ERIC Number: EJ1313077
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-1088-8438
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What Underlies the Deficit in Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) in Adults with Dyslexia? Evidence from Eye Movements
Araújo, Susana; Huettig, Falk; Meyer, Antje S.
Scientific Studies of Reading, v25 n6 p534-549 2021
This eye-tracking study explored how phonological encoding and speech production planning for successive words are coordinated in adult readers with dyslexia (N = 22) and control readers (N = 25) during "rapid automatized naming" (RAN). Using an object-RAN task, we orthogonally manipulated the word-form frequency and phonological neighborhood density of the object names and assessed the effects on speech and eye movements and their temporal coordination. In both groups, there was a significant interaction between word frequency and neighborhood density: shorter fixations for dense than for sparse neighborhoods were observed for low- but not for high-frequency words. This finding does not suggest a specific difficulty in lexical phonological access in dyslexia. However, in readers with dyslexia only, these lexical effects percolated to the late processing stages, indicated by longer offset eye-speech lags. We close by discussing potential reasons for this finding, including suboptimal specification of phonological representations and deficits in attention control or in multi-item coordination.
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Naming, Phonology, Reading Processes, Dyslexia, Speech Communication, Language Processing, Task Analysis, Psychomotor Skills, Attention Control, Word Frequency, Vocabulary Skills, Reading Rate, Foreign Countries, Adults, Intelligence Tests, Reading Tests, Undergraduate Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Netherlands
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
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