- Title
- Spatial attention and reading ability: ERP correlates of flanker and cue-size effects in good and poor adult phonological decoders
- Creator
- Matthews, Allison Jane; Martin, Frances Heritage
- Relation
- Brain and Language Vol. 151, p. 1-11
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2015.10.008
- Publisher
- Academic Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- To investigate facilitatory and inhibitory processes during selective attention among adults with good (n=17) and poor (n=14) phonological decoding skills, a go/nogo flanker task was completed while EEG was recorded. Participants responded to a middle target letter flanked by compatible or incompatible flankers. The target was surrounded by a small or large circular cue which was presented simultaneously or 500ms prior. Poor decoders showed a greater RT cost for incompatible stimuli preceded by large cues and less RT benefit for compatible stimuli. Poor decoders also showed reduced modulation of ERPs by cue-size at left hemisphere posterior sites (N1) and by flanker compatibility at right hemisphere posterior sites (N1) and frontal sites (N2), consistent with processing differences in fronto-parietal attention networks. These findings have potential implications for understanding the relationship between spatial attention and phonological decoding in dyslexia.
- Subject
- dyslexia; phonological decoding; reading; flanker effect; cue-size effect; spatial attention; ERPs; N1; N2
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1328387
- Identifier
- uon:25898
- Identifier
- ISSN:1090-2155
- Language
- eng
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