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Orthographic‐Phonological Mapping and the Emergence of Visual Expertise for Print: A Developmental Event‐Related Potential Study
Author(s) -
Varga Vera,
Tóth Dénes,
Csépe Valéria
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1111/cdev.13159
Subject(s) - psychology , cognitive psychology , phonology , event related potential , grapheme , visual perception , linguistics , neuroscience , perception , electroencephalography , graphene , physics , quantum mechanics , philosophy
The N1 effect is an electrophysiological marker of visual specialization for print. The phonological mapping hypothesis (Maurer & McCandliss, 2007) posits that the left‐lateralized effect reflects grapheme‐phoneme integration. In this event‐related potential study, first (age = 7.06 years, N = 32) and third‐grade readers (age = 9.29 years, N = 28) were presented with pairs of pseudowords and Armenian character strings in a novel implicit same‐different paradigm. To test the phonological mapping hypothesis, stimuli were presented in visual‐only and audiovisual conditions. The results demonstrated that tuning for print already emerges in first grade. Moreover, the parallel presentation of auditory stimuli enhanced the N1 effect suggesting a role of orthographic‐phonological mapping in the development of specialization for print.