The processing of consonants and vowels during letter identity and letter position assignment in visual-word recognition: An ERP study

Brain and Language

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 105-117

  Vergara Martínez, Marta ^a,b   Perea, Manuel ^c   Marín, Alejandro ^b   Carreiras, Manuel ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^d BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

Author keywords

ERP waves; Letter transposition; Masked priming; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; READING; RESPONSE TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOWEL; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959644604     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2010.09.006     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Barber H.A., Kutas M. Interplay between computational models and cognitive electrophysiology in visual word recognition. Brain Research Reviews 2007, 53(1):98-123.
2. Barber H., Vergara M., Carreiras M. Syllable-frequency effects in visual word recognition: Evidence from ERPs. Neuroreport 2004, 15(3):545-548.
3. Bentin S., Mouchetant-Rostaing Y., Giard M.H., Echallier J.F., Pernier J. ERP manifestations of processing printed words at different psycholinguistic levels: Time course and scalp distribution. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 1999, 11:35-60.
4. Berent I., Marom M. Skeletal structure of printed words: Evidence from the stroop task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance 2005, 31(2):328-338.
5. Berent I., Perfetti C.A. A rose is a REEZ: The two-cycle model of phonology assembly in reading English. Psychological Review 1995, 102(1):146-184.
6. Bonatti L.L., Peña M., Nespor M., Mehler J. Linguistic constraints on statistical computations: The role of consonants and vowels in continuous speech processing. Psychological Science 2005, 16(6):451-459.
7. Brown P., Besner D. The assembly of phonology in oral reading: A new model. Attention and performance XII: The psychology of reading 1987, 471-489. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Hillsdale, NJ England. M. Coltheart (Ed.).
8. Buchwald A., Rapp B. Consonants and vowels in orthographic representations. Cognitive Neuropsychology 2006, 23:308-337.
9. Caramazza A., Chialant D., Capasso R., Miceli G. Separable processing of consonants and vowels. Nature 2000, 403(6768):428-430.
10. Carr T.H., Pollatsek A. Recognizing printed words: A look at current models. Reading research: Advances in theory and practice 1985, 1-182. Academic Press, Orlando, FL. D. Besner, T. Waller, G.E. MacKinnon (Eds.).
11. Carreiras M., Dunabeitia J.A., Molinaro N. Consonants and vowels contribute differently to visual word recognition: ERPs of relative position priming. Cerebral Cortex 2009, 19(11):2659-2670.
12. Carreiras M., Gillon-Dowens M., Vergara M., Perea M. Are vowels and consonants processed differently? ERP evidence with a delayed letter paradigm. Journal of Cognitive Neurocience. 2009, 21(2):275-288.
13. Carreiras M., Vergara M., Barber H. Early event-related potential effects of syllabic processing during visual word recognition. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2005, 17(11):1803-1817.
14. Carreiras M., Vergara M., Perea M. ERP correlates of transposed-letter similarity effects: Are consonants processed differently from vowels?. Neuroscience Letters 2007, 419(3):219-224.
15. Carreiras M., Vergara M., Perea M. ERP correlates of transposed-letter priming effects: The role of vowels versus consonants. Psychophysiology 2009, 46(1):34-42.
16. Colombo L., Zorzi M., Cubelli R., Brivio C. The status of consonants and vowels in phonological assembly: Testing the two-cycles model with Italian. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology 2003, 15:405-433.
17. Coltheart M., Davelaar E., Jonasson J.T., Besner D. Access to the internal lexicon. Attention and Performance (VI) 1977, Academic Press, New York. S. Dornic (Ed.).
18. Coltheart M., Rastle K., Perry C., Langdon R., Ziegler J. DRC: A dual route cascaded model of visual word recognition and reading aloud. Psychological Review 2001, 108(1):204-256.
19. Cutler A., Sebastian-Galles N., Soler-Vilageliu O., van Ooijen B. Constraints of vowels and consonants on lexical selection: Cross-linguistic comparisons. Memory & Cognition 2000, 28(5):746.
20. Davis, C.J. (1999). The self-organizing lexical acquisition and recognition (SOLAR) model of visual word recognition. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of New South Wales, Sidney.
21. Davis C.J., Perea M. BuscaPalabras: A program for deriving orthographic and phonological neighborhood statistics and other psycholinguistic indices in Spanish. Behavior Research Methods 2005, 37(4):665-671.
22. Gomez P., Ratcliff R., Perea M. The overlap model: A model of letter position coding. Psychological Review 2008, 115(3):577-600.
23. Grainger J., Dufau S. The front-end of visual word recognition. Models and methods, orthography and phonology 2011, Vol. 1. Psychology Press, Hove, UK. J.S. Adelman (Ed.).
