title: Time course of brain activation during graphemic/phonologic processing in reading: an ERP study.
abstract: The present study sought to investigate the time course of brain activation during grapheme-to-phoneme conversion and phonologic processing of legal Italian syllables. To this goal, we monitored a group of right-handed native Italian volunteers performing a phonologic decision task (same/different judgments). ERPs were recorded from 28 scalp sites during silent reading. Analysis of ERP latency showed faster responses to same syllables than to different ones as early as 105 ms at left temporal electrode site and 160 ms at frontal sites. The first effect of phonologic/graphemic incongruity on the amplitude of ERPs was observed at lateral occipital/posterior temporal sites (N185), where physiologic responses were enhanced to incongruous syllables.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza dell'Ateneo Nuovo 1, Milano 20126, Italy. mado.proverbio@unimib.it
authors.forename: Alice Mado
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Proverbio
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zani
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000378:metabolism*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology*; D011932:Reading; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014825:Vocabulary