Does the reading of different orthographies produce distinct brain activity patterns? An ERP study.

ABSTRACT: Orthographies vary in the degree of transparency of spelling-sound correspondence. These range from shallow orthographies with transparent grapheme-phoneme relations, to deep orthographies, in which these relations are opaque. Only a few studies have examined whether orthographic depth is reflected in brain activity. In these studies a between-language design was applied, making it difficult to isolate the aspect of orthographic depth. In the present work this question was examined using a within-subject-and-language investigation. The participants were speakers of Hebrew, as they are skilled in reading two forms of script transcribing the same oral language. One form is the shallow pointed script (with diacritics), and the other is the deep unpointed script (without diacritics). Event-rel

SUBMITTER: Bar-Kochva I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3352908 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature