Unattentive speech processing is influenced by orthographic knowledge: Evidence from mismatch negativity

•We studied the influence of orthographic knowledge on unattentive speech perception.•MMN responses to riming spoken words were recorded in a passive oddball paradigm.•MMN amplitude increased when two riming spoken words had different spelling.•Acquiring a written code deeply modifies speech percept...

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Published in:Brain and language 2014-10, Vol.137, p.103-111
Main Authors: Pattamadilok, Chotiga, Morais, José, Colin, Cécile, Kolinsky, Régine
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Analysis of Variance
Attention - physiology
Brain Mapping
Cognitive science
Electroencephalography
Event-related potentials
Evoked Potentials, Auditory - physiology
Female
Humans
Linguistics
Male
Orthographic knowledge
Phonetics
Psychology
Reading
Reading acquisition
Recognition (Psychology) - physiology
Speech perception
Speech Perception - physiology
Young Adult
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Summary:•We studied the influence of orthographic knowledge on unattentive speech perception.•MMN responses to riming spoken words were recorded in a passive oddball paradigm.•MMN amplitude increased when two riming spoken words had different spelling.•Acquiring a written code deeply modifies speech perception. How far can acquired knowledge such as orthographic knowledge affect pre-existing abilities such as speech perception? This controversial issue was addressed by investigating the automaticity of the influence of orthographic knowledge on speech processing. Many studies demonstrated this influence in active, lexico-semantic speech processing tasks. However, it has never been observed when speech is unattended. Here, the Mismatch Negativity (MMN), an automatic index of experience-dependent auditory traces, was recorded in an unattended oddball paradigm manipulating the orthographic congruency between frequent and deviant spoken riming words. Both orthographically congruent and incongruent deviant words elicited a typical MMN over the fronto-central regions, with a stronger response in the incongruent condition. The finding showed that the orthographic dimension of spoken words influences a physiological marker of speech processing although participants were required not to attend to the auditory input. This provides evidence for an impact of acquiring a written code on speech processing.
ISSN:0093-934X
1090-2155
DOI:10.1016/j.bandl.2014.08.005