slow (2Hz) versus faster (40Hz) amplitude-modulated noise using fNIRS to study possible hemispheric asymmetry effects in children with developmental dyslexia. We predicted atypical right hemisphere responding to 2Hz modulations for the children with dyslexia in comparison to control children, but equivalent responding to 40Hz modulations in both hemispheres. Analyses of HbO concentration revealed a right-lateralised region focused on the supra-marginal gyrus that was more active in children with dyslexia than in control children for 2Hz stimulation. We discuss possible links to linguistic prosodic processing, and interpret the data with respect to a neural 'temporal sampling' framework for conceptualizing the phonological deficits that characterise children with developmental dyslexia across languages.
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- Simone Cutini
- Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Padova, Italy
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- Centre for Neuroscience in Education, Department of Psychology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EB, UK
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- Centre for Neuroscience in Education, Department of Psychology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EB, UK
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- Centre for Neuroscience in Education, Department of Psychology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EB, UK
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- Centre for Neuroscience in Education, Department of Psychology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EB, UK.
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Difficulties of Polish students with dyslexia in reading and spelling in English as L2. LEARNING AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2016.08.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Tiadi A, Seassau M, Gerard CL, Bucci MP. Differences between Dyslexic and Non-Dyslexic Children in the Performance of Phonological Visual-Auditory Recognition Tasks: An Eye-Tracking Study. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0159190. [PMID: 27438352 PMCID: PMC4954654 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0159190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2015] [Accepted: 06/28/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The object of this study was to explore further phonological visual-auditory recognition tasks in a group of fifty-six healthy children (mean age: 9.9 ± 0.3) and to compare these data to those recorded in twenty-six age-matched dyslexic children (mean age: 9.8 ± 0.2). Eye movements from both eyes were recorded using an infrared video-oculography system (MobileEBT® e(y)e BRAIN). The recognition task was performed under four conditions in which the target object was displayed either with phonologically unrelated objects (baseline condition), or with cohort or rhyme objects (cohort and rhyme conditions, respectively), or both together (rhyme + cohort condition). The percentage of the total time spent on the targets and the latency of the first saccade on the target were measured. Results in healthy children showed that the percentage of the total time spent in the baseline condition was significantly longer than in the other conditions, and that the latency of the first saccade in the cohort condition was significantly longer than in the other conditions; interestingly, the latency decreased significantly with the increasing age of the children. The developmental trend of phonological awareness was also observed in healthy children only. In contrast, we observed that for dyslexic children the total time spent on the target was similar in all four conditions tested, and also that they had similar latency values in both cohort and rhyme conditions. These findings suggest a different sensitivity to the phonological competitors between dyslexic and non-dyslexic children. Also, the eye-tracking technique provides online information about phonological awareness capabilities in children.
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- Aimé Tiadi
- UMR 1141 Institut National de la Santé Et de Recherche Médicale- Paris Diderot, Robert Debré Hospital, Paris, France
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- UMR 1141 Institut National de la Santé Et de Recherche Médicale- Paris Diderot, Robert Debré Hospital, Paris, France
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Taha H, Saiegh-Haddad E. The Role of Phonological versus Morphological Skills in the Development of Arabic Spelling: An Intervention Study. JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH 2016; 45:507-535. [PMID: 25821152 DOI: 10.1007/s10936-015-9362-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The current study investigated the contribution of two linguistic intervention programs, phonological and morphological to the development of word spelling among skilled and poor native Arabic readers, in three grades: second, fourth and sixth. The participants were assigned to three experimental groups: morphological intervention, phonological intervention and a non-intervention control group. Phonological awareness, morphological awareness, and spelling abilities were tested before and after the intervention. Participants from both linguistic intervention programs and in all grades made significant progress in linguistic awareness and spelling after the intervention. The results showed that both intervention programs were successful in promoting children's spelling skills in both groups. Also, older poor readers showed a stronger response to the morphological intervention than the older skilled readers. A transfer effect was found with the phonological training contributing to the morphological skills and vice versa. The results of the current study were discussed in the light of developmental and psycholinguistic views of spelling acquisition as well as the characteristics of Arabic language and orthography.
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- Haitham Taha
- The Cognitive Lab for Reading and Learning and the Special Education Department, Sakhnin College for Teachers' Education, Sakhnin, Israel.
