Developmental differences of neurocognitive networks for phonological and semantic processing in Chinese word reading

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 797-809

  Cao, Fan ^a   Peng, Danling ^b   Liu, Li ^b   Jin, Zhen ^c   Fan, Ning ^b   Deng, Yuan ^d   Booth, James R ^a,e  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c 306 HOSPITAL OF PLA   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^e EVANSTON NORTHWESTERN HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese; Development; Meaning; Rhyming

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; READING; SEMANTICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 61449142601     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20546     Document Type: Article

References (94)

1. Aylward EH, Park JE, Field KM, Parsons AC, Richards TL, Cramer SC, Meltzoff AN (2005): Brain activation during face perception: Evidence of a developmental change. J Cogn Neurosci 17:308-319.
2. Beaulieu C, Plewes C, Paulson LA, Roy D, Snook L, Concha L, Phillips L (2005): Imaging brain connectivity in children with diverse reading ability. Neuroimage 25:1266-1271.
3. Bitan T, Booth JR, Choy J, Burman DD, Gitelman DR, Mesulam MM (2005): Shifts of effective connectivity within a language network during rhyming and spelling. J Neurosci 25:5397-5403.
4. Bitan T, Burman DD, Lu D, Cone N, Gitelman DR, Mesulam MM, Booth JR (2006): Weaker top-down modulation from left inferior frontal gyrus area in children. Neuroimage 33:991-998.
5. Bitan T, Burman DD, Chou TL, Dong L, Cone NE, Cao F, Bigio JD, Booth JR (2007a): The interaction of orthographic and phonological information in children: An fMRI study. Hum Brain Mapp 28:880-891.
6. Bitan T, Cheon J, Lu D, Burman DD, Gitelman DR, Mesulam MM, Booth JR. (2007b): Developmental changes in activation and connectivity of phonological processing. Neuroimage 38:564-575.
7. Blumenfeld HK, Booth JR, Burman DD (2006): Differential prefrontal-temporal neural correlates of semantic processing in children. Brain Lang 99:226-235.
8. Bolger DJ, Perfetti CA, Schneider W (2005): Cross-cultural effect on the brain revisited: Universal structures plus writing system variation. Hum Brain Mapp 25:92-104.
9. Bookheimer SY, Zeffiro TA, Blaxton T, Gaillard W, Theodore W (1995): Regional cerebral blood flow during object naming and word reading. Hum Brain Mapp 3:93-106.
10. Booth JR, Burman DD, Van Santen FW, Harasaki Y, Gitelman DR, Parrish TR, Mesulam MM (2001): The development of specialized brain systems in reading and oral-language. Child Neuropsychol 7:119-141.
11. Booth JR, Burman DD, Meyer JR, Gitelman DR, Parrish TR, Mesulam MM (2002a) Functional anatomy of intra- and cross-modal lexical tasks. Neuroimage 16:7-22.
12. Booth JR, Burman DD, Meyer JR, Gitelman DR, Parrish TR, Mesulam MM (2002b) Modality independence of word comprehension. Hum Brain Mapp 16:251-261.
13. Booth JR, Burman DD, Meyer JR, Zhang L, Choy J, Gitelman DR, Parrish TR, Mesulam MM (2003): Modality-specific and -independent developmental differences in the neural substrate for lexical processing. J Neurolinguistics 16:383-405.
14. Booth JR, Burman DD, Meyer JR, Zhang L, Gitelman DR, Parrish TR, Mesulam MM (2004): Development of brain mechanisms for processing orthographic and phonological representations. J Cogn Neurosci 16:1234-1249.
15. Booth JR, Lu D, Burman DD, Chou TL, Jin Z, Peng DL, Zhang L, Ding GS, Deng Y, Liu L (2006): Specialization of phonological and semantic processing in Chinese word reading. Brain Res 1071:197-207.
16. Booth JR, Cho S, Burman DD, Bitan T (2007): Neural correlates of mapping from phonology to orthography in children performing an auditory spelling task. Dev Sci 10:441-451.
17. Brem S, Bucher K, Halder P, Summers P, Dietrich T, Martin E, Bradeis D (2006): Evidence for developmental changes in the visual word processing network beyond adolescence. Neuroimage 29:822-837.
18. Chan CK, Siegel LS (2001): Phonological processing in reading Chinese among normally achieving and poor readers. J Exp Child Psychol 80:23-43.
19. Chee MW, Tan EW, Thiel T (1999): Mandarin and English single word processing studied with functional magnetic resonance imaging. J Neurosci 19:3050-3056.
20. Chee MW, Soon CS, Lee HL, Pallier C (2004): Left insula activation: A marker for language attainment in bilinguals. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 101:15265-15270.
21. Chen H-C, Shu H (2001): Lexical activation during the recognition of Chinese characters: Evidence against early phonological activation. Psychon Bull Rev 8:511-518.
22. Chen Y, Fu S, Iversen SD, Smith SM, Matthews PM (2002): Testing for dual brain processing routes in reading: A direct contrast of Chinese character and pinyin reading using FMRI. J Cogn Neurosci 14:1088-1098.
23. Chou TL, Booth JR, Burman DD, Bitan T, Bigio JD, Dong L, Cone NE (2006): Developmental changes in the neural correlates of semantic processing. Neuroimage 29:1141-1149.
24. Cohen L, Dehaene S, Naccache L, Lehericy S, Dehaene-Lambertz G, Henaff M-A, Michel F (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.
25. Deutsch GK, Dougherty RF, Bammer R, Siok WT, Gabrieli JD, Wandell B (2005): Children's reading performance is correlated with white matter structure measured by diffusion tensor imaging. Cortex 41:354-363.
26. Devlin JT, Jamison HL, Gonnerman LM, Matthews PM (2006): The role of the posterior fusiform gyrus in reading. J Cogn Neurosci 18:911-922.
27. Eden GF, Jones KM, Cappell K, Gareau L, Wood FB, Zeffiro TA, Dietz NA, Agnew JA, Flowers DL (2004): Neural changes following remediation in adult developmental dyslexia. Neuron 44:411-422.
28. Ellis AW, Young AW, Anderson C (1988): Modes of word recognition in the left and right cerebral hemispheres. Brain Lang 35:254-273.
29. Feng G, Miller K, Shu H, Zhang H, Miller K (2001): Rowed to recovery: The use of phonological and orthographic information in reading Chinese and English. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 27:1079-1100.
30. Fiez JA, Petersen SE (1998): Neuroimaging studies of word reading. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 95:914-921.
31. Gaillard WD, Sachs BC, Whitnah JR, Ahmad Z, Balsamo LM, Petrella JR, Braniecki SH, McKinney CM, Humter K, Xu B, Grandin CB (2003): Developmental aspects of language processing: fMRI of verbal fluency in children and adults. Hum Brain Mapp 18:176-185.
32. Guo T, Peng D, Liu Y (2005): The role of phonological activation in the visual semantic retrieval of Chinese characters. Cognition 98:B21-B34.
33. Herbster AN, Mintun MA, Nebes RD, Becker JT (1997): Regional cerebral blood flow during word and nonword reading. Human Brain Mapp 5:84-92.
34. Ho CS, Bryant P (1997): Phonological skills are important in learning to read Chinese. Dev Psychol 33:946-951.
35. Ho CS, Fong KM (2005): Do Chinese dyslexic children have difficulties learning English as a second language? J Psycholinguist Res 34:603-618.
36. Ho CS, Chan DW, Chung KK, Lee SH, Tsang SM (2007): In search of subtypes of Chinese developmental dyslexia. J Exp Child Psychol 97:61-83.
