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Published on: February 8, 2020
Neural plasticity in the dynamics of human visual word recognition
1Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0515, USA. king@cogsci.ucsd.edu
Abstract:
Repeated exposure to words leads to plastic changes in the nervous system throughout the lifespan, with the consequence that common words are processed more rapidly and accurately than rare words. Most behavior time measures correlate highly with the logarithm of a stimulus word's experiential frequency. Here, we demonstrate similar but earlier changes in the latency of a brain-generated evoked potential recorded over the left anterior scalp as individuals silently read sentences. We conclude that experience can speed the processing of some words by at least 50 ms within the first 335 ms of visual processing.
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