Novel Word Learning: Event-Related Brain Potentials Reflect Pure Lexical and Task-Related Effects.

ABSTRACT: Previous research has pointed out that the combination of orthographic and semantic-associative training is a more advantageous strategy for the lexicalization of novel written word-forms than their single orthographic training. However, paradigms used previously involve explicit stimuli categorization (lexical decision), which likely influence word learning. In the present study, we used a more automatic task (silent reading) to determine the advantage of the associative training, by comparing the brain electrical signals elicited in combined (orthographic and semantic) and single (only orthographic) training conditions. In addition, the learning effect (in terms of similar neurophysiological activity between novel and known words) was also tested under a categorization paradigm, enabling

SUBMITTER: Bermudez-Margaretto B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6803495 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature