Psychology
The main characteristic of reading/writing that distinguishes them from language
What is the need to formal instruction?
The hemisphere(s) where an object seen on your right visual field will be processed.
What is the left hemisphere?
The name scientists gave to the brain area responsible for reading.
What is the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA)?
Something that we are certain is not a cause of dyslexia.
What is laziness?
The three vertices of the triangle model of lexical representation.
What are Meaning, Phonology and Orthography?
The part of the brain where the visual cortex is located.
What is the occipital lobe?
The brain area responsible for face processing in literate adults.
What is the RIGHT Fusiform Face Area (FFA)?
The brain region with lower activity in dyslexics when compared to good readers.
What is the VWFA?
Speech is necessarily serial while reading...
What is a parallel process?
The amount of time it takes for visual information to reach the visual cortex.
What is 50-80ms?
The auditory neural response correspondent to the visual M100.
What is the auditory M100?
The hemisphere babies use to process letters.
Wait, WHAT?
The effect that shows letters are more easily recognizable if they're part of a word
What is the Word Superiority Effect?
The name of the first neural response to visual input.
What is M100?
The reason why we are not born with a dedicated brain area for reading.
What is recency in human evolutionary history?
Training in this correspondence can enhance reading skills in dyslexics.
What is grapheme-to-phoneme correspondence?
The two types of knowledge/processing at work during word recognition.
What is bottom-up and top-down?
The name of the first neural activity due to letter strings sensitivity.
What is the M170?
The theory that suggests we process words in a brain area previously responsible for processing faces
What is the Neuronal Recycling Theory?
The linguistic ability that is impaired in dyslexics.
What is conscious access to phonological representations?