Sound and meaning: how native language affects reading strategies.
In the Italian language, spelling is consistently related to pronunciation, whereas English words that are spelled similarly are often pronounced differently. An imaging study now shows that native language affects the brain regions activated by reading aloud.
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Department of Psychology, 605 LRDC, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA. fiez+@pitt.edu
D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics; D010700:Phonetics; D011932:Reading; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology*