Zweig, Eytan orcid.org/0000-0002-3535-7259 and Pylkkänen, Liina (2009) A visual M170 effect of morphological complexity. Language and Cognitive Processes. pp. 412-439. ISSN 0169-0965
Abstract
Recent masked priming studies on visual word recognition have suggested that morphological decomposition is performed prelexically, purely on the basis of the orthographic properties of the word form. Given this, one might expect morphological complexity to modulate early visual evoked activity in electromagnetic measures. We investigated the neural bases of morphological decomposition with magnetoencephalography (MEG). In two experiments, we manipulated morphological complexity in single word lexical decision without priming, once using suffixed words and once using prefixed words. We found that morphologically complex forms display larger amplitudes in the M170, the same component that has been implicated for letterstring and face effects in previous MEG studies. Although letterstring effects have been reported to be left-lateral, we found a right-lateral effect of morphological complexity, suggesting that both hemispheres may be involved in early analysis of word forms.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Lexicon,MEG,M170,Morphological decomposition,EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS,LETTER-STRING PERCEPTION,FUSIFORM FACE AREA,WORD FORM AREA,TIME-COURSE,NEUROMAGNETIC EVIDENCE,TEMPORAL CORTEX,LEXICAL STORAGE,EYE-MOVEMENTS,MEG-DATA |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > Language and Linguistic Science (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 07 Jun 2012 12:22 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 12:05 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/01690960802180420 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/01690960802180420 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:47347 |