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3. Universal brain signature of proficient reading: Evidence from four contrasting languages

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Rueckl, Jay G, Paz-Alonso, Pedro M, Molfese, Peter J, Kuo, Wen-Jui, Bick, Atira, Frost, Stephen J, Hancock, Roeland, Wu, Denise H, Mencl, William Einar, Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni, Lee, Jun-Ren, Oliver, Myriam, Zevin, Jason D, Hoeft, Fumiko, Carreiras, Manuel, Tzeng, Ovid JL, Pugh, Kenneth R, and Frost, Ram

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Language Studies, Linguistics, Biological Psychology, Cognitive and Computational Psychology, Language, Communication and Culture, Psychology, Behavioral and Social Science, Basic Behavioral and Social Science, Neurosciences, Neurological, Quality Education, Analysis of Variance, Brain, Brain Mapping, Female, Humans, Language, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Reading, Speech, Task Performance and Analysis, Young Adult, cross-language invariance, word recognition, functional MRI
Abstract

We propose and test a theoretical perspective in which a universal hallmark of successful literacy acquisition is the convergence of the speech and orthographic processing systems onto a common network of neural structures, regardless of how spoken words are represented orthographically in a writing system. During functional MRI, skilled adult readers of four distinct and highly contrasting languages, Spanish, English, Hebrew, and Chinese, performed an identical semantic categorization task to spoken and written words. Results from three complementary analytic approaches demonstrate limited language variation, with speech-print convergence emerging as a common brain signature of reading proficiency across the wide spectrum of selected languages, whether their writing system is alphabetic or logographic, whether it is opaque or transparent, and regardless of the phonological and morphological structure it represents.

Published
2015

12. Effects of Chronic Stress and Acute Stress on Driving Performance

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Oliver, Myriam, DeLucia, Patricia R., and Fagundes, Christopher P.

Abstract

The current study examines whether chronic stress due to spousal caregiving, compounded by acute stress, affects driving performance. Ten spousal caregivers completed the 12-item Zarit Burden Interview to assess caregiver burden level. Acute stress was manipulated by having participants complete the Trier Social Stress Test or a control task. Participants then used a driving simulator to complete a car-following (CF) task alone or concurrently with either a divided attention (DA) task, a backward counting (BC) task, or both. They also performed the DA task while driving without car-following requirements. Car-following measures, such as modulus and delay, and vehicle control measures such as standard deviation of lateral position were recorded. Participants also completed the Attention Network Task and the Useful Field of View (UFOV) task. Results indicated that caregiver burden level and acute stress did not degrade driving performance.

Published
2024
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