On the representation of words and nonwords in visual short-term memory: Evidence from human electrophysiology

Psychophysiology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 191-199

  Predovan, David ^a,b   Prime, David ^a,b   Arguin, Martin ^a,b   Gosselin, Frédéric ^a,b   Dell'Acqua, Roberto ^c   Jolicœur, Pierre ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN NEUROPSYCHOLOGIE ET COGNITION   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electroencephalography; Event related potentials (ERPs); Lexical status; Reading; Sustained posterior contralateral negativity (SPCN); Visual short term memory (VSTM)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149129067     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2008.00753.x     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Brisson, B. Jolicœur, B. (2007). A psychological refractory period in access to visual short-term memory and the deployment of visual-spatial attention: Multitasking processing deficits revealed by event-related potentials. Psychophysiology, 44, 323 333.
2. Cattell, J. M. (1886). The time it takes to see and name objects. Mind, 11, 63 65.
3. Cohen, L., Dehaene, S., Naccache, L., Lehéricy, S., Dehaene-Lambertz, G., Hénaff, M. A., et al 2000). The visual word form area: Spatial and temporal characterization of an initial stage of reading in normal subjects and posterior split-brain patients. Brain, 123, 291 307.
4. Coltheart, M. (1980). Iconic memory and visible persistence. Perception & Psychophysics, 27, 183 228.
5. Cowan, N. (1996). Short-term memory, working memory, and their importance in language processing. Topics in Language Disorder, 17, 1 18.
6. Dell'Acqua, R., Pesciarelli, F., Jolicœur, P., Eimer, M. Peressotti, F. (2007). The interdependence of spatial attention and lexical access as revealed by early asymmetries in occipito-parietal ERP activity. Psychophysiology, 44, 436 443.
7. Dell'Acqua, R., Sessa, P., Jolicœur, P. Robitaille, N. (2006). Spatial attention freezes during the attentional blink. Psychophysiology, 43, 394 400.
8. Dufau, S., Grainger, J. Holcomb, P. J. (2008). An ERP investigation of location invariance in masked repetition priming. Cognitive Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 5, 222 228.
9. Grainger, J., Granier, J. P., Farioli, F., Van Assche, E. van Heuven, W. (2006). Letter position information and printed word perception: The relative-position priming constraint. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 32, 865 884.
10. Hauk, O., Davis, M. H., Ford, M., Pulvermüller, F. Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2006). The time course of visual word-recognition as revealed by linear regression analysis of ERP data. NeuroImage, 30, 1383 1400.
11. Heil, M., Rolke, R. Pecchinenda, A. (2004). Automatic semantic activation is no myth. Psychological Science, 15, 852 857.
12. Hinojosa, J. A., Martín-Loeches, M., Muñoz, F., Casado, P. Pozo, M. A. (2004). Electrophysiological evidence of automatic early semantic processing. Brain and Language, 88, 39 46.
13. Holcomb, P. J. (1993). Semantic priming and stimulus degradation: Implications for the role of N400 in language processing. Psychophysiology, 30, 47 61.
14. Holcomb, P. J. Grainger, J. (2006). On the time-course of visual word recognition: An ERP investigation using masked repetition priming. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 1631 1643.
15. Holcomb, P. J. Grainger, J. (2007). Exploring the temporal dynamics of visual word recognition in the masked repetition priming paradigm using event-related potentials. Brain Research, 1180, 39 58.
16. Jack, A. I., Patel, G. H., Astafiev, S. V., Snyder, A. Z., Akbudak, E., Shulman, G. L., et al 2007). Changing human visual field organization from early visual to extra-occipital cortex. PLoS ONE, 5, e452.
17. Jolicœur, P., Brisson, B. Robitaille, N. (2008). Dissociation of the N2pc and sustained posterior contralateral negativity in a choice response task. Brain Research, 1215, 160 172.
18. Jolicœur, P., Sessa, P., Dell'Acqua, R. Robitaille, N. (2006a). Attentional control and capture in the attentional blink paradigm: Evidence from human electrophysiology. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 18, 560 578.
19. Jolicœur, P., Sessa, P., Dell'Acqua, R. Robitaille, N. (2006b). On the control of visual spatial attention: Evidence from human electrophysiology. Psychological Research, 70, 414 424.
20. Kiesel, A., Miller, J., Jolicœur, P. Brisson, B. (2008). Measurement of ERP latency differences: A comparison of single-participant and jackknife-based scoring methods. Psychophysiology, 45, 250 274.