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- Linguistics Division, English Department, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
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Pfost M. Children’s Phonological Awareness as a Predictor of Reading and Spelling. ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ENTWICKLUNGSPSYCHOLOGIE UND PADAGOGISCHE PSYCHOLOGIE 2015. [DOI: 10.1026/0049-8637/a000141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Abstract. Numerous observational and experimental studies have shown that phonological awareness relates to reading and spelling. However, most studies were conducted in English-speaking countries, neglecting the issue of the generalizability of the findings across different orthographies. This meta-analysis focused exclusively on studies from German-speaking countries and explored how measures of phonological awareness relate longitudinally to reading and spelling. It summarized 19 manuscripts reporting the results of 21 independent studies. Results indicated a mean effect size of Zr = 0.318 (r = .308) for the relation between phonological awareness and later reading and spelling. Moderator analyses showed that phonological awareness on the rhyme level was less related to reading and spelling than phonological awareness on the phoneme level. Furthermore, the predictive power of phonological awareness remained substantial even for children beyond the second grade. The findings suggest that research on reading and spelling development should take into account the characteristics of German orthography.
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Differences in neurocognitive aspects of dyslexia in Dutch and immigrant 6-7- and 8-9-years old children. SPRINGERPLUS 2015; 4:105. [PMID: 25789208 PMCID: PMC4356678 DOI: 10.1186/s40064-015-0874-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2014] [Accepted: 02/05/2015] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Detecting dyslexia in immigrant children can be jeopardized because of assessment bias, as a consequence of a limited word lexicon or differences in language development of these children. This is in contrast with the view of the universal neurocognitive basis for dyslexia. In this research, differences in screening children at risk for dyslexia with the Dyslexia Screening Test (DST) were studied in third and fifth graders of primary school of Dutch (mainstream) and immigrant descent. Mean group differences were found on a few subtests (Naming Letters, Semantic Fluency, Backward Digit Span and Verbal Fluency), probably as a consequence of bias because of the linguistic character of these subtests. The raw scores of word lexicon increased in the Dutch and immigrant group. The association of having a dyslexia diagnosis on DST scores was comparable for Dutch and immigrant children. Differences in the DST scores between non-dyslexic and dyslexic children were found between the third and fifth grade, with a stronger effect of having a dyslexia diagnosis in the fifth grade than the third grade, for Dutch as well as immigrant children. Screening of dyslexia seems easier in the fifth grade than in the third grade, dyslexic children show a slower reading development than their non-dyslexic peers, irrespective of their cultural background.
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Goswami U. Sensory theories of developmental dyslexia: three challenges for research. Nat Rev Neurosci 2014; 16:43-54. [PMID: 25370786 DOI: 10.1038/nrn3836] [Citation(s) in RCA: 236] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Pavlidou EV, Williams JM. Implicit learning and reading: insights from typical children and children with developmental dyslexia using the artificial grammar learning (AGL) paradigm. RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES 2014; 35:1457-1472. [PMID: 24751907 DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2014.03.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2013] [Revised: 03/17/2014] [Accepted: 03/18/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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We examined implicit learning in school-aged children with and without developmental dyslexia based on the proposal that implicit learning plays a significant role in mastering fluent reading. We ran two experiments with 16 typically developing children (9 to 11-years-old) and 16 age-matched children with developmental dyslexia using the artificial grammar learning (AGL) paradigm. In Experiment 1 (non-transfer task), children were trained on stimuli that followed patterns (rules) unknown to them. Subsequently, they were asked to decide from a novel set which stimuli follow the same rules (grammaticality judgments). In Experiment 2 (transfer task), training and testing stimuli differed in their superficial characteristics but followed the same rules. Again, children were asked to make grammaticality judgments. Our findings expand upon previous research by showing that children with developmental dyslexia show difficulties in implicit learning that are most likely specific to higher-order rule-like learning. These findings are discussed in relation to current theories of developmental dyslexia and of implicit learning.
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- Elpis V Pavlidou
- Haskins Laboratories, 300 George Street, Suit 900, New Haven 06511, CT, USA; Clinical Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 8AQ, UK.
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- Clinical Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 8AQ, UK.
