Neuroimaging reveals dual routes to reading in simultaneous proficient readers of two orthographies.

ABSTRACT: Orthographic differences across languages impose differential weighting on distinct component processes, and consequently on different pathways during word-reading tasks. Readers of transparent orthographies such as Italian and Hindi are thought to rely on spelling-to-sound assembly and show increased activation in phonologically tuned areas along the dorsal pathway, whereas reading an opaque orthography such as English is thought to rely more on lexically mediated processing associated with increased activation of semantically tuned regions along the ventral pathway. To test if biliterate Hindi/English readers exhibit orthography-specific reading pathways, we used behavioural measures and functional neuroimaging. Reaction times and activation patterns of monolingual English and Hindi read

SUBMITTER: Das T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3654519 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature