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Writing words: Can neural data further our understanding of the underlying cognitive representations and processes?| old_uid | 15931 |
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| title | Writing words: Can neural data further our understanding of the underlying cognitive representations and processes? |
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| start_date | 2015/07/03 |
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| schedule | 09h-10h30 |
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| online | no |
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| summary | Behavioral studies of neurotypical and neurologically injured individuals have productively contributed to our understanding of the multiple and complex mental representations and processes that support our ability to produce written language. More recently, researchers have increasingly turned to the study of the neural bases of written word production. Understanding these neural bases is clearly an important objective in its own right. Here, however, I will focus on the question of whether or not the study of neural bases can contribute to our understanding of the cognitive representations and processes of written word production. I will discuss evidence from neuroimaging and lesion localization research that, I will argue, sheds light on issues concerning topics such as: the nature of the long-term and working memory processes that support literacy, the multiple components of lexical selection and representation in spelling as well as questions regarding the nature and abstractness of orthographic representations. I will conclude that neural approaches constitute additional tools that we can bring to the challenge of understanding the cognitive bases of written word production. |
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| responsibles | Rigalleau, Croizet |
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