Constraining current neuroanatomical models of reading: the view from Arabic

ML Seghier, S Boudelaa - Brain Structure and Function, 2024 - Springer
There is a growing interest in imaging understudied orthographies to unravel their neuronal
correlates and their implications for existing computational and neuroanatomical models …

Cracking the neural code for word recognition in convolutional neural networks

A Agrawal, S Dehaene - PLOS Computational Biology, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Learning to read places a strong challenge on the visual system. Years of expertise lead to a
remarkable capacity to separate similar letters and encode their relative positions, thus …

Where is mirror invariance? Masked priming effects by mirrored and rotated transformations of reversible and nonreversible letters

T Fernandes, E Xavier, M Domingues… - Journal of Memory and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The cognitive mechanism underpinning mirror priming effects for letters (eg, IDEA primed by
ibea) is still unclear: it could be about mirror invariance (perceptual equivalence of mirror …

Mirror letter priming is rightward-biased but not inhibitory: Little evidence for a mirror suppression mechanism in the recognition of mirror letters.

S Kinoshita, G Liong - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Unlike other visual objects which are invariant to the left–right orientation, mirror letters (eg,
b and d) represent different object identities. Previous masked priming lexical decision …

Matrices of the frequency and similarity of Arabic letters and allographs

S Boudelaa, M Perea, M Carreiras - Behavior Research Methods, 2020 - Springer
Indicators of letter frequency and similarity have long been available for Indo-European
languages. They have not only been pivotal in controlling the design of experimental …

Insights from the study of Arabic reading

EW Hermena, ED Reichle - Language and Linguistics …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Current reading models were largely designed to explain findings from experiments of the
reading of English and other European languages (Reichle, 2020, Computational models of …

Parafoveal processing of orthographic, morphological, and semantic information during reading Arabic: A boundary paradigm investigation

EW Hermena, EJ Juma, M AlJassmi - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Evidence shows that skilled readers extract information about upcoming words in the
parafovea. Using the boundary paradigm, we investigated native Arabic readers' processing …

Does linear position matter for morphological processing? Evidence from a Tagalog masked priming experiment

DKT Cayado, S Wray, L Stockall - Language, Cognition and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This study investigated morphological decomposition of Tagalog infixed, prefixed, and
suffixed words using the masked priming paradigm. We directly compared morphological …

[HTML][HTML] The differential effects of consonant and vowel diacritics in Arabic

S Boudelaa, D Norris, S Kinoshita - Journal of Memory and Language, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•Masked priming of letters with and without diacritics shows an asymmetric
pattern.•Diacriticked primes impede recognition of non-diacriticked same glyph letters but …

The triple-deficit hypothesis in Arabic: Evidence from children with and without dyslexia

S Layes, M Cohen, S van Viersen - Applied psycholinguistics, 2022 - cambridge.org
This study investigated the triple-deficit hypothesis in Arabic, a Semitic transparent
orthography, among 258 native Arabic children from Grade 3, divided into a typical readers …