37. Ho CS, Chan DW, Lee SH, Tsang SM, Luan VH (2004): Cognitive profiling and preliminary subtyping in Chinese developmental dyslexia. Cognition 91:43-75.
38. Huang HS, Hanley JR (1995): Phonological awareness and visual skills in learning to read Chinese and English. Cognition 54:73-98.
39. Jonides J, Smith EE, Koeppe RA, Awah E, Minoshima S, Mintun MA (1993): Spatial working memory in humans as revealed by PET. Nature 363:623-625.
40. Kiehl KA, Liddle PF, Hopfinger JB (2000): Error processing and the rostral anterior cingulate: An event-related fMRI study. Psychophysiology 37:216-223.
41. Kiehl KA, Laurens KR, Liddle PF (2002): Reading anomalous sentences: An event-related fMRI study of semantic processing. Neuroimage 17:842-850.
42. Klingberg T, Hedehus M, Temple E, Salz T, Gabrieli JD, Moseley ME, Poldrack RA (2000): Microstructure of temporo-parietal white matter as a basis for reading ability: Evidence from diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging [see comments]. Neuron 25:493-500.
43. Kosslyn SM, Alpert NM, Thompson WL, Malijkovic V, Weise SB, Chabris CF, Hamilton SE, Rauch SL, Buonanno FS (1993): Visual mental imagery activates topographically organized visual cortex: PET investigations. J Cogn Neurosci 5:263-287.
44. Kramer AF, Donchin E. (1987): Brain potentials as indices of orthographic and phonological interaction during word matching. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 13:76-86.
45. Kuo W-J, Yeh T-C, Cuann J-R, Wu T-T, Ho L-T, Hung D, Tzeng OJL, Hsieh J-C (2001): A left-lateralized network for reading Chinese words: A 3 T fMRI study. Neuroreport 12:3997-4001.
46. Kuo WJ, Yeh TC, Lee JR, Chen LF, Lee PL, Chen SS, Ho LT, Hung DL, Tzeng OJ, Hsieh JC (2004): Orthographic and phonological processing of Chinese characters: An fMRI study. Neuroimage 21:1721-1731.
47. Leck KJ, Weekes BK, Chen MJ (1995): Visual and phonological pathways to the lexicon: Evidence from Chinese readers. Mem Cogn 23:468-476.
48. Liu W, Inhoff AW, Ye Y, Wu C (2002): Use of parafoveally visible characters during the reading of Chinese sentences. J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 28:1213-1227.
49. Liu Y, Perfetti CA (2003): The time course of brain activity in reading English and Chinese: An ERP study of Chinese bilinguals. Hum Brain Mapp 18:167-175.
50. Lu B.1993. Modern Beijing spoken Chinese corpus. Beijing: Beijing Language University Language Education Institute.
51. Luke KK, Liu HL, Wai YY, Wan YL, Tan LH (2002): Functional anatomy of syntactic and semantic processing in language comprehension. Hum Brain Mapp 16:133-145.
52. Martin A, Haxby JV, Lalonde FM, Wiggs CL, Ungerleider LG (1995): Discrete cortical regions associated with knowledge of color and knowledge of action. Science 270:102-105.
53. McBride-Chang C, Bialystok E, Chong KK, Li Y (2004): Levels of phonological awareness in three cultures. J Exp Child Psychol 89:93-111.
54. McBride-Chang C, Cho JR, Liu H, Wagner RK, Shu H, Zhou A, Cheuk CS, Muse A (2005): Changing models across cultures: Associations of phonological awareness and morphological structure awareness with vocabulary and word recognition in second graders from Beijing, Hong Kong, Korea, and the United States. J Exp Child Psychol 92:140-160.
55. Moses P, Roe K, Buxton RB, Wong EC, Frank LR, Stiles J (2002): Functional MRI of global and local processing in children. Neuroimage 16:415-424.
56. Nagy Z, Westerberg H, Klingberg T, Klingberg T (2004): Maturation of white matter is associated with the development of cognitive functions during childhood. J Cogn Neurosci 16:1227-1233.