21. Klaver, P., Talsma, D., Wijers, A. A., Heinze, H.-J. Mulder, G. (1999). An event-related brain potential correlate of visual short-term memory. NeuroReport, 10, 2001 2005.
22. Kutas, M. Hillyard, S. A. (1980). Reading senseless sentences: Brain potentials reflect semantic incongruity. Science, 207, 203 205.
23. Mado Proverbio, A., Vecchi, L. Zani, A. (2004). From orthography to phonetics: ERP measures of grapheme-to-phoneme conversion mechanisms in reading. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 301 317.
24. Martin, C. D., Nazir, T., Thierry, G., Paulignan, Y. Demonet, J.-F. (2006). Perceptual and lexical effects in letter identification: An event-related potential study of the word superiority effect. Brain Research, 1098, 153 160.
25. Martín-Loeches, M., Hinojosa, J. A., Fernández- Frías, C. Rubia, F. J. (2001). Functional differences in the semantic processing of concrete and abstract words. Neuropsychologia, 39, 1086 1096.
26. Martín-Loeches, M., Hinojosa, J. A., Gómez-Jarabo, G. Rubia, F. J. (1999). The recognition potential: An ERP index of lexical access. Brain and Language, 70, 364 384.
27. McClelland, J. L. Rumelhart, D. E. (1981). An interactive activation model of context effects in letter perception: Part I. An account of basic findings. Psychological Review, 88, 375 407.
28. McCollough, A. W., Machizawa, M. G. Vogel, E. K. (2007). Electrophysiological measures of maintaining representations in visual working memory. Cortex, 43, 77 94.
29. Morsella, E. Miozzo, M. (2002). Evidence for a cascade model of lexical access in speech production. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 28, 555 563.
30. Nobre, A. C., Allison, T. McCarthy, G. (1994). Word recognition in the human inferior temporal lobe. Nature, 372, 260 263.
31. Pesciarelli, F., Kutas, M., Dell'Acqua, R., Peressotti, F., Job, R., et al 2007). Semantic and repetition priming within the attentional blink: An event-related brain potential (ERP) investigation. Biological Psychology, 76, 21 30.
32. Puce, A., Allison, T., Asgari, M., Gore, J. C. McCarthy, G. (1996). Differential sensitivity of human visual cortex to faces, letterstrings, and textures: A functional magnetic resonance study. Journal of Neuroscience, 16, 5205 5215.
33. Pulvermüller, F. (2001). Brain reflections of words and their meaning. Trends in Cognitive Science, 5, 517 524.
34. Pulvermüller, F., Assadollahi, R. Elbert, T. (2001). Neuromagnetic evidence for early semantic access in word recognition. European Journal of Neuroscience, 13, 201 205.
35. Pulvermüller, F., Shtyrov, Y. Ilmoniemi, R. (2005). Brain signatures of meaning access in action word recognition. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 884 892.
36. Reingold, E. M. Jolicœur, P. (1993). Perceptual versus postperceptual mediation of visual context effects: Evidence from the letter-superiority effect. Perception & Psychophysics, 53, 166 178.
37. Robitaille, N., Jolicœur, P., Dell'Acqua, R. Sessa, P. (2007). Short-term consolidation of visual patterns interferes with visuo-spatial attention: Converging evidence from human electrophysiology. Brain Research, 1185, 158 169.
38. Rolke, B., Heil, M., Streb, J. Hennighausen, E. (2001). Missed prime words within the attentional blink evoke an N400 semantic priming effect. Psychophysiology, 38, 165 174.
39. Rudell, A. P. Hua, J. (1997). The recognition potential, word difficulty, and individual reading ability: On using event-related potentials to study perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 23, 1170 1195.
40. Sereno, S. C., Rayner, K. Posner, M. I. (1998). Establishing a time-line of word recognition: Evidence from eye movements and event-related potentials. NeuroReport, 9, 2195 2200.
41. Thorpe, S., Fize, D. Marlot, C. (1996). Speed of processing in the human visual system. Nature, 381, 520 522.
42. Ulrich, R. Miller, J. (2001). Using the jackknife-based scoring method for measuring LRP onset effects in factorial designs. Psychophysiology, 38, 816 827.
43. Vogel, E. K., Luck, S. J. Shapiro, K. L. (1998). Electrophysiological evidence for a postperceptual locus of suppression during the attentional blink. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 24, 1656 1674.
44. Vogel, E. K. Machizawa, M. G. (2004). Neural activity predicts individual differences in visual working memory capacity. Nature, 428, 748 751.
45. Xu, Y. (2008). Representing connected and disconnected shapes in human inferior intraparietal sulcus. NeuroImage, 40, 1849 1856.