In the present theoretical note we examine how different learning constraints, thought to be
involved in optimizing the map** of print to meaning during reading acquisition, might …

We describe a multiple-route model of reading development in which coarse-grained
orthographic processing plays a key role in optimizing access to semantics via whole-word …

How the brain extracts words from auditory signals is an unanswered question. We recorded
approximately 150 single and multi-units from the left anterior superior temporal gyrus of a …

The present study used a variant of masked priming to track the development of 2 marker
effects of orthographic and phonological processing from Grade 1 through Grade 5 in a …

Most language users agree that some words sound harsh (eg grotesque) whereas others
sound soft and pleasing (eg lagoon). While this prominent feature of human language has …

We investigate the relation between general affective meaning and the use of particular
phonological segments in poems, presenting a novel quantitative measure to assess the …

The sound of language comprises all articulatory, acoustic, and perceptual aspects of
speech, including the phonological and phonetic recoding of orthographic symbols. The …

This paper describes a corpus of about 3,000 English literary texts with about 250 million
words extracted from the Gutenberg project that span a range of genres from both fiction and …

In this article we investigate structural differences between “literary” metaphors created by
renowned poets and “nonliterary” ones imagined by non-professional authors from Katz et …

This ERP study investigated the cognitive nature of the P1–N1 components during
orthographic processing. We used an implicit reading task with various types of stimuli …