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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Cognitive Science
Psycholinguistics

Background:

Reading research has focused on single words.
Processing multiple words simultaneously remains poorly understood.
The simultaneous suppression paradigm investigates responses to multiple stimuli.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how the brain processes multiple English words presented simultaneously.
To compare brain responses to sequential versus simultaneous word presentations.
To identify brain regions involved in simultaneous word processing.

Main Methods:

fMRI study with participants viewing rapid sequences of frames.
Varying the number of English words (zero, one, two sequentially, two simultaneously).
Using pseudoletters matched to familiar letters and a behavioral detection task.

Main Results:

Behavioral accuracy was lower for simultaneous than sequential word detection.
BOLD responses in left hemisphere reading regions increased linearly with word count.
Ventral temporal regions showed reduced sensitivity to lexical frequency for simultaneous words.

Conclusions:

The reading network can detect simultaneous letter strings.
Simultaneous word presentation causes interference during lexical access.
This study elucidates the neural basis of processing multiple words in reading.