Psychology 3442F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Phonics, Auditory Cortex, Logogram

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3442F/G
• Professor: Dr.Ansari

Document Summary

Reading as a cultural invention reading is a recent cultural invention. Took humans 2000 yrs of insights from rst logographic scripts to. Reid lyon - reading is not natural. Evolution hasn"t had enough time to evolve specialized brain circuit for reading. Brain takes a bunch of processes & connects them in order to allow us to read. Children are wired for sound but print is option accessory that must be bolted on. Cultural recycling of cortical maps good journal if doing nal essay on reading. Writing systems must have evolved to t the processing characteristics of brain circuits. Key building blocks for reading: visual processing - orthography. Greater shift of activation in left hemisphere in actual words. Word forms lead to greater activation of ventral stream in left segmental hemisphere. Visual word form area - associated w left-lateralized (letter by letter decoding) Key building blocks for reading: letter pattern knowledge/ morphology - morphemes are the smallest unit of meaning.