Optical Imaging of Phonological Processing in Two Distinct Orthographies

Overview

Journal Exp Brain Res

Specialty Neurology

Date 2007 Nov 14

PMID 17999056

Citations 13

Authors

Hsin-Chin Chen

Jyotsna Vaid

Heather Bortfeld

David A Boas

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Abstract

Recent fMRI studies comparing the processing of alphabetic versus logographic scripts provide evidence for shared and orthography-specific regions of neural activity. The present study used near-infrared spectroscopy to compare (within and across brain regions) the time course of neural activation for these two distinct orthographies. Native readers of English and of Chinese were tested on a homophone judgment task. Differences across groups were obtained in the time course of hemodynamic change for the left middle frontal, left superior temporal, and left supramarginal gyri. Results thus support previous findings using fMRI and suggest that different neural mappings arise depending on whether an individual has learned to process written language using an alphabetic or logographic script.

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