The pseudohomophone effect: Evidence for an orthography-phonology-conflict

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 455, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 124-128

  Briesemeister, Benny B ^a   Hofmann, Markus J ^a   Tamm, Sascha ^a   Kuchinke, Lars ^a   Braun, Mario ^a   Jacobs, Arthur M ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conflict; Lexical decision task; MROM p; N400; Pseudohomophones; Pupillary responses

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORTHOGRAPHY PHONOLOGY CONFLICT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; PUPIL REFLEX; SEMANTICS; SPELLING; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63449094724     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.03.010     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Baayen R.H., Piepenbrock R., and Gulikers L. The CELEX Lexical Database (CD ROM), Linguistic Data Consortium (1995), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2. Beatty J. Task-evoked pupillary responses, processing load, and the structure of processing resources. Psychological Bulletin 91 (1982) 276-292
3. Beatty J., and Kahnemann D. Pupillary changes in two memory tasks. Psychonomic Science 5 (1966) 371-372
4. Biemann C., Bordag S., Heyer G., Quasthoff U., and Wolff C. Language-independent methods for compiling monolingual lexical data. Proceedings of CicLING, LNCS 2945 (2004), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 215-228
5. Botvinick M.M., Braver T.S., Barch D.M., Carter C.S., and Cohen J.D. Conflict monitoring and cognitive control. Psychological Review 108 3 (2001) 624-652
6. Botvinick M.M., Cohen J.D., and Carter C.S. Conflict monitoring and the anterior cingulate cortex: an update. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 8 12 (2004) 539-546
7. Borowsky R., Owen W.J., and Masson M.E.J. Diagnostics of phonological lexical processing: pseudohomophone naming advantages, disadvantages, and base-word frequency effects. Memory and Cognition 30 6 (2002) 969-987
8. Braun M., Jacobs A.M., Hahne A., Ricker B., Hofmann M., and Hutzler F. Model-generated lexical activity predicts graded ERP amplitudes in lexical decision. Brain Research 1073-1074 (2006) 431-439
9. M. Braun, F. Hutzler, J. Ziegler, M. Dambacher, A.M. Jacobs, Pseudohomophone effects provide evidence of early lexico-phonological processing in visual word recognition, Human Brain Mapping, 2008 Aug 22. [Epub ahead of print].
10. Edwards J.D., Pexman P.M., Goodyear B.G., and Chambers C.G. An fMRI investigation of strategies for word recognition. Cognitive Brain Research 24 (2005) 648-662
11. Friedman D., Hakerem G., Sutton S., and Fleiss J.L. Effect of stimulus uncertainty on the pupillary dilation response and the vertex evoked potential. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology 34 (1973) 475-484
12. Heldmann M., Markgraf U., Rodríguez-Fornells A., and Münte T.F. Brain potentials reveal the role of conflict in human errorful and errorless learning. Neuroscience Letters 444 (2008) 64-68
13. Hofmann M.J., Stenneken P., Conrad C., and Jacobs A.M. Sublexical frequency measures for orthographic and phonological units in German. Behavioral Research Methods 39 (2007) 620-629
14. Hofmann M.J., Tamm S., Braun M.M., Dambacher M., Hahne A., and Jacobs A.M. Conflict monitoring engages the mediofrontal cortex during nonword processing. NeuroReport 19 1 (2008) 25-29
15. Huntsman L.A. Looks aren't everything: pseudohomophones prime words but nonwords do not. Journal of Psycholinguistical Research 36 (2007) 47-63
16. Jacobs A.M., Rey A., Ziegler J.C., and Grainger J. MROM-P: an interactive activation, multiple read-out model of orthographic and phonological processes in visual word recognition. In: Grainger J., and Jacobs A.M. (Eds). Local Connectionists Approaches to Human Cognition (1998), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, New York 147-187
17. Jacobs A.M., Graf R., and Kinder A. Receiver operating characteristics in the lexical decision task: evidence for a simple signal-detection process simulated by the multiple read-out model. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 29 3 (2003) 481-488
18. Jasper H.H. The ten-twenty electrode system of the International Federation. Journal of Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology 20 (1958) 371-375
19. F. Klonek, S. Tamm, M. Hofmann, A.M. Jacobs, Does familiarity or conflict account for performance in the word-stem completion task? Evidence from behavioural and ERP data, Psychological Research, in press, published online as preprint 27 Nov 2008.
20. Kramer A.F., and Donchin E. Brain potentials as indices of orthographic and phonological interaction during word matching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 13 1 (1987) 76-86
21. Kuchinke L., Võ M.L.-H., Hofmann M., and Jacobs A.M. Pupillary responses during lexical decisions vary with word frequency but not emotional valence. International Journal of Psychophysiology 65 (2007) 132-140
22. Kutas M., and Federmeier K.D. Electrophysiology reveals semantic memory use in language comprehension. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 4 12 (2000) 463-470
23. Masaki H., Falkenstein M., Stürmer B., Pinkpank T., and Sommer W. Does the error negativity reflect response conflict strength? Evidence from a Simon task. Psychophysiology 44 (2007) 579-585
24. Newman R.L., and Connolly J.F. Determining the role of phonology in silent reading using event-related brain potentials. Cognitive Brain Research 21 (2004) 94-105
25. Nuthmann A., and van der Meer E. Time's arrow and pupillary response. Psychophysiology 42 (2005) 306-317
26. Onton J., Westerfield M., Townsend J., and Makeig S. Imaging human EEG dynamics using independent component analysis. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 30 6 (2006) 808-822
27. Reynolds M., and Besner D. Basic processes in reading: a critical review of pseudohomophone effects in reading aloud and a new computational account. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 12 4 (2005) 622-646
28. Rösler F., and Hahne A. Hirnelektrische Korrelate des Sprachverstehens: Zur psycholinguistischen Bedeutung der N400-Komponente im EEG. Sprache and Kognition 11 3 (1992) 149-161
29. Steinhauer S., and Zubin J. Vulnerability to schizophrenia: information processing in the pupil and event-related potential. In: Usdin E., and Hanin I. (Eds). Biological Markers in Psychiatry and Neurology (1982), Pergamon Press, Oxford 371-386
30. Transler C., and Reitsma P. Phonological coding in reading of deaf children: pseudohomophone effects in lexical decision. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 23 (2005) 525-542
31. M.L.-H. Võ, M. Conrad, L. Kuchinke, K. Hartfeld, M. Hofmann, A.M. Jacobs, The berlin affective word list reloaded (BAWL-R), Behavior Research Methods, in press.
32. Võ M.L.-H., Jacobs A.M., Kuchinke L., Hofmann M., Conrad M., Schacht A., and Hutzler F. The coupling of emotion and cognition in the eye: introducing the pupil old/new effect. Psychophysiology 45 1 (2007) 130-140
33. Yates M., Locker Jr. L., and Simpson G.B. Semantic and phonological influences on the processing of words and pseudohomophones. Memory and Cognition 31 6 (2003) 856-866
34. Yeung N., Botvinick M.M., and Cohen J.D. The neural basis of error detection: conflict monitoring and the error-related negativity. Psychological Review 111 4 (2004) 931-959
35. Ziegler J.C., Jacobs A.M., and Klüppel D. Pseudohomophone effects in lexical decision: still a challenge for current word recognition models. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 27 3 (2001) 547-599