First and second language in the brain: Neuronal correlates of language processing and spelling strategies  

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Weber, Patricia ; Kozel, Nadja ; Purgstaller, Christian ; Kargl, Reinhard ; Schwab, Daniela ; Fink, Andreas

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 124 no. 1 (2013), page 22-33.
Topik: EEG; ERS/ERD; Alpha; Theta; Second language; Spelling strategies
Fulltext: 124_01_Weber.pdf (597.47KB)

Isi artikel

This study explores oscillatory brain activity by means of event-related synchronization and desynchronization (%ERS/ERD) of EEG activity during the use of phonological and orthographic-morphological spelling strategies in L2 (English) and L1 (German) in native German speaking children. EEG was recorded while 33 children worked on a task requiring either phonological or orthographic-morphological spelling strategies. L2 processing elicited more theta %ERS than L1 processing (particularly at bilateral frontal and right posterior parietal sites) which might suggest a stronger involvement of semantic encoding and retrieval of the less familiar L2. The highest level of theta %ERS was revealed for the orthographic-morphological strategy in L2 which might indicate a more intense way of lexical retrieval compared to the phonological strategy in L2 and the orthographic-morphological strategy in L1. Analyses moreover revealed that phonological processing (both in L1 and L2) was associated with comparatively strong left-hemispheric %ERD in the upper alpha frequency band.

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