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Schild U, Becker ABC, Friedrich CK. Processing of syllable stress is functionally different from phoneme processing and does not profit from literacy acquisition. Front Psychol 2014; 5:530. [PMID: 24917838 PMCID: PMC4042081 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2013] [Accepted: 05/13/2014] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Speech is characterized by phonemes and prosody. Neurocognitive evidence supports the separate processing of each type of information. Therefore, one might suggest individual development of both pathways. In this study, we examine literacy acquisition in middle childhood. Children become aware of the phonemes in speech at that time and refine phoneme processing when they acquire an alphabetic writing system. We test whether an enhanced sensitivity to phonemes in middle childhood extends to other aspects of the speech signal, such as prosody. To investigate prosodic processing, we used stress priming. Spoken stressed and unstressed syllables (primes) preceded spoken German words with stress on the first syllable (targets). We orthogonally varied stress overlap and phoneme overlap between the primes and onsets of the targets. Lexical decisions and Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) for the targets were obtained for pre-reading preschoolers, reading pupils and adults. The behavioral and ERP results were largely comparable across all groups. The fastest responses were observed when the first syllable of the target word shared stress and phonemes with the preceding prime. ERP stress priming and ERP phoneme priming started 200 ms after the target word onset. Bilateral ERP stress priming was characterized by enhanced ERP amplitudes for stress overlap. Left-lateralized ERP phoneme priming replicates previously observed reduced ERP amplitudes for phoneme overlap. Groups differed in the strength of the behavioral phoneme priming and in the late ERP phoneme priming effect. The present results show that enhanced phonological processing in middle childhood is restricted to phonemes and does not extend to prosody. These results are indicative of two parallel processing systems for phonemes and prosody that might follow different developmental trajectories in middle childhood as a function of alphabetic literacy.
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- Ulrike Schild
- Developmental Psychology, University of Tübingen Tübingen, Germany
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- Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Hamburg Hamburg, Germany
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Lallier M, Valdois S, Lassus-Sangosse D, Prado C, Kandel S. Impact of orthographic transparency on typical and atypical reading development: evidence in French-Spanish bilingual children. RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES 2014; 35:1177-1190. [PMID: 24559885 DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2014.01.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2013] [Revised: 01/17/2014] [Accepted: 01/23/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The present study aimed to quantify cross-linguistic modulations of the contribution of phonemic awareness skills and visual attention span (VA Span) skills (number of visual elements that can be processed simultaneously) to reading speed and accuracy in 18 Spanish-French balanced bilingual children with and without developmental dyslexia. The children were administered two similar reading batteries in French and Spanish. The deficits of the dyslexic children in reading accuracy were mainly visible in their opaque orthography (French) whereas difficulties indexed by reading speed were observed in both their opaque and transparent orthographies. Dyslexic children did not exhibit any phonemic awareness problems in French or in Spanish, but showed poor VA Span skills compared to their control peers. VA span skills correlated with reading accuracy and speed measures in both Spanish and French, whereas phonemic awareness correlated with reading accuracy only. Overall, the present results show that the VA Span is tightly related to reading speed regardless of orthographic transparency, and that it accounts for differences in reading performance between good and poor readers across languages. The present findings further suggest that VA Span skills may play a particularly important role in building-up specific word knowledge which is critical for lexical reading strategies.
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- Marie Lallier
- Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, San Sebastian, Spain.
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition, Grenoble, France; Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, France
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- Centre de Diagnostic des troubles du langage et des apprentissages, Département de pédiatrie CHU Nord, Grenoble, France
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- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition, Grenoble, France; GIPSA-Lab, CNRS UMR 5216, Grenoble, France; Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
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Holloway ID, van Atteveldt N, Blomert L, Ansari D. Orthographic dependency in the neural correlates of reading: evidence from audiovisual integration in English readers. Cereb Cortex 2013; 25:1544-53. [PMID: 24351976 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Reading skills are indispensible in modern technological societies. In transparent alphabetic orthographies, such as Dutch, reading skills build on associations between letters and speech sounds (LS pairs). Previously, we showed that the superior temporal cortex (STC) of Dutch readers is sensitive to the congruency of LS pairs. Here, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate whether a similar congruency sensitivity exists in STC of readers of the more opaque English orthography, where the relation among LS pairs is less reliable. Eighteen subjects passively perceived congruent and incongruent audiovisual pairs of different levels of transparency in English: letters and speech sounds (LS; irregular), letters and letter names (LN; fairly transparent), and numerals and number names (NN; transparent). In STC, we found congruency effects for NN and LN, but no effects in the predicted direction (congruent > incongruent) for LS pairs. These findings contrast with previous results obtained from Dutch readers. These data indicate that, through education, the STC becomes tuned to the congruency of transparent audiovisual pairs, but suggests a different neural processing of irregular mappings. The orthographic dependency of LS integration underscores cross-linguistic differences in the neural basis of reading and potentially has important implications for dyslexia interventions across languages.
