An early electrophysiological response associated with expertise in letter perception

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作者
Wong, ACN [1 ]
Gauthier, I
Woroch, B
DeBuse, C
Curran, T
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[1] Vanderbilt Univ, Dept Psychol, Nashville, TN 37203 USA
[2] Univ Colorado, Dept Psychol, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
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D O I
10.3758/CABN.5.3.306
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B84 [心理学]; C [社会科学总论]; Q98 [人类学];
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03 ; 0303 ; 030303 ; 04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Expertise with print is likely to optimize visual processes for recognizing characters of a familiar writing system. Although brain activations have been identified for words and letter strings in contrast with other stimuli, relatively little work has focused on the neural basis of single-letter perception. English readers and Chinese-English bilinguals participated in an ERP study and performed a 1-back identity judgment on Roman letters, Chinese characters, pseudofonts, and their string versions. The Chinese-English bilinguals showed an enhanced N170 for both Roman letters and Chinese characters relative to pseudofonts. For the non-Chinese readers, the N170 amplitude was larger for Roman letters relative to Chinese characters and pseudofonts. Our results suggest that changes in relatively early visual processes underlie expert letter perception.
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页码:306 / 318
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