Neural systems for reading aloud: a multiparametric approach.

ABSTRACT: Reading aloud involves computing the sound of a word from its visual form. This may be accomplished 1) by direct associations between spellings and phonology and 2) by computation from orthography to meaning to phonology. These components have been studied in behavioral experiments examining lexical properties such as word frequency; length in letters or phonemes; spelling-sound consistency; semantic factors such as imageability, measures of orthographic, or phonological complexity; and others. Effects of these lexical properties on specific neural systems, however, are poorly understood, partially because high intercorrelations among lexical factors make it difficult to determine if they have independent effects. We addressed this problem by decorrelating several important lexical propert

SUBMITTER: Graves WW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2901017 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature