ERIC Number: EJ1381998
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Jul
Pages: 18
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ISSN: ISSN-1363-755X
EISSN: EISSN-1467-7687
Lexical and Sublexical Cortical Tuning for Print Revealed by Steady-State Visual Evoked Potentials (SSVEPs) in Early Readers
Wang, Fang; Nguyen, Quynh Trang H.; Kaneshiro, Blair; Hasak, Lindsey; Wang, Angie M.; Toomarian, Elizabeth Y.; Norcia, Anthony M.; McCandliss, Bruce D.
Developmental Science, v26 n4 e13352 Jul 2023
There are multiple levels of processing relevant to reading that vary in their visual, sublexical, and lexical orthographic processing demands. Segregating distinct cortical sources for each of these levels has been challenging in EEG studies of early readers. To address this challenge, we applied recent advances in analyzing high-density EEG using Steady-State Visual Evoked Potentials (SSVEPs) via data-driven Reliable Components Analysis (RCA) in a group of early readers spanning from kindergarten to second grade. Three controlled stimulus contrasts--familiar words versus unfamiliar pseudofonts, familiar words versus pseudowords, and pseudowords versus nonwords--were used to isolate coarse print tuning, lexical processing, and sublexical orthography-related processing, respectively. First, three overlapping yet distinct neural sources--left vOT, dorsal parietal, and primary visual cortex were revealed underlying coarse print tuning. Second, we segregated distinct cortical sources for the other two levels of processing: lexical fine tuning over occipito-temporal/parietal regions; sublexical orthographic fine tuning over left occipital regions. Finally, exploratory group analyses based on children's reading fluency suggested that coarse print tuning emerges early even in children with limited reading knowledge, while sublexical and higher-level lexical processing emerge only in children with sufficient reading knowledge.
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Language Processing, Kindergarten, Emergent Literacy, Grade 1, Grade 2, Reading Processes, Diagnostic Tests, Familiarity, Reading Fluency
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Kindergarten; Primary Education; Grade 1; Grade 2
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Language: English
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