Introduction Handwriting is a modality of language production whose cerebral substrates
remain poorly known although the existence of specific regions is postulated. The …

Producing written words requires “central” cognitive processes (such as orthographic long-
term and working memory) as well as more peripheral processes responsible for generating …

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comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

Developmental deficits in the acquisition of writing skills (developmental dysgraphias) are
common and have significant consequences, yet these deficits have received relatively little …

This paper presents a dual-route connectionist model of spelling, in which one route maps
directly from sound to spelling (phonemes to graphemes), while in the other route the …

In comparison with other research areas, such as reading, there have been relatively few
studies of spelling. Furthermore, spelling is an area where most of the available evidence …

How do we recall a word's spelling? How do we produce the movements to form the letters
of a word? Writing involves several processing levels. Surprisingly, researchers have …

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This paper investigates the cognitive processes underlying picture naming and auditory
word repetition. In the two-step model of lexical access, both the semantic and phonological …

The authors examined the effect of sound-to-spelling regularity on written spelling latencies
and writing durations in a dictation task in which participants had to write each target word 3 …