57. Niogi SN, McCandliss BD (2006): Left lateralized white matter microstructure accounts for individual differences in reading ability and disability. Neuropsychologia 44:2178-2188.
58. Olesen PJ, Nagy Z, Westerberg H, Klingberg T (2003): Combined analysis of DTI and fMRI data reveals a joint maturation of white and grey matter in a fronto-parietal network. Cogn Brain Res 18:48-57.
59. Olesen PJ, Macoveanu J, Tegner J, Klingberg T (2007): Brain activity related to working memory and distraction in children and adults. Cereb Cortex 17:1047-1054.
60. Peng DL, Xu D, Jin Z, Luo Q, Ding GS, Perry C, Zhang L, Liu Y (2003): Neural basis of the non-attentional processing of briefly presented words. Hum Brain Mapp 18:215-221.
61. Perfetti CA, Liu Y, Tan LH (2005): The Lexical constituency model: Some implications of research on Chinese for general theories of reading. Psychol Rev 112:43-59.
62. Petersen SE, Fox PT, Posner MI, Mintun M, Raichle ME (1989): Positron emission tomographic studies of the processing of single words. J Cogn Neurosci 1:153-170.
63. Poldrack RA, Wagner AD, Prull MW, Desmond JE, Glover GH, Gabrieli JD (1999): Functional specialization for semantic and phonological processing in the left inferior prefrontal cortex. Neuroimage 10:15-35.
64. Pollatsek A, Tan LH, Rayner K (2000): The role of phonological codes in integrating information across saccadic eye movements in Chinese character identification. J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 26:607-633.
65. Price CJ, Moore CJ, Humphreys GW, Wise RJS (1997): Segregating semantic from phonological processes during reading. J Cogn Neurosci 9:727-733.
66. Pugh KR, Shaywitz BA, Shaywitz SE, Constable RT, Skudlarski P, Fulbright RK, Bronen RA, Shankweiler DP, Katz L, Fletcher JM, Gore JC (1996): Cerebral organization of component processes in reading. Brain 119:1221-1238.
67. Raichle ME, MacLeod AM, Snyder AZ, Powers WJ, Gusnard DA, Shulman GL (2001): A default mode of brain function. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 98:676-682.
68. Rumsey JM, Horowitz B, Donohue BC, Nace K, Maisog JM, Andreason P (1997): Phonological and orthographic components of word recognition: A PET-rCBF study. Brain 120:739-759.
69. Schlaggar BL, Brown TT, Lugar HM, Visscher KM, Miezin FM, Petersen SE (2002): Functional neuroanatomical differences between adults and school-age children in the processing of single words. Science 296:1476-1479.
70. Schmithorst VJ, Holland SK, Plante E (2006): Cognitive modules utilized for narrative comprehension in children: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Neuroimage 29:254-266.
71. Simos PG, Breier JI, Wheless JW, Maggio WW, Fletcher JM, Castillo EM, Papanicolaou AC (2000): Brain mechanisms for reading: The role of the superior temporal gyrus in word and pseudoword naming. Neuroreport 11:2443-2447.
72. Simos PG, Breier JI, Fletcher JM, Foorman BR, Castillo EM, Papanicolaou AC (2002): Brain mechanisms for reading words and pseudowords: An integrated approach. Cereb Cortex 12:297-305.
73. Siok WT, Fletcher P (2001): The role of phonological awareness and visual-orthographic skills in Chinese reading acquisition. Dev Psychol 37:886-899.
74. Siok WT, Jin Z, Fletcher P, Tan LH (2003): Distinct brain regions associated with syllable and phoneme. Hum Brain Mapp 18:201-207.
75. Siok WT, Perfetti CA, Jin Z, Tan LH (2004): Biological abnormality of impaired reading is constrained by culture. Nature 431:71-76.