24. Grainger J., Granier J.-P., Farioli F., van Heuven W.J.B., Van Assche E. Letter position information and printed word perception: The relative-position priming constraint. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 2006, 32(4):865-884.
25. Grainger J., Jacobs A.M. Orthographic processing in visual word recognition: A multiple read-out model. Psychological Review 1996, 103(3):518-565.
26. Grainger J., Kiyonaga K., Holcomb P.J. The time course of orthographic and phonological code activation. Psychological Science 2006, 17(12):1021-1026.
27. Grainger J., Van Heuven W.J.B. Modeling letter position coding in printed word perception. Mental lexicon: 'Some words to talk about words' 2003, 1-23. Nova Science Publishers, Hauppauge, NY, US. P. Bonin (Ed.).
28. Greenhouse S., Geisser S. On methods in the analysis of profile data. Psychometrika 1959, 24:95-112.
29. Holcomb P.J., Grainger J. On the time course of visual word recognition: An event-related potential investigation using masked repetition priming. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2006, 18(10):1631-1643.
30. Holcomb P.J., Grainger J., O'Rourke T. An electrophysiological study of the effects of orthographic neighborhood size on printed word perception. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2002, 14:938-950.
31. Johnson R.L. The flexibility of letter coding: Nonadjacent letter transposition effects in the parafovea. Eye movements: A window on mind and brain 2007, 425-440. Elsevier, Oxford. R.P.G. van Gompel, M.H. Fischer, W.S. Murray, R.L. Hill (Eds.).
32. Kutas M., Federmeier K.D. Electrophysiology reveals semantic memory use in language comprehension. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2000, 4(12):463-470.
33. Lee H.-W., Rayner K., Pollatsek A. The relative contribution of consonants and vowels to word identification in reading. Journal of Memory and Language 2001, 44:189-205.
34. Lee H.-W., Rayner K., Pollatsek A. The processing of consonants and vowels in reading: Evidence from the fast priming paradigm. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 2002, 9(4):766-772.
35. McClelland J.L., Rumelhart D.E. An interactive activation model of context effects in letter perception: I. An account of basic findings. Psychological Review 1981, 88(5):375-407.
36. Mehler J., Peña M., Nespor M., Bonatti L. The "Soul" of language does not use statistics: Reflections on vowels and consonants. Cortex 2006, 42(6):846-854.
37. Nazzi T. Use of phonetic specificity during the acquisition of new words: Differences between consonants and vowels. Cognition 2005, 98(1):13-30.
38. Nazzi T., New B. Beyond stop consonants: Consonantal specificity in early lexical acquisition. Cognitive Development 2007, 22:271-279.
39. Nespor M., Peña M., Mehler J. On the different roles of vowels and consonants in speech processing and language acquisition. Lingue e Linguaggio 2003, 2(2):203-229.
40. Neville H.J., Mills D.L., Lawson D.S. Fractionating language: Different neural subsystems with different sensitive periods. Cerebral Cortex 1992, 2(3):244-258.
41. New B., Araujo V., Nazzi T. Differential processing of consonants and vowels in lexical access through reading. Psychological Science 2008, 19(12):1223-1227.
42. Norris D. The Bayesian reader: Explaining word recognition as an optimal Bayesian decision process. Psychological Review 2006, 113(2):327-357.
43. Norris D., Kinoshita S. Perception as evidence accumulation and Bayesian inference. Insights from masked priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 2008, 137(3):434-455.
44. Oldfield R.C. The assessment and analysis of handedness: The Edinburgh inventory. Neuropsychologia 1971, 9(1):97-113.
45. Perea M., Acha J. Does letter position coding depend on consonant/vowel status? Evidence with the masked priming technique. Acta Psychologica 2009, 130(2):127-137.
46. Perea M., Lupker S.J. Can CANISO activate CASINO? Transposed-letter similarity effects with nonadjacent letter positions. Journal of Memory & Language 2004, 51:231-246.
47. Peressotti F., Grainger J. The role of letter identity and letter position in orthographic priming. Perception & Psychophysics 1999, 61(4):691-706.
48. Perry C., Ziegler J.C., Zorzi M. Nested incremental modeling in the development of computational theories: The CDP+ model of reading aloud. Psychological Review 2007, 114(2):273-315.
49. Sebastián-Gallés N., Martí M.A., Carreiras M., Cuetos F. LEXESP: Una base de datos informatizada del español 2000, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.
50. Toro J.M., Nespor M., Mehler J., Bonatti L.L. Finding words and rules in a speech stream: Functional differences between vowels and consonants. Psychological Science 2008, 19(2):137-144.
51. Whitney C. How the brain encodes the order of letters in a printed word: The SERIOL model and selective literature review. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 2001, 8(2):221-243.
52. Whitney C., Cornelissen P. Letter-position encoding and dyslexia. Journal of Research in Reading 2005, 28:274-301.
53. Ziegler J.C., Besson M., Jacobs A.M., Nazir T.A., Carr T.H. Word, pseudoword, and nonword processing: A multitask comparison using event-related brain. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 1997, 9(6):758-775.