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- Ian D Holloway
- Department of Psychology and Brain and Mind Institute, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychology and Brain and Mind Institute, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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Xue J, Shu H, Li H, Li W, Tian X. The stability of literacy-related cognitive contributions to Chinese character naming and reading fluency. JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH 2013; 42:433-450. [PMID: 22923217 DOI: 10.1007/s10936-012-9228-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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The present study examined the developmental issue of cognitive factors that explain Chinese literacy. Phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming, short-term memory, orthographic awareness and morphological awareness and two literacy tasks (character naming and reading fluency) were administered to 408 second-graders, 428 fourth-graders and 496 six-graders. Results from linear regression analysis and path analysis model showed that the five reading-related cognitive constructs explained unique variances in character naming. Second, character naming is primary for reading fluency after controlling other cognitive constructs; third, the relation between the cognitive factors and literacy changes significantly as a function of reading skills. Results give a clear direction to understanding Chinese reading development.
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- Jin Xue
- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China
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ESCOLEX: A grade-level lexical database from European Portuguese elementary to middle school textbooks. Behav Res Methods 2013; 46:240-53. [DOI: 10.3758/s13428-013-0350-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Reder F, Marec-Breton N, Gombert JE, Demont E. Second-language learners’ advantage in metalinguistic awareness: A question of languages’ characteristics. BRITISH JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY 2013; 83:686-702. [DOI: 10.1111/bjep.12003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2010] [Accepted: 09/18/2012] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Montant M, Schön D, Anton JL, Ziegler JC. Orthographic Contamination of Broca's Area. Front Psychol 2011; 2:378. [PMID: 22207859 PMCID: PMC3245630 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2011] [Accepted: 11/29/2011] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Strong evidence has accumulated over the past years suggesting that orthography plays a role in spoken language processing. It is still unclear, however, whether the influence of orthography on spoken language results from a co-activation of posterior brain areas dedicated to low-level orthographic processing or whether it results from orthographic restructuring of phonological representations located in the anterior perisylvian speech network itself. To test these hypotheses, we ran a fMRI study that tapped orthographic processing in the visual and auditory modalities. As a marker for orthographic processing, we used the orthographic decision task in the visual modality and the orthographic consistency effect in the auditory modality. Results showed no specific orthographic activation neither for the visual nor the auditory modality in left posterior occipito-temporal brain areas that are thought to host the visual word form system. In contrast, specific orthographic activation was found both for the visual and auditory modalities at anterior sites belonging to the perisylvian region: the left dorsal-anterior insula and the left inferior frontal gyrus. These results are in favor of the restructuring hypothesis according to which learning to read acts like a "virus" that permanently contaminates the spoken language system.
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- Marie Montant
- Laboratoire de Psychology Cognitive, CNRS, Aix-Marseille University Marseille, France
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Kast M, Baschera GM, Gross M, Jäncke L, Meyer M. Computer-based learning of spelling skills in children with and without dyslexia. ANNALS OF DYSLEXIA 2011; 61:177-200. [PMID: 21562919 DOI: 10.1007/s11881-011-0052-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2010] [Accepted: 02/08/2011] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Our spelling training software recodes words into multisensory representations comprising visual and auditory codes. These codes represent information about letters and syllables of a word. An enhanced version, developed for this study, contains an additional phonological code and an improved word selection controller relying on a phoneme-based student model. We investigated the spelling behavior of children by means of learning curves based on log-file data of the previous and the enhanced software version. First, we compared the learning progress of children with dyslexia working either with the previous software (n = 28) or the adapted version (n = 37). Second, we investigated the spelling behavior of children with dyslexia (n = 37) and matched children without dyslexia (n = 25). To gain deeper insight into which factors are relevant for acquiring spelling skills, we analyzed the influence of cognitive abilities, such as attention functions and verbal memory skills, on the learning behavior. All investigations of the learning process are based on learning curve analyses of the collected log-file data. The results evidenced that those children with dyslexia benefit significantly from the additional phonological cue and the corresponding phoneme-based student model. Actually, children with dyslexia improve their spelling skills to the same extent as children without dyslexia and were able to memorize phoneme to grapheme correspondence when given the correct support and adequate training. In addition, children with low attention functions benefit from the structured learning environment. Generally, our data showed that memory sources are supportive cognitive functions for acquiring spelling skills and for using the information cues of a multi-modal learning environment.
