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What is a grapheme lexicon?
A store representation of spellings of words
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According to the cognitive model of writing, the semantic system is sometimes missed out between the auditory lexicon and the grapheme lexicon. What does this explain?
Silent letters
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What brain area is the central sulcus associated with?
Primary sensorimotor cortex
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What brain area is the superior temporal gyrus associated with?
Sound/ phonological processing
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What brain area is the middle occipital gyrus associated with?
Visual feedback processing
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Which hemisphere is activated more during writing?
LH
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What theory states that we are able to write due to the fact we have inner speech?
Phonetic mediation theory
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What were patient EB's symptoms?
No inner voice
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Patient MH was anomic, what were their symptoms?
Fluent in speech
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Patients JS and RD had Wernicke's aphasia, what was their main symptom?
Could spell but not pronounce words
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Who conducted the study which found that word frequency was more significant than whether the words were irregular or not?
Monaghan & Ellis (2002)
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Who found evidence of the word length effect for non-words as each letter has to be sounded out?
Lavidox & Ellis (2001)
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When literates read, the visual word form area (VWFA) is activated but, when illiterates see faces this area is activated. Who conducted this study?
Dehaene, Cohen, Morais & Kollinsky
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According to the dual route model of reading, what is the role of the lexical route?
Familiar words
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According to the dual route model of reading, what is the role of the non-lexical route?
Unfamiliar words
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What does damage to the lexical route cause?
Surface dyslexia- difficulty reading/ writing irregular words
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What does damage to the non-lexical route cause?
Phonological dyslexia- difficulty reading/ writing nonwords
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What is the reason that irregular words take longer to read?
There is competition between the two routes, lexical produces the correct word, non-lexical does not
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There is equal activation between the hemispheres when reading
False- there is more LH activation
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Who conducted a study on linguistic ability, cognitive function and Alzheimer's involving Nuns?
Snowdon et al
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