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N170 ERPs could represent a logographic processing strategy in visual word recognition.

Gregory Simon1, Laurent Petit, Christian Bernard

  • 1Groupe d'Imagerie Neurofonctionnelle, UMR 6194, CNRS CEA, Universities of Caen & Paris Descartes, GIP Cyceron, boulevard Henri Becquerel, 14074 Caen Cedex, France. simon@cyceron.fr

Behavioral and Brain Functions : BBF
|April 25, 2007
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The N170 brain response during word repetition suggests visual word recognition may involve holistic processing for frequent words. This challenges the idea of purely prelexical orthographic activation, indicating a visual strategy might be employed.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • The occipito-temporal N170 component is crucial for discriminating faces, objects, and words along the brain's ventral stream.
  • Leftward N170 asymmetry in reading is typically linked to prelexical orthographic visual word form activation.
  • Lexical frequency effects on N170 during word repetition contradict a purely prelexical orthographic explanation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether word discrimination under repetition relies on visual rather than orthographic processing.
  • To explore if N170 activity reflects logographic processing (whole-word recognition) during repetition conditions.

Main Methods:

  • Subjects performed a visual lexical decision task with frequent words, infrequent words, and pseudowords.

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  • Three repetition conditions were used: weak, massive, and massive with font alternation.
  • Font alternation aimed to disrupt visual word shape during repetition to test for visual strategies.

    • Main Results:

    • Behavioral data revealed a frequency effect in weak repetition, a reduced effect in massive repetition, and no effect with font alternation.
    • Electrophysiological results showed larger left-hemisphere N170 amplitude for frequent words during massive repetition.
    • The N170 frequency effect disappeared when word font was alternated, suggesting a visual basis for this effect.

    Conclusions:

    • N170 is vital for visual word recognition, likely involving prelexical orthographic processing.
    • However, for very frequent words or after massive repetition, N170 may reflect holistic processing of words as global visual patterns.