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- Monika Kast
- Department of Neuropsychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
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Perre L, Bertrand D, Ziegler JC. Literacy Affects Spoken Language in a Non-Linguistic Task: An ERP Study. Front Psychol 2011. [PMID: 22025917 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00274).] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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It is now commonly accepted that orthographic information influences spoken word recognition in a variety of laboratory tasks (lexical decision, semantic categorization, gender decision). However, it remains a hotly debated issue whether or not orthography would influence normal word perception in passive listening. That is, the argument has been made that orthography might only be activated in laboratory tasks that require lexical or semantic access in some form or another. It is possible that these rather "unnatural" tasks invite participants to use orthographic information in a strategic way to improve task performance. To put the strategy account to rest, we conducted an event-related brain potential (ERP) study, in which participants were asked to detect a 500-ms-long noise burst that appeared on 25% of the trials (Go trials). In the NoGo trials, we presented spoken words that were orthographically consistent or inconsistent. Thus, lexical and/or semantic processing was not required in this task and there was no strategic benefit in computing orthography to perform this task. Nevertheless, despite the non-linguistic nature of the task, we replicated the consistency effect that has been previously reported in lexical decision and semantic tasks (i.e., inconsistent words produce more negative ERPs than consistent words as early as 300 ms after the onset of the spoken word). These results clearly suggest that orthography automatically influences word perception in normal listening even if there is no strategic benefit to do so. The results are explained in terms of orthographic restructuring of phonological representations.
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- Laetitia Perre
- Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, Université Lille Nord de France Lille, France
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Perre L, Bertrand D, Ziegler JC. Literacy Affects Spoken Language in a Non-Linguistic Task: An ERP Study. Front Psychol 2011; 2:274. [PMID: 22025917 PMCID: PMC3198050 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2011] [Accepted: 10/01/2011] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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It is now commonly accepted that orthographic information influences spoken word recognition in a variety of laboratory tasks (lexical decision, semantic categorization, gender decision). However, it remains a hotly debated issue whether or not orthography would influence normal word perception in passive listening. That is, the argument has been made that orthography might only be activated in laboratory tasks that require lexical or semantic access in some form or another. It is possible that these rather "unnatural" tasks invite participants to use orthographic information in a strategic way to improve task performance. To put the strategy account to rest, we conducted an event-related brain potential (ERP) study, in which participants were asked to detect a 500-ms-long noise burst that appeared on 25% of the trials (Go trials). In the NoGo trials, we presented spoken words that were orthographically consistent or inconsistent. Thus, lexical and/or semantic processing was not required in this task and there was no strategic benefit in computing orthography to perform this task. Nevertheless, despite the non-linguistic nature of the task, we replicated the consistency effect that has been previously reported in lexical decision and semantic tasks (i.e., inconsistent words produce more negative ERPs than consistent words as early as 300 ms after the onset of the spoken word). These results clearly suggest that orthography automatically influences word perception in normal listening even if there is no strategic benefit to do so. The results are explained in terms of orthographic restructuring of phonological representations.
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- Laetitia Perre
- Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, Université Lille Nord de FranceLille, France
- Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, UDL3, URECAVilleneuve d’Ascq, France
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- Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, Aix-Marseille UniversityMarseille, France
- Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueMarseille, France
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- Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, Aix-Marseille UniversityMarseille, France
- Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueMarseille, France
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Jamal NI, Piche AW, Napoliello EM, Perfetti CA, Eden GF. Neural basis of single-word reading in Spanish-English bilinguals. Hum Brain Mapp 2011; 33:235-45. [PMID: 21391265 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2010] [Revised: 08/24/2010] [Accepted: 10/20/2010] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Brain imaging studies have identified a left-lateralized network of regions that are engaged when monolinguals read. However, for individuals who are native speakers of two languages, it is unclear whether this pattern of activity is maintained across both languages or if it deviates according to language-specific properties. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate single-word processing in Spanish and in English in 12 proficient early Spanish-English bilinguals matched in skill level in both languages. Word processing in Spanish engaged the left inferior frontal and left middle temporal gyri. Word processing in English activated the left inferior frontal, middle frontal, and fusiform gyri extending to inferior temporal gyrus and the right middle temporal gyrus extending into superior temporal sulcus. The comparison of reading in Spanish greater than reading in English revealed involvement of the left middle temporal gyrus extending into the superior temporal sulcus. English greater than Spanish, however, demonstrated greater engagement of the left middle frontal gyrus extending into the superior frontal gyrus. We conclude that although word processing in either language activates classical areas associated with reading, there are language-specific differences, which can be attributed to the disparity in orthographic transparency. English, an orthographically deep language, may require greater engagement of the frontal regions for phonological coding, whereas Spanish allows increased access to semantic processing via the left middle temporal areas. Together, these results suggest that bilinguals will show adjustments to the typical neural representation of reading as necessitated by the demands of the orthography.