76. Smith EE, Jonides J, Koeppe RA, Awh E, Schumacher EH, Minoshima S (1995): Spatial versus object working memory: PET investigations. J Cogn Neurosci 7:337-356.
77. Spinks JA, Liu Y, Perfetti CA, Tan LH (2000): Reading Chinese characters for meaning: The role of phonological information. Cognition 76:B1-B11.
78. Szaflarski JP, Schmithorst VJ, Altaye M, Byars AW, Ret J, Plante E, Holland SK (2006): A longitudinal functional magnetic resonance imaging study of language development in children 5 to 11 years old. Ann Neurol 59:796-807.
79. Tan LH, Spinks JA, Gao J-H, Liu H-L, Perfetti CA, Xiong J, Stofer KA, Pu Y, Liu Y, Fox PT (2000): Brain activation in the processing of Chinese characters and words: A functional MRI study. Hum Brain Mapp 10:16-27.
80. Tan LH, Liu HL, Perfetti CA, Spinks JA, Fox PT, Gao JH (2001): The neural system underlying Chinese logograph reading. Neuroimage 13:836-846.
81. Tan LH, Spinks JA, Feng CM, Siok WT, Perfetti CA, Xiong J, Fox PT, Gao JH, Kalogirou E (2003): Neural systems of second language reading are shaped by native language. Hum Brain Mapp 18:158-166.
82. Tan LH, Laird AR, Karl L, Fox PT (2005a) Neuroanatomical correlates of phonological processing of Chinese characters and alphabetic words: A meta-analysis. Hum Brain Mapp 25:83-91.
83. Tan LH, Spinks JA, Eden GF, Perfetti CA, Siok WT (2005b) Reading depends on writing, in Chinese. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 102:8781-8785.
84. Temple E, Poldrack RA, Salidis J, Deutsch GK, Tallal P, Merzenich MM, Gabrieli JDE (2001): Disrupted neural responses to phonological and orthographic processing in dyslexic children: An fMRI study. Neuroreport Int J Rapid Commun Res Neurosci 12:299-307.
85. Thompson-Schill SL, Aguirre GK, D'Esposito M, Farah MJ (1999): A neural basis for category and modality specificity of semantic knowledge. Neuropsychologia 37:671-676.
86. Turkeltaub PE, Garaeu L, Flowers DL, Zefirro TA, Eden G (2003): Development of the neural mechanisms for reading. Nat Neurosci 6:767-773.
87. Wang H, Chang RB, Li YS (1985): Modern Chinese frequency dictionary. Beijing: Beijing Language University Press.
88. Wang M, Perfetti CA, Liu Y (2005): Chinese-English biliteracy acquisition: Cross-language and writing system transfer. Cognition 97:67-88.
89. Weissman DH, Giesbrecht B, Song AW, Mangun GR, Woldorff MG (2003): Conflict monitoring in the human anterior cingulate cortex during selective attention to global and local object features. Neuroimage 19:1361-1368.
90. Wheatley T, Weisberg J, Beauchamp MS, Martin A (2005): Automatic priming of semantically related words reduces activity in the fusiform gyrus. J Cogn Neurosci 17:1871-1885.
91. Wiggs CL, Weisberg J, Martin A (1999): Neural correlates of semantic and episodic memory retreival. Neuropsychologia 37:103-118.
92. Xue G, Dong Q, Jin Z, Chen C (2004): Mapping of verbal working memory in nonfluent Chinese-English bilinguals with functional MRI. Neuroimage 22:1-10.
93. Xue G, Dong Q, Chen K, Jin Z, Chen C, Zeng Y, Reiman EM (2005): Cerebral asymmetry in children when reading Chinese characters. Cogn Brain Res 24:206-214.
94. Zhou XL (1997): Phonology plays a limited role in semantic activation. In: Peng DL, Shu H,Chen XC, editors. Cognitive Research on the Chinese Language. Shandong: Shandong Educational Publishing. pp 159-194.