Effects of lexicality, frequency, and spelling-to-sound consistency on the functional anatomy of reading
Effects of lexicality, frequency, and spelling-to-sound consistency on the functional anatomy of reading
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DOI:
10.1016/s0896-6273(00)80833-8
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发表时间:
1999-09-01
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影响因子:
16.2
通讯作者:
Petersen, SE
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作者:
Fiez, JA;Balota, DA;Petersen, SE
Functional neuroimaging was used to investigate three factors that affect reading performance: first, whether a stimulus is a word or pronounceable nonword (lexicality), second, how often a word is encountered (frequency), and third, whether the pronunciation has a predictable spelling-to-sound correspondence (consistency). Comparisons between word naming (reading) and visual fixation scans revealed stimulus-related activation differences in seven regions. A left frontal region showed effects of consistency and lexicality, indicating a role in orthographic to phonological transformation. Motor cortex showed an effect of consistency bilaterally, suggesting that motoric processes beyond high-level representations of word phonology influence reading performance. Implications for the integration of these results into theoretical models of word reading are discussed.