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- Nasheed I Jamal
- Center for the Study of Learning and Center for the Study of Visual Language and Visual Learning, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia 20057, USA
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Phonological Awareness and Rapid Automatized Naming Predicting Early Development in Reading and Spelling: Results from a Cross-Linguistic Longitudinal Study. LEARNING AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES 2011; 21:85-95. [PMID: 21359098 DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2010.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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In this study, the relationship between latent constructs of phonological awareness (PA) and rapid automatized naming (RAN) were investigated and related to later measures of reading and spelling in children learning to read in different alphabetic writing systems (i.e., Norwegian/Swedish vs. English). 750 U.S./Australian children and 230 Scandinavian children were followed longitudinally between kindergarten and 2nd grade. PA and RAN were measured in kindergarten and Grade 1, while word recognition, phonological decoding, and spelling were measured in kindergarten, Grade 1, and Grade 2. In general, high stability was observed for the various reading and spelling measures, such that little additional variance was left open for PA and RAN. However, results demonstrated that RAN was more related to reading than spelling across orthographies, with the opposite pattern shown for PA. In addition, tests of measurement invariance show that the factor loadings of each observed indicator on the latent PA factor was the same across U.S./Australia and Scandinavia. Similar findings were obtained for RAN. In general, tests of structural invariance show that models of early literacy development are highly transferable across languages.
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Lange-Küttner C, Krappmann L. Ein modalitätsspezifisches Wortgedächtnis ist ausreichend: Wortgedächtnismodalität bei Leseanfängern und Neuronalen Netzen 1Dieser Beitrag wurde unter der geschäftsführenden Herausgeberschaft von Jens Möller angenommen. ZEITSCHRIFT FUR PADAGOGISCHE PSYCHOLOGIE 2011. [DOI: 10.1024/1010-0652/a000027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Zusammenfassung. Wortstruktureffekte besagen, dass bekannte Buchstabenfolgen von vertrauten Worten einfacher zu erinnern und leichter zu lesen sind, als weniger bekannte oder neue Buchstabenfolgen von seltener auftretenden Worten. Es ist daher einleuchtend, dass eine quantitative Zunahme an neuer Wortstruktur den Leseschwierigkeitsgrad vorhersagt. Z. B. sind Zahlworte leichter zu lesen als Reimworte mit neuem Wortanfang, und Reimworte sind wiederum leichter zu lesen als Nicht-Worte mit neuer Buchstabenfolge. Deutsche Leseanfänger zeigten jedoch nicht diesen häufig zu beobachtenden Wortstruktureffekt beim Lesen ( Lange-Küttner, 2005 ). Hängt dies möglicherweise damit zusammen, dass sie eine Prävalenz des auditorischen Gedächtnisses beim Lesen haben ( Gathercole & Baddeley, 1993 )? Es wurde daher bei englischsprachigen und deutschen Kindern der Zusammenhang des Lesens mit dem Wortstruktureffekt im auditiven vs. visuellen Wortgedächtnis analysiert. Während der Wortstruktureffekt im visuellen Gedächtnis bei allen Kindern vorhanden war, zeigte er sich im auditiven Gedächtnis nur bei den früh eingeschulten britischen Kindern. Lesen war mit dem visuellen Wortgedächtnis bei den englischsprachigen Kindern korreliert, jedoch mit dem auditiven Wortgedächtnis bei den deutschen Kindern. Auch neuronale Netze brauchten nur ein Arbeitsgedächtnis. Mögliche Auswirkungen der Selektivität des Arbeitsgedächtnisses auf das Lesen, sowie Folgen von unimodaler und bimodaler Wortrepräsentation bei Kindern und in neuronalen Netzen werden erörtert.
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Learning to read shapes the activation of neural lexical representations in the speech recognition pathway. Dev Cogn Neurosci 2010; 1:163-74. [PMID: 22436438 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2010.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2010] [Revised: 10/26/2010] [Accepted: 11/09/2010] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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It has been demonstrated that written and spoken language processing are tightly linked. Here we focus on the development of this relationship at the time children start reading and writing. We hypothesize that the newly acquired knowledge about graphemes shapes lexical access in neural spoken word recognition. A group of preliterate children (six years old) and two groups of beginning readers (six and eight years old) were tested in a spoken word identification task. Using word onset priming we compared behavioural and neural facilitation for target words in identical prime-target pairs (e.g., mon-monster) and in prime target pairs that varied in the first speech sound (e.g., non-monster, Variation condition). In both groups of beginning readers priming was less effective in the Variation condition than in the Identity condition. This was indexed by less behavioural facilitation and enhanced P350 amplitudes in the event related potentials (ERPs). In the group of preliterate children, by contrast, both conditions did not differ. Together these results reveal that lexical access in beginning readers is based on more acoustic detail than lexical access in preliterate children. The results are discussed in the light of bidirectional speech and print interactions in readers.
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Phonological awareness in kindergarten: a field study in Luxembourgish schools. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY OF EDUCATION 2010. [DOI: 10.1007/s10212-010-0039-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Behavioral studies have demonstrated that learning to read and write affects the processing of spoken language. The present study investigates the neural mechanism underlying the emergence of such orthographic effects during speech processing. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was used to tease apart two competing hypotheses that consider this orthographic influence to be either a consequence of a change in the nature of the phonological representations during literacy acquisition or a consequence of online coactivation of the orthographic and phonological representations during speech processing. Participants performed an auditory lexical decision task in which the orthographic consistency of spoken words was manipulated and repetitive TMS was used to interfere with either phonological or orthographic processing by stimulating left supramarginal gyrus (SMG) or left ventral occipitotemporal cortex (vOTC), respectively. The advantage for consistently spelled words was removed only when the stimulation was delivered to SMG and not to vOTC, providing strong evidence that this effect arises at a phonological, rather than an orthographic, level. We propose a possible mechanistic explanation for the role of SMG in phonological processing and how this is affected by learning to read.
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Besse AS, Marec-Breton N, Demont É. Développement métalinguistique et apprentissage de la lecture chez les enfants bilingues. ENFANCE 2010. [DOI: 10.3917/enf1.102.0167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Furnes B, Samuelsson S. Predicting reading and spelling difficulties in transparent and opaque orthographies: a comparison between Scandinavian and US/Australian children. DYSLEXIA (CHICHESTER, ENGLAND) 2010; 16:119-42. [PMID: 20440743 PMCID: PMC2908032 DOI: 10.1002/dys.401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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In this study, predictors of reading and spelling difficulties among children learning more transparent (Norwegian/Swedish) and less transparent (English) orthographies were examined longitudinally from preschool through Grade 2 using parallel versions of tests. A series of logistic regression analysis indicated three main findings. First, phonological awareness as a predictor of reading difficulties in the Scandinavian sample was time-limited to Grade 1, but remained as a significant predictor in the English-speaking sample. Second, phonological awareness predicted spelling difficulties similarly across orthographies. Third, preschool and kindergarten RAN was a significant predictor of reading and spelling difficulties at both Grades 1 and 2 across orthographies. The authors conclude that phonological awareness diminishes as a predictor of reading difficulties in transparent orthographies after the first years of schooling, that RAN is a better long-term predictor of reading difficulties, and that phonological awareness is associated with spelling difficulties similarly in transparent and opaque orthographies.
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- Bjarte Furnes
- National Centre for Reading Education and Research, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway.
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Ziegler JC, Bertrand D, Tóth D, Csépe V, Reis A, Faísca L, Saine N, Lyytinen H, Vaessen A, Blomert L. Orthographic Depth and Its Impact on Universal Predictors of Reading. Psychol Sci 2010; 21:551-9. [PMID: 20424101 DOI: 10.1177/0956797610363406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 299] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Alphabetic orthographies differ in the transparency of their letter-sound mappings, with English orthography being less transparent than other alphabetic scripts. The outlier status of English has led scientists to question the generality of findings based on English-language studies. We investigated the role of phonological awareness, memory, vocabulary, rapid naming, and nonverbal intelligence in reading performance across five languages lying at differing positions along a transparency continuum (Finnish, Hungarian, Dutch, Portuguese, and French). Results from a sample of 1,265 children in Grade 2 showed that phonological awareness was the main factor associated with reading performance in each language. However, its impact was modulated by the transparency of the orthography, being stronger in less transparent orthographies. The influence of rapid naming was rather weak and limited to reading and decoding speed. Most predictors of reading performance were relatively universal across these alphabetic languages, although their precise weight varied systematically as a function of script transparency.
