The impact of orthographic knowledge on speech processing

Autores

  • Régine Kolinsky Université Libre de Bruxelles
  • Chotiga Pattamadilok Laboratoire Parole et Langage, CNRS, Aix-en-Provence
  • José Morais Université Libre de Bruxelles

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2012n63p161

Resumo

 

 

The levels-of-processing approach to speech processing (cf. Kolinsky, 1998) distinguishes three levels, from bottom to top: perception, recognition (which involves activation of stored knowledge) and formal explicit analysis or comparison (which belongs to metalinguistic ability), and assumes that only the former is immune to literacy-dependent knowledge.  in this contribution, we first briefly review the main ideas and evidence supporting the role of learning to read in the alphabetic system in the development of conscious representations of phonemes, and we contrast conscious and unconscious representations of phonemes. Then, we examine in detail recent compelling behavioral and neuroscientific evidence for the involvement of orthographic representation in the recognition of spoken words. We conclude by arguing that there is a strong need of theoretical re-elaboration of the models of speech recognition, which typically have ignored the influence of reading acquisition.

Biografia do Autor

Régine Kolinsky, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Régine Kolinsky has a Phd in Psychology. She is research director of the national Fund for Scientific research (FrS-FnrS), belgium, head of the research Unit in Cognitive neurosciences, Université libre de  bruxelles (http://www.unescog.org/), and member of the national Comitee for Psychological Sciences of the royal academy of belgium. She was visiting professor (CaPES) at UFSC in 1999-2000 and has been collaborating with  brazilian researchers for many years. her main research themes are the cognitive and brain consequences of literacy and schooling, and the interactions between language and music.

Chotiga Pattamadilok, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, CNRS, Aix-en-Provence

Chotiga Pattamadilok is  researcher at the  laboratoire Parole et langage, Université  aix-Marseille, France (Centre  national de la recherche Scientifique, CnrS). She got her Phd in Psychology at Université  libre de  bruxelles,  belgium.  her research focuses on the consequences of reading acquisition on speech processing in both normal readers and populations with reading deficit. She uses behavioral and brain imaging research techniques to understand the underlying mechanisms that lead to functional and anatomical changes in the brain once reading is acquired.

José Morais, Université Libre de Bruxelles

José Morais is Emeritus Professor of the Université libre de bruxelles (Ulb), belgium. Phd in Psychological Science from Ulb, he taught Cognitive Psychology, Psycholinguistics and  neuropsychology.  he was director of the laboratory of Experimental Psychology. doctor honoris causa of the University of lisbon in 2000, he was President of the national Committee of Psychological Sciences of the belgian royal academy (2005-2010). he was visiting researcher (CnPq) at UFSC in 1999-2000 and has been collaborating with brazilian researchers for almost 30 years. his research work concerns the perceptual and cognitive processing of written and spoken language in relation with brain organization, and includes the study of illiterate adults.

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2012-12-24

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n. 63 (2012): The Neuroscience of Reading

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