Neural timing of visual implicit categorization

Pernet, Cyril; Basan, Sébastien; Doyon, Bernard; Cardebat, Dominique; Démonet, Jean‐François; Celsis, Pierre

doi:10.1016/s0926-6410(03)00134-4

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“…This suggests that unfamiliar logographic writings might elicit an N1 response comparable to or even stronger than that elicited by familiar logographic writings. Consistently, a previous ERP study revealed a stronger N1 for Asiatic characters than for letters even for subjects who had no experience with Asiatic characters (Pernet et al, 2003). Stronger fusiform activation has also been found for Chinese than for English stimuli even when the subjects were English speakers and had only limited exposure to the Chinese language (Liu et al, 2007).…”

Section: N1 Response Is Modulated By Writing System and Visual Complesupporting

confidence: 85%

“…So far, researchers have compared native words/letters with false fonts (Eulitz et al, 2000;Schendan et al, 1998;Wong et al, 2005), symbols Brem et al, 2005;Gros et al, 2002;Maurer et al, 2005b;McCandliss et al, 1997; Moscoso del Prado Martin et al, 2006;Tarkiainen et al, 2002Tarkiainen et al, , 1999, foreign writings (Huang et al, 2004;Pernet et al, 2003;Wong et al, 2005), letter strings (Bentin et al, 1999;Cohen et al, 2000;Martin et al, 2006;Proverbio et al, 2004), pseudowords (Proverbio et al, 2004;Shirahama et al, 2004;Wydell et al, 2003), and second-language words/letters (Liu and Perfetti, 2003;Wong et al, 2005). Furthermore, there was a study that compared native and foreign speakers on the same stimuli (Proverbio et al, 2006).…”

Section: N1 and Visual Word Form Processingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Language experience shapes early electrophysiological responses to visual stimuli: The effects of writing system, stimulus length, and presentation duration

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How language experience affects visual word recognition has been a topic of intense interest. Using event-related potentials (ERPs), the present study compared the early electrophysiological responses (i.e., N1) to familiar and unfamiliar writings under different conditions. Thirteen native Chinese speakers (with English as their second language) were recruited to passively view four types of scripts: Chinese (familiar logographic writings), English (familiar alphabetic writings), Korean Hangul (unfamiliar logographic writings), and Tibetan (unfamiliar alphabetic writings). Stimuli also differed in lexicality (words vs. nonwords, for familiar writings only), length (characters/letters vs. words), and presentation duration (100 ms vs. 750 ms). We found no significant differences between words and non-words, and the effect of language experience (familiar vs. unfamiliar) was significantly modulated by stimulus length and writing system, and to a less degree, by presentation duration. That is, the language experience effect (i.e., a stronger N1 response to familiar writings than to unfamiliar writings) was significant only for alphabetic letters, but not for alphabetic and logographic words. The difference between Chinese characters and unfamiliar logographic characters was significant under the condition of short presentation duration, but not under the condition of long presentation duration. Long stimuli elicited a stronger N1 response than did short stimuli, but this effect was significantly attenuated for familiar writings. These results suggest that N1 response might not reliably differentiate familiar and unfamiliar writings. More importantly, our results suggest that N1 is modulated by visual, linguistic, and task factors, which has important implications for the visual expertise hypothesis.

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Section: N1 Response Is Modulated By Writing System and Visual Complesupporting

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Language experience shapes early electrophysiological responses to visual stimuli: The effects of writing system, stimulus length, and presentation duration

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“…As was found, the amplitude of the visual Р2 increases with increase in the stimulus complexity [69]. It was also mentioned that the amplitude of the Р2 wave noticeably depends on the activity of the nonspecific cerebral systems (in particular, on the functional state of the RF).…”

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Emotional Significance of the Stimulus and Features of the Personality as Factors Reflected in the Pattern of Evoked EEG Potentials

Коваленко

Павленко

2009

Neurophysiology

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This review generalizes the data of modern studies of individual peculiarities of the spatial/temporal and amplitude characteristics of evoked EEG potentials (EPs) in humans. A brief description of EPs, characteristics of their components, sources of generation, and functional correlates is presented. Possible effects of the emotional significance of the stimulus and of individual peculiarities of the personality on the amplitude/temporal characteristics of EPs are considered. It is supposed that the aminergic cerebral systems play a crucial role in the formation of peculiarities of emotional responses, expression of the definite EP components, and biologically determined features of the human personality.

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“…Similarly for the Dutch participants, though individual pinyin graphemes can be read in analogy to Latin alphabets, the long strings pose a challenge for recognition. Because the N170 printtuning effect is specific to strings of letters and is typically not evoked by individual letters (Maurer et al, 2005b;Pernet et al, 2003), the lack of visual familiarity for pinyin strings may account for the absence of left-lateralized N170 responses for pinyin in both Chinese and Dutch participants.…”

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N170 Tuning in Chinese: Logographic Characters and Phonetic Pinyin Script

Qin

Maurits

Maassen

2016

Scientific Studies of Reading

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In alphabetic languages, print consistently elicits enhanced, left-lateralized N170 responses in the event-related potential compared to control stimuli. In the current study, we adopted a cross-linguistic design to investigate N170 tuning to logographic Chinese and to pinyin, an auxiliary phonetic system in Chinese. The results demonstrated that logographic characters elicit a left-lateralized print-tuning effect in Chinese readers only. Crucially, the observed tuning effect is clearly driven by script familiarity, rather than by differences in visual features between print and control stimuli. This can be concluded because Dutch participants who viewed the same set of stimuli showed a bilateral topography instead. For pinyin, the left-hemispheric modulation was absent in both language groups, presumably because long strings of pinyin are unfamiliar to both groups. Because grapheme-to-phoneme conversion does not exist in logographic Chinese, our results tend to suggest a visual familiarity rather than a grapheme-tophoneme mapping account of the print N170.

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Neural timing of visual implicit categorization

Cited by 49 publications

References 43 publications

Language experience shapes early electrophysiological responses to visual stimuli: The effects of writing system, stimulus length, and presentation duration

Language experience shapes early electrophysiological responses to visual stimuli: The effects of writing system, stimulus length, and presentation duration

Emotional Significance of the Stimulus and Features of the Personality as Factors Reflected in the Pattern of Evoked EEG Potentials

N170 Tuning in Chinese: Logographic Characters and Phonetic Pinyin Script

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