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- Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, CNRS and Aix-Marseille Université
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- Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, Departamento de Psicologia, Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Universidade do Algarve
- Cognitive Neurophysiology Research Group, Stockholm Brain Institute, Karolinska Institutet
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, Departamento de Psicologia, Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Universidade do Algarve
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- Agora Research Center and Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä
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- Agora Research Center and Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University
- Maastricht Brain Imaging Institute (M-BIC), Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University
- Maastricht Brain Imaging Institute (M-BIC), Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Pattamadilok C, Lafontaine H, Morais J, Kolinsky R. Auditory word serial recall benefits from orthographic dissimilarity. LANGUAGE AND SPEECH 2010; 53:321-341. [PMID: 21033650 DOI: 10.1177/0023830910371450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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The influence of orthographic knowledge has been consistently observed in dissimilarity speech recognition and metaphonological tasks. The present study provides data suggesting that such influence also pervades other cognitive domains phonological related to language abilities, such as verbal working memory. Using serial similarity effect recall of auditory seven-word lists, we observed that inter-item orthographic dissimilarity assists verbal working memory by reducing or even avoiding verbal serial recall the detrimental effect of phonological similarity. However, this orthographic modulation of the phonological similarity effect only occurred at positions four to six of the word list. Performance at position seven benefited from a recency effect that may be assumed to result from a more surface-level (acoustic-phonetic) representation, while better performance at positions one to three is attributable to primacy effects, and can be accounted for in terms of consolidation through recapitulation. The beneficial influence of orthographic knowledge may, therefore, only be apparent when the item stored in short-term memory takes the form of an abstract but unconsolidated phonological representation.
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- Chotiga Pattamadilok
- Unité de Recherche en Neurosciences Cognitives, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
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Simon E, Van Herreweghe M. The relation between orthography and phonology from different angles: insights from psycholinguistics and second language acquisition. LANGUAGE AND SPEECH 2010; 53:303-306. [PMID: 21033648 DOI: 10.1177/0023830910372486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Papadopoulos TC, Georgiou GK, Kendeou P. Investigating the double-deficit hypothesis in Greek: findings from a longitudinal study. JOURNAL OF LEARNING DISABILITIES 2009; 42:528-547. [PMID: 19723979 DOI: 10.1177/0022219409338745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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This study examined longitudinally the double-deficit hypothesis in Greek, an orthographically consistent language, following a group of children from kindergarten to Grade 2. Four groups were formed on the basis of two composite scores of phonological and naming-speed criterion measures: a double-deficit group (DD; n = 17), a phonological deficit group (PD; n = 33), a naming deficit group (ND; n = 33), and a control group exhibiting no deficits (CnD; n = 159). The four groups were identified in Grade 1, and they were compared retrospectively in kindergarten only on the criterion measures, and in Grades 1 and 2 on measures of word-reading fluency and accuracy, orthographic processing, and passage comprehension. The effects of verbal and nonverbal ability, age, gender, and parental education were controlled among the groups. Results showed that the DD group exhibited greater dysfunction in reading and orthographic processing compared to the single-deficit and CnD groups. Also, although the three deficit groups were not easily differentiated in kindergarten, their differences were maximized in Grade 1 and retained in Grade 2. The type and severity of reading deficits found in the ND group were mostly associated with naming speed at both the word- and text-reading levels, deficits that persisted across development. The PD group showed mostly deficient orthographic and poor decoding skills that improved across development. Implications of the findings for the double-deficit hypothesis in languages with transparent orthographies are discussed.
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Metz D, Petermann F. Kindergartenbasierte Förderung der phonologischen Bewusstheit „Lobo vom Globo“. KINDHEIT UND ENTWICKLUNG 2009. [DOI: 10.1026/0942-5403.18.4.204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Das kindergartenbasierte Training „Lobo vom Globo“ zur Förderung der phonologischen Bewusstheit wird dargestellt. Es werden Kinder vor Schuleintritt gefördert, wobei sich die Maßnahme über einen Zeitraum von zwölf Wochen erstreckt. Die Bedeutung der phonologischen Bewusstheit für den Lese- und Schriftspracherwerb ist bereits umfangreich dokumentiert. Untersucht wird, ob und inwiefern Kinder von dem Training der phonologischen Bewusstheit profitieren. An der Studie nahmen insgesamt 191 Kinder teil, bei denen sowohl unmittelbar vor Beginn und nach Abschluss des Trainings die Fähigkeiten zur phonologischen Bewusstheit überprüft wurden (Interventionsgruppe: n = 94). Kinder der Fördergruppe erzielten nach Abschluss des Trainings in allen Untertests signifikant bessere Leistungen als Kinder der Kontrollgruppe.
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