ArticleBehavioral and brain functions : BBF2020
Rapid acquisition of novel written word-forms: ERP evidence.
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- Electrophysiological signatures of spelling sensitivity development from primary school age to adulthood.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Dynamic brain responses to Russian word acquisition among Chinese adult learners: An event-related potential study.Human brain mapping · 2023Article
- Do pictures influence memory and metamemory in Chinese vocabulary learning? Evidence from Russian and Colombian learners.PloS one · 2023Article
- Frequency Effects on Spelling Error Recognition: An ERP Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Early lexical processing of Chinese one-character words and Mongolian words: A comparative study using event-related potentials.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundNovel word acquisition is generally believed to be a rapid process, essential for ensuring a flexible and efficient communication system; at least in spoken language, learners are able to construct memory traces for new linguistic stimuli after just a few exposures. However, such rapid word learning has not been systematically found in visual domain, with different confounding factors obscuring the orthographic learning of novel words. This study explored the changes in human brain activity occurring online, during a brief training with novel written word-forms using a silent reading task
resultsSingle-trial, cluster-based random permutation analysis revealed that training caused an extremely fast (after just one repetition) and stable facilitation in novel word processing, reflected in the modulation of P200 and N400 components, possibly indicating rapid dynamics at early and late stages of the lexical processing. Furthermore, neural source estimation of these effects revealed the recruitment of brain areas involved in orthographic and lexico-semantic processing, respectively.
conclusionsThese results suggest the formation of neural memory traces for novel written word-forms after a minimal exposure to them even in the absence of a semantic reference, resembling the rapid learning processes known to occur in spoken language.
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