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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Neuroimaging

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  • Morphological complexity is crucial in visual word recognition.
  • Previous studies indicate sensitivity to morphological complexity in real words.
  • It is unknown if this sensitivity extends to pseudowords, which would imply abstract morphological knowledge.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate if the brain distinguishes degrees of morphological complexity in pseudowords.
  • Determine if morphological processing is independent of lexicality.
  • Explore the neural basis of structural analysis in word recognition.

Main Methods:

  • Used German pseudowords with varying morphological complexity (two-step derivations).
  • Employed a 2x2 factorial design to analyze brain activation.
  • Matched pseudoword sets on cohort size and surface form.

Main Results:

  • Lexicality effects were distinct from structural analysis processing signatures in pseudowords.
  • Semantically-driven lexical search activated frontal regions.
  • Combinatorial structural analysis engaged parietal regions (superior parietal lobe, precuneus).
  • More complex pseudowords showed greater parietal activation.

Conclusions:

  • The brain's sensitivity to morphological structure operates independently of lexicality.
  • Parietal brain regions are involved in analyzing the internal structure of words, even non-words.
  • This highlights the role of abstract morphological knowledge in language processing.