Yuka Egashira, Yoshimi Kaga, Atsuko Gunji, Yosuke Kita, Motohiro Kimura, Naruhito Hironaga, Hiroshige Takeichi, Sayuri Hayashi, Yuu Kaneko, Hidetoshi Takahashi, Takashi Hanakawa, Takashi Okada, Masumi Inagaki
Reading fluency is based on the automatic visual recognition of words. As a manifestation of the automatic processing of words, an automatic deviance detection of visual word stimuli can be observed in the early stages of visual recognition. To clarify whether this phenomenon occurs with Japanese kanji compounds-since their lexicality is related to semantic association-we investigated the brain response by utilizing three types of deviants: differences in font type, lexically correct or incorrect Japanese kanji compound words and pseudo-kanji characters modified from correct and incorrect compounds...
2022: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience