Abstract
Little is known about the relationship of reading speed and early visual processes in normal readers. Here we examined the association of the early P1, N170 and late N1 component in visual event-related potentials (ERPs) with silent reading speed and a number of additional cognitive skills in a sample of 52 adult German readers utilizing a Lexical Decision Task (LDT) and a Face Decision Task (FDT). Amplitudes of the N170 component in the LDT but, interestingly, also in the FDT correlated with behavioral tests measuring silent reading speed. We suggest that reading speed performance can be at least partially accounted for by the extraction of essential structural information from visual stimuli, consisting of a domain-general and a domain-specific expertise-based portion.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 15-26 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Brain and Language |
| Volume | 120 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 2012 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This research project was supported by a Manfred Lahnstein doctoral scholarship provided to Sebastian Korinth through the Zeit foundation Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius.
Keywords
- ERP
- Face perception
- Lexical decision
- N1
- N170
- P1
- Reading speed
- VWFA
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics and Language
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Speech and Hearing
