Phonology is fundamental in skilled reading: evidence from ERPs.

Word learning: An ERP investigation of word experience effects on recognition and word processing.

Adults of varying reading comprehension skill learned a set of previously unknown rare English words (e.g., gloaming) in three different learning conditions in which the type of word knowledge was manipulated. The words were presented in one of three conditions: (1) orthography-to-meaning (no phonology); (2) orthography-to-phonology (no meaning); and (3) phonology-to-meaning (no orthography). F...

Phonology is Fundamental in Skilled Reading

Neural correlates reveal sub-lexical orthography and phonology during reading aloud: a review

The sub-lexical conversion of graphemes-to-phonemes (GPC) during reading has been investigated extensively with behavioral measures, as well as event-related potentials (ERPs). Most research utilizes silent reading (e.g., lexical decision task) for which phonological activation is not a necessity. However, recent research employed reading aloud to capture sub-lexical GPC. The masked priming par...

A developmental perspective on the neural code for written words.

Two recent TICS articles [1,2] converge on the idea that in mature reading written words are coded by an abstract neural representation comprising either “open bigrams” [2] or bigrams in combination with larger units [1]. For example, the input TAKE is represented by the units TA TK TE AK AE and KE. However, open bigrams do not map onto phonology. Because phonology is fundamental in beginning a...

Electrophysiological Evidence for Impaired Attentional Engagement with Phonologically Acceptable Misspellings in Developmental Dyslexia

Event-related potential (ERP) studies of word recognition have provided fundamental insights into the time-course and stages of visual and auditory word form processing in reading. Here, we used ERPs to track the time-course of phonological processing in dyslexic adults and matched controls. Participants engaged in semantic judgments of visually presented high-cloze probability sentences ending...