Investigating lexical categorization in reading based on joint diagnostic and training approaches for language learners.

ABSTRACT: Efficient reading is essential for societal participation, so reading proficiency is a central educational goal. Here, we use an individualized diagnostics and training framework to investigate processes in visual word recognition and evaluate its usefulness for detecting training responders. We (i) motivated a training procedure based on the Lexical Categorization Model (LCM) to introduce the framework. The LCM describes pre-lexical orthographic processing implemented in the left-ventral occipital cortex and is vital to reading. German language learners trained their lexical categorization abilities while we monitored reading speed change. In three studies, most language learners increased their reading skills. Next, we (ii) estimated, for each word, the LCM-based features and assessed ea

SUBMITTER: Gagl B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11006909 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature