Erschienen in: Neuroscience ; 295 (2015). - S. 151-163 Neuroscience 295 (2015) 151–163 THE NEURAL BASES OF THE PSEUDOHOMOPHONE EFFECT: PHONOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS ON LEXICO-SEMANTIC ACCESS IN READING Key words: models of visual word recognition, fMRI, lexical decision, phonological mediation, lexico-semantic access, spelling-check. M. BRAUN, a* F. HUTZLER, a T. F. MU¨NTE, c M. ROTTE, d M. DAMBACHER, b,e F. RICHLAN a AND A. M. JACOBS b,f a Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Salzburg, Austria b Institute of Psychology, Freie Universita¨t Berlin, Germany c Dept. of Neurology and Institute of Psychology II, University of Lu¨beck, Germany d Novartis Pharma, Basle, Switzerland e Dept. of Psychology, University of Konstanz, Germany f INTRODUCTION Almost everyone who learns to read is already able to speak and to understand spoken language. The first language code with which we are confronted is of phonological nature. In the process of learning to read, written letters are mapped to their phonological representations by a process of phonological recoding. In reading aloud phonological recoding is a necessary condition, since the orthographic code has to be translated into its phonological counterpart to allow for speech output. Most researchers agree that phonological recoding takes place in both, spoken and written language processing, but it is still a matter of debate to what extent it is also active in experienced readers (e.g., Hawelka et al., 2013; Ziegler et al., 2013; Frisson et al., 2014) and whether phonological recoding is automatically activated and guides access to lexico-semantic representations. In principle, phonological recoding could be abandoned after stable representations of visual word forms have developed and a skilled reader could determine the meaning of words directly from knowledge of its spelling. However, there is behavioral, electrophysiological, and neuroimaging evidence that the first language code with which we are confronted remains active in silent reading (e.g., Van Orden, 1987; Ziegler et al., 2000, 2001a; Ja¨ncke and Shah, 2004; Pammer et al., 2004; Alexander and Nygaard, 2008; Braun et al., 2009; Briesemeister et al., 2009; Wheat et al., 2010; Yao et al., 2011; Perrone-Bertolotti et al., 2012). Dahlem Institute for Neuroimaging of Emotion, Berlin, Germany Abstract—We investigated phonological processing in normal readers to answer the question to what extent phonological recoding is active during silent reading and if or how it guides lexico-semantic access. We addressed this issue by looking at pseudohomophone and baseword frequency effects in lexical decisions with event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The results revealed greater activation in response to pseudohomophones than for well-controlled pseudowords in the left inferior/superior frontal and middle temporal cortex, left insula, and left superior parietal lobule. Furthermore, we observed a baseword frequency effect for pseudohomophones (e.g., FEAL) but not for pseudowords (e.g., FEEP). This baseword frequency effect was qualified by activation differences in bilateral angular and left supramarginal, and bilateral middle temporal gyri for pseudohomophones with low- compared to high-frequency basewords. We propose that lexical decisions to pseudohomophones involves phonology-driven lexico-semantic activation of their basewords and that this is converging neuroimaging evidence for automatically activated phonological representations during silent reading in experienced readers. Ó 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. on behalf of IBRO. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Direct access vs. phonological mediation Two main views exist on how we gain access to the meaning of words in silent reading. The direct access hypothesis states that there is a direct pathway from orthography to meaning (e.g., Seidenberg, 1985), and that if phonological recoding is performed in silent reading it must be post-lexical (i.e., after meaning is computed). In contrast, the phonological mediation hypothesis (e.g., Van Orden, 1987) claims that phonological activation is a necessary condition to gain access to word meaning. Accordingly, phonology is assumed to be activated automatically prior to lexical access of word meaning *Corresponding author. Address: Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Universita¨t Salzburg, Hellbrunner Straße 34, 5020 Salzburg, Austria. Tel: +43-662-8044-5176; fax: +43-662-8044-5126. E-mail address: [email protected] (M. Braun). Abbreviations: AG, angular gyrus; ANOVA, analysis of variance; DRC, dual-route cascaded model; fMRI, functional magnetic resonance imaging; IPL, inferior parietal lobule; MROM-P, multiple read-out model including phonology; pIO, posterior inferior occipital gyrus; pSTS, posterior superior temporal sulcus; SFG, superior frontal gyrus; SMA, supplementary motor area; SMG, supramarginal gyrus; TMS, transcranial magnetic stimulation; vOT, ventral occipito-temporal cortex. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.03.035 0306-4522/Ó 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. on behalf of IBRO. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). 151 Konstanzer Online-Publikations-System (KOPS) URL: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-0-286341 152 M. Braun et al. / Neuroscience 295 (2015) 151–163 and thus taking place early during visual word recognition (for reviews see Berent and Perfetti, 1995; Frost, 1998). Pseudohomophone effect Evidence for phonological mediation is provided by the pseudohomophone effect (Rubenstein et al., 1971; McCann et al., 1988; Seidenberg et al., 1996) which describes the fact that a nonword (e.g., FEAL) which shares phonology but not orthography with a word (e.g., FEEL) leads to slower RTs compared to another nonword (e.g., FEEP). ‘‘FEEP’’ differs in phonology but its orthography is equally similar to the real word ‘‘FEEL’’. The pseudohomophone effect is used as a marker of phonological activation in reading development (e.g., Goswami et al., 2001) and provides major constraints for computational models of visual word recognition (Jacobs and Grainger, 1994; Ziegler and Jacobs, 1995; Seidenberg et al., 1996; Jacobs et al., 1998; Ziegler et al., 2001b). The standard explanation for the pseudohomophone effect is that a given pseudohomophone contacts the lexical representation of its phonologically identical baseword in a mental lexicon, which in turn activates semantic information associated with that representation. Thus, the ‘phonological lexicon’ and co-activated semantics of the baseword signal the presence of a word, whereas the ‘orthographic lexicon’ signals its absence. In lexical decision, it is assumed that resolving this conflict takes time and therefore participants show longer response times for pseudohomophones compared to pseudowords (Jacobs et al., 1998; Ziegler et al., 2001b). Furthermore, baseword frequency effects provide evidence for a lexical locus of the pseudohomophone effect (see below). Baseword frequency The baseword frequency effect states that pseudohomophones with low-frequency basewords lead to slower response times than those with high baseword frequencies in lexical decision (e.g., Ziegler et al., 2001b; Reynolds and Besner, 2005), but also in semantic categorization and proofreading (Ziegler et al., 1997). A baseword frequency effect for pseudohomophones could be interpreted as reflecting the activation of frequency sensitive representations of the basewords through the pseudohomophone’s identical phonology suggesting phonology-driven lexical access (e.g., Forster and Chambers, 1973). Models of visual word recognition The first computational models simulating the pseudohomophone effect, were the multiple read-out model including phonology (MROM-P; Jacobs et al., 1998) and the dual-route cascaded model (DRC; Coltheart et al., 2001). Both explain the pseudohomophone effect in lexical decision in terms of higher summed global lexical activity in a phonological lexicon which prolongs a temporal deadline generating longer response times for pseudohomophones compared to pseudowords. Both make the same predictions concerning the baseword frequency effect. Pseudohomophones with low-frequency basewords should lead to faster responses because pseudohomophones with high-frequency basewords should elicit higher activation leading to stronger word present signals resulting in more errors and slower responses in lexical decisions. However, the empirical findings show reversed effects: responses to pseudohomophones with high-frequency basewords are faster than to those with low-frequency basewords (e.g., Ziegler et al., 2001a,b). In the light of this finding a spelling-check was proposed to account for the baseword frequency effect (e.g., Paap et al., 1982). The idea is that pseudohomophones activate high-frequency basewords faster, because these have higher resting levels and are therefore accessed more easily in an orthographic lexicon allowing for a faster spelling-check. Unfortunately, the models mostly do not directly speak to brain regions assumed to process certain kinds of information or to the processing strength of specific stimuli in specific tasks. Nevertheless, recent neuroimaging research has made progress to more directly link the output of computational models to brain activation (Braun et al., 2006; Levy et al., 2009; Taylor et al., 2013; Graves et al., 2014; Hofmann and Jacobs, 2014). Reading network There is neuroimaging evidence for an indirect (sublexical) and a direct (lexico-semantic) route for lexical access in line with the dual-route account of the DRC. The former is thought to correspond to a dorsal occipito-parietal to inferior-frontal circuit (Jobard et al., 2003; Price, 2012). The dorsal circuit is believed to be involved in the conversion of orthography to phonology and to comprise superior temporal and inferior parietal regions with the supramarginal gyrus (SMG) and the opercular part of the IFG. The direct route comprises a ventral occipito-temporal circuit involving the ventral occipito-temporal cortex (vOT), the inferior temporal (ITG; Kronbichler et al., 2004) and posterior middle temporal gyrus (pMTG; Noonan et al., 2013), as well as the triangular part of the IFG and is assumed to be involved in lexico-semantic processing. Furthermore, parts of the angular gyrus (AG) and the SMG seem to be involved in the processing of semantic information (e.g., Binder et al., 2003, 2005, 2009; Binder and Desai, 2011). But these results do not directly speak to the question about the fate of phonology after stable sound-to-letter correspondences have been established as in experienced readers. Below we report brain regions involved in phonological and lexico-semantic processing. We expect activity in these regions in case pseudohomophones’ phonology activate their basewords and in turn allow for lexico-semantic access. Phonological processing The specific regions believed to signal phonological processing comprise the left IFG (Fiebach et al., 2002; Ischebeck et al., 2004; Heim et al., 2009, 2013), bilateral insula (Borowsky et al., 2006; Mechelli et al., 2007), the STG (Mesulam, 1990; Rumsey et al., 1997; Booth et al., 2002), the SMG and AG (Paulesu et al., 1993; Binder et al., 2003; Ischebeck et al., 2004; Joubert et al., 2004; Kronbichler et al., 2007; Church et al., 2008), and the M. Braun et al. / Neuroscience 295 (2015) 151–163 supplementary motor area (SMA; Carreiras et al., 2006). Activation of the left IFG and the insula has been proposed to serve grapheme–phoneme conversion (pars opercularis) and/or processing for lexico-semantic access (i.e., pars triangularis and orbitalis; Poldrack et al., 1999; Fiebach et al., 2002). Such functional roles are also assigned to parts of the inferior parietal lobule (IPL; e.g., Booth et al., 2002). In their meta-analysis Jobard et al. (2003) suggested that phonological processing involves left lateralized brain structures such as superior temporal areas, the SMG and the opercular part of the left IFG. Jobard et al. (2003) identified three clusters of which two were located in the anterior and posterior parts of the STG and the third in the MTG. Furthermore, Bitan et al. (2005) reported activation in left MTG for rhyming, but not for spelling judgments (see also Indefrey and Levelt, 2004; Simos et al., 2009; Graves et al., 2010, 2014; Newman and Joanisse, 2011 for further evidence of phonological processing in MTG). Semantics The meta-analysis of 120 functional neuroimaging studies of Binder et al. (2009) reported seven main regions for semantic processing including the posterior IPL (AG and SMG), the lateral temporal cortex (MTG and ITG), and the left IFG. Furthermore, activation in pars orbitalis of the left ventral IFG was linked to semantic processing. Devlin et al. (2003) applied transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to the anterior IFG during semantic and perceptual decision tasks. TMS slowed participants’ reaction time on the semantic but not on the control task, supporting a causal role for the anterior IFG in semantic processing (see also Poldrack et al., 1999; Wagner et al., 2001). A large body of evidence links MTG activation to semantic processing (e.g., Price et al., 1997; Indefrey and Levelt, 2004; Gold et al., 2005; Vigneau et al., 2006; Booth et al., 2007; Richlan et al., 2009; Newman and Joanisse, 2011; Whitney et al., 2011; Noonan et al., 2013). Thus, research mainly suggests a lexico-semantic reading pathway that integrates the left vOT with the left ventral IFG, and a probably non-semantic, phonological decoding pathway linking the superior temporal and inferior parietal cortices to the dorsal precentral gyrus. Until now it remains unclear how these pathways overlap or dissociate in the reading system (Price, 2012). This is especially true for the MTG where evidence suggests that activation either signals phonological processing involving the dorsal path (Indefrey and Levelt, 2004; Simos et al., 2009; Graves et al., 2010, 2014; Newman and Joanisse, 2011) or semantic processing involving the ventral path (Price et al., 1997; Indefrey and Levelt, 2004; Gold et al., 2005; Vigneau et al., 2006; Booth et al., 2007; Richlan et al., 2009; Newman and Joanisse, 2011; Whitney et al., 2011; Noonan et al., 2013). Present study The aim of the present study was to investigate the pseudohomophone and the baseword frequency effect in lexical decision by means of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The demonstration of 153 pseudohomophone and baseword frequency effects in lexical decision, a task which does not necessarily require phonological processing (Seidenberg, 1985; Grainger and Jacobs, 1996) would provide evidence for an automatic activation of phonological representations which constrains access to meaning (Van Orden, 1987; Edwards et al., 2005). We assume that lexical decisions to pseudohomophones involve the activation of the baseword’s phonological code which signals the presence of a word while the orthographic code signals its absence. This should result in greater activation in left hemispheric regions involved in the computation of these codes such as the insula, pars opercularis of the IFG, the SMA, the STG or SMG in case of phonological processing, and vOT and parts of the IFG in case of orthographic (Cohen et al., 2000), and pars orbitalis and triangularis of the IFG and inferior parietal and middle temporal areas for semantic processing (Gold et al., 2005; Noonan et al., 2013). Paralleling the logic used in behavioral studies, brain activation should be modulated by the pseudohomophone – pseudoword contrast. In addition, if phonological processing constrains lexico-semantic access at the whole-word level, neural activation in response to pseudohomophones should be influenced by their baseword frequency. In particular, a baseword frequency effect would support models of visual word recognition implementing whole-word phonological as well as frequency-sensitive representations. We thus expect that this kind of processing activates areas believed to be involved in lexico-semantic processing like the AG and MTG, or the pars triangularis and orbitalis of the left IFG (Bitan et al., 2005; Gold et al., 2005; Lau et al., 2008; Binder et al., 2009). While the basis of the baseword frequency effect in lexical decision is still under debate, the most parsimonious explanation seems the assumption of a spelling-check which is probably more effortful for lowfrequency basewords (Ziegler et al., 2001b) and might be due to lower resting levels of the orthographic codes (Grainger and Jacobs, 1996). A harder spelling-check for low-frequency items could lead to greater activation in regions concerned with orthographic processing like the IFG or the vOT (Purcell et al., 2011). We carefully controlled our pseudohomophones and pseudowords for a number of lexical and sublexical measures known to influence visual word processing (see Table 1). Pseudohomophones and pseudowords did not differ in orthographic similarity from each other nor to their identical basewords. Thus, if pseudohomophones and pseudowords differed in response times and BOLD responses the effect could not be due to an orthographic similarity confound. Furthermore, if participants in lexical decision made only use of the direct orthographic–semantic route both, pseudohomophones and pseudowords should activate the meaning of their basewords to the same extent, leading to similar brain activation in the above mentioned ‘lexico-semantic’ networks. EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES All procedures were cleared by the local ethics review board. 154 M. Braun et al. / Neuroscience 295 (2015) 151–163 Table 1. Sample stimuli Length 3-Letters 4-Letters 5-Letters Pseudohomophones Pseudowords Basewords LF HF LF HF LF HF ZEE EKKE ZISD ALD FOLK RAICH ZER EFKE ZWISP ALZ BOLK REUCH ZEH ECKE ZWIST ALT VOLK REICH Note: LF = low baseword frequency; HF = high baseword frequency. Participants Fourteen right-handed students (three men, mean age 23 years, range 20–30) participated in the study. All participants were native German speakers, had normal or corrected to normal vision, were free of any current or past neuropsychiatric disorders and did not take psychoactive medication. Data from all participants were used in the analyses. Participants were compensated for their time with 24 Euro. Stimuli The stimulus set contained 480 stimuli (240 words and 240 nonwords). Of the 240 word stimuli 120 served as fillers. Of the 240 non-words half were pseudohomophones and half were pseudowords. Pseudohomophones and pseudowords were derived from the same base words by replacement of one letter. Where possible, the letter was changed at the same position and a vowel was replaced by another vowel and a consonant by another consonant. Pseudohomophones had the same phonology, but differed in spelling from their basewords. Pseudowords differed in spelling and also in phonology from their base words. All pseudowords were pronounceable, for example, ‘SAHL’ is a pseudohomophone derived from the baseword ‘SAAL’ (hall) and ‘SARL’ is the corresponding pseudoword. Of the pseudohomophones and the pseudowords one third had three, one third had four and one third had five letters. Half of the pseudohomophones and pseudowords of each length were derived from high-frequency basewords (more than 20 occurrences per million, mean 854.3). The other half of the pseudohomophones and pseudowords had lowfrequency basewords (less than 20 occurrences per million, mean 6.8). Frequency estimates were taken from the CELEX database (Baayen et al., 1993) (see Table 1). To rule out orthographic similarity as a potential source of the pseudohomophone effect, pseudohomophones and pseudowords were matched according to the strong criteria put forward by Martin (1982). Pseudohomophones and pseudowords were controlled for a number of letters (let, F(3,236) = 0, p = 1, bigram frequency (BF, F(3,236) = 1.705, p = .167), number of bigram neighbors (BN, F(2,236) = 0.198, p = .898), number of orthographic neighbors (N, F(3,236) = .086, p = .968), number of higher frequency numbers (HFN, F(3,236) = 2.121, p = .098) and summed frequency of orthographic neighbors (FN, F(3,236) = 0.666, p = .574). Thus, none of these variables differed for items of low- and highfrequency within each nonword condition and also not between conditions which should rule out sublexical and global lexical activity as a potential source of differences between pseudohomophones and pseudowords. Table 2 shows the controlled variables for pseudohomophones and pseudowords and the statistics for words. Of the 120 word stimuli, one third had three, one third had four, and one third had five letters. Half of the word stimuli of each word length were of high frequency (more than 11 occurrences per million, mean 421.2) and the other half were of low frequency (less than 11 occurrences per million, mean 3.3). Words of high and low frequency were matched on bigram count (BC, F(1,118) = 0.985, p = .323), number of letters (let, F(1,118) = 0, p = 1), summed frequency of the neighbors (FN, F(1,118) = 0.714, p = .400) and summed frequency of higher frequency neighbors (FHFN, F(1,118) = 0.649, p = .422). Procedure Before participants were placed in the scanner they were given written instructions and were further orally informed about the experimental procedure. They were informed that they would see letter strings, some of which were German words and some were nonwords. Participants were instructed to indicate via button press as rapidly as possible, but not to the expense of accuracy, whether the stimulus was a German word or not. Two magnet-compatible response boxes (one in each hand) were used. The response hands were counterbalanced across participants. Participants performed 15 practice trials to familiarize themselves with the task. The experiment was divided into three runs. The experimental trials were presented in randomized order for each participant. Each stimulus was presented for 1000 ms with an inter-stimulus interval of 2000 ms during which a fixation cross was presented – resulting in a total trial duration of 3000 ms. Responses with reaction times below 200 ms and above 2000 ms were excluded (0.39%). The stimuli were displayed in yellow on a gray background using upper case letters set in Courier 48-pt font. Visual images were back-projected onto a screen by an LED-projector and participants viewed the images through a mirror on the head coil. The whole experiment took about 40 min. The experiment was implemented using Presentation experimental software (Neurobehavioral Systems Inc, Albany, CA, USA). Image acquisition Functional and structural imaging was performed with a General Electric 1.5 Tesla Signa scanner (General Electric, Fairfield, CT, USA) using a standard head-coil. 155 M. Braun et al. / Neuroscience 295 (2015) 151–163 Table 2. Descriptive statistics for pseudohomophones, pseudowords and words Frequency High Mean Pseudohomophones bwF 6.8(6.6) BF 2623(5038) BN 17(11) FN 3242(16083) HFN 3.6(2.3) Letters 4(0.84) N 3.6(2.3) Low 854.3(3390) 3713(4419) 16(9) 1231(3609) 3.4(2.5) 4(0.82) 3.4(2.5) 430.5 3157.5 16.5 2236.5 3.5 4 3.5 Pseudowords bwF BF BN FN HFN Letters N 6.8(6.6) 5150(15883) 16(11) 3416(15727) 2.8(2.2) 4(0.84) 3.6(2.3) 854.3(3390) 8051(21930) 15(10) 5324(22117) 2.8(1.9) 4(0.82) 3.4(2.5) 430.5 6600.5 15.5 4370 Words F BC BF BN N FHFN FN HFN Letters Syl 3.3(2.7) 42(49) 4025(5492) 15(10) 2.9(2.5) 2778(15869) 2722(14595) 1.8(1.9) 4(0.82) 1.5(0.5) 421.2(295) 52(55) 13672(23806) 20(10) 4.3(2.8) 5653(22539) 5496(20745) 0.5(0.7) 4(0.82) 1.3(0.5) 212.3 47.5 8848.5 17.5 3.6 4215.5 4109 1.18 4 1.4 4 3.5 Note: BC = summed bigram count; BF = summed bigram frequency; BN = number of bigram neighbors; F = word frequency/million; FHFN = summed frequency of higher frequency orthographic neighbors; FN = summed frequency of orthographic neighbors; HFN = number of higher frequency orthographic neighbors; Letter = number of letters; N = number of neighbors; Syl = number of syllables. Numbers in brackets represent standard deviations. Conventional high-resolution structural images (rf-spoiled GRASS sequence, 60 slice sagittal, 2.8-mm thickness) were followed by three runs with 308 volumes each of functional images sensitive to BOLD contrast acquired with a T2⁄-weighted gradient echo EPI sequence (TR = 2000 ms, TE = 29 ms, flip angle = 80°, number of slices = 34, slice thickness = 3.5 mm, 64 64 matrix, FOV 224 mm). Low-frequency noise was removed with a high-pass filter (128s). fMRI analysis Data were analyzed using the general linear model in SPM8 (Statistical Parametric Mapping; Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology, London, UK: http:// www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm). The first three scans of each run were discarded to avoid magnetic saturation effects. Firstly, data were pre-processed for each subject: after separate realignment procedures for the three runs, a coregistration step was performed to adjust the images of each subject to the first individual run. Parameters for spatial normalization were determined by normalizing the mean realigned image to a standard EPI template. Subsequently, functional images were resampled to isotropic 3 3 3-mm voxels and spatially smoothed with an 8-mm full-width at half-maximum isotropic Gaussian kernel. All experimental conditions were modeled by a canonical hemodynamic response function and its temporal time derivatives. Errors to pseudohomophones and pseudowords were low (3%; corresponding to an average of seven items per subject) and were therefore not modeled separately. Statistical analysis was performed in a two-stage mixed effects model. On the subject-specific first-level model conditions of interest were contrasted against the fixation baseline. These subject-specific contrast images were used for the second-level group analysis. Direct contrasts between pseudohomophones and pseudowords with high and low baseword frequency were calculated with a 2 2 repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) and paired t-tests. Stereotaxic coordinates for voxels with maximal z-values within activation clusters are reported in the MNI coordinate system. RESULTS Behavioral results Response times to words were about 150 ms faster than to nonwords. Percentage of errors to words and nonwords was low and nearly the same (2.89% vs. 3.05%) and therefore not further analyzed. Items with response times above 2000 ms were excluded from the analysis. Words were responded to fastest followed by responses to pseudowords and pseudohomophones. Response times were slower to low- than to highfrequency items in each category. Table 3 shows the mean response times and error rates for the different stimuli categories. For response times, separate 2 2 ANOVAs with homophony (pseudohomophones vs. pseudowords) and frequency (high vs. low) as factors were performed for subjects (F1) and items (F2). In the repeated measures ANOVA by subjects homophony and frequency were treated as within-subject factors. The analyses revealed effects of homophony (F1(1,13) = 18.85, p < .001; F2(1,236) = 11.55, p < .001) and frequency (F1(1,13) = 7.89, p = .015; F2(1,236) = 4.69, p = .031) and also a significant interaction (F1(1,13) = 8.40, p = .012; F2(1,236) = 3.89, p = .049). Response times were slower in response to pseudohomophones derived from lowcompared to high-frequency basewords (t = 3.610, df = 13, p = .003). In contrast, response times to pseudowords did not differ with regard to frequency Table 3. Mean response times (with standard error) and error rates for pseudohomophones, pseudowords and words PSH PSW WOR Response time (ms) Error rates (%) LF HF LF HF 959(15) 893(10) 792(16) 909(12) 891(12) 748(11) 1.68 0.40 1.23 0.67 0.30 1.66 Note: PSH = pseudohomophones, PSW = pseudowords and WOR = words. LF = low (base)word frequency; HF = high (base)word frequency. 156 M. Braun et al. / Neuroscience 295 (2015) 151–163 (t = 0.559, df = 13, p = .586). Additional contrasts for pseudohomophones and pseudowords separately calculated for items with high- and low-frequency basewords showed a significant difference for low(t = 5.187, df = 13, p < .001) and a marginally significant difference for high-frequency items (t = 1.873, df = 13, p = .083). Thus, the behavioral analysis revealed a pseudohomophone effect and a baseword frequency effect for pseudohomophones but not for pseudowords. Both effects seem to rely stronger on the processing of pseudohomophones with lowfrequency basewords. Imaging results First, images for the contrasts of interests were calculated separately for each subject. In the next step pseudohomophones and pseudowords were separately contrasted with the fixation baseline. Pseudohomophones elicited greater activation compared to fixation in posterior occipital, occipito-temporal, parietal, and temporo-parietal regions. There were also extended activations in left inferior frontal regions including the insula, pars opercularis and triangularis. Furthermore, pre- and postcentral regions and posterior cingulate and right SPL/AG were more activated by pseudohomophones compared to fixation baseline. Greater activation for pseudowords compared to fixation was found in nearly the same regions as for pseudohomophones. In contrast to pseudohomophones, pseudowords showed less extended inferior frontal and inferior and superior parietal activation (see Fig. 1). Since the aim of the study was to investigate the neural basis of pseudohomophone and baseword frequency effects the following analyses directly contrasted the activity in response to pseudohomophones vs. pseudowords and items with high vs. low baseword frequencies. Pseudohomophone effect. The whole-brain analysis revealed that no region showed greater activation for pseudowords than for pseudohomophones. In contrast, activation to pseudohomophones was greater than for pseudowords in the left hemisphere comprising the insula and the inferior orbito-frontal cortex including pars orbitalis and pars triangularis, pre-motor, middle/superior frontal gyrus (SFG), inferior/superior parietal regions and in inferior/middle temporal gyri on the right (see Table 4). Activation in the insula und pars orbitalis showed the strongest activation in response to low-frequency pseudohomophones followed by high-frequency pseudohomophones. Pseudowords produced only little activation or deactivation. In the SFG all stimulus conditions showed greater activation for low-frequency items with low-frequency pseudohomophones eliciting the strongest activation. The separately performed 2 2 ANOVAs with the beta estimates of the peak values with homophony (pseudohomophones, pseudowords) and baseword frequency (high, low) as within-subject factors for regions showing greater activation for pseudohomophones than for pseudowords revealed main effects of homophony (insula: F(1,13) = 17.85, p < .001; pars orbitalis: F(1,13) = 11.70, p = .005; SFG: F(1,13) = 17.40, p = .001; MTG: F(1,13) = 16.27, p = .001; SPL: F(1,13) = 6.96, p = .021), no main effect of frequency, and no interactions. Thus, regions showing stronger activation in response to pseudohomophones did not show significant effects of baseword frequency (see Fig. 2 and Table 4). Baseword frequency effect. To see if there were brain regions showing differential activation for items of high and low baseword frequency, we performed a whole-brain analysis for the contrasts of high- vs. low-frequency pseudohomophones and high- vs. low-frequency pseudowords. There were no regions showing an effect of baseword frequency for pseudowords. In contrast, the results showed an effect of baseword frequency for pseudohomophones. Pseudohomophones with highfrequency basewords showed the highest and pseudohomophones with low-frequency basewords Fig. 1. Activation for pseudohomophones and pseudowords compared to fixation baseline (voxel level uncorrected p < .001; extent threshold k = 5 voxels). Note. Pseudohomophones in red, pseudowords in blue, overlapping regions in pink. SFG = superior frontal gyrus, MTG = middle temporal gyrus, SPL = superior parietal lobule. 157 M. Braun et al. / Neuroscience 295 (2015) 151–163 Table 4. Brain regions showing greater activation for pseudohomophones compared to pseudowords (voxel-level uncorrected p < .001, FDR clusterlevel corrected p < 0.05) Brain region Pseudohomophones > Pseudowords Insular cortex, frontal orbital cortex Frontal pole, pars orbitalis Supplementary motor area, paracingulate gyrus, superior frontal gyrus Middle temporal and inferior temporal gyrus temporooccipital parts Lateral occipital cortex, superior division, SPL x y mm3 Zmax 5 5 46 11 44 31 73 28 4.54 4.39 4.01 3.95 58 43 3.87 z Brodmann area hem 47,13 47 8 20 L L L R 27 42 6 60 20 44 23 43 7 L 30 70 Note: x, y, z = coordinates according to MNI stereotactic space. Fig. 2. (A) Axial slices showing regions stronger activated by pseudohomophones (PSH) compared to pseudowords (PSW). (B) Signal change for high- and low-frequency pseudohomophones and pseudowords for regions higher activated for pseudohomophones. Error bars show standard error of the mean. Note: SFG = superior frontal gyrus, MTG = middle temporal gyrus, SPL = superior parietal lobule. 158 M. Braun et al. / Neuroscience 295 (2015) 151–163 showed always the lowest activation. The four clusters showing a difference in activation for pseudohomophones with high compared to pseudohomophones with low-frequency basewords comprised the left inferior and superior lateral occipital cortex including the AG, parts of the left MTG and STG and the posterior SMG. Furthermore, the right AG and SMG showed greater activation for high-frequency pseudohomophones compared to pseudohomophones with low-frequency basewords. Also the left and right MTG and STG showed greater activation for pseudohomophones with high compared to those with low-frequency basewords (see Fig. 3). To further show that the baseword frequency effect was only obtained for pseudohomophones and not for pseudowords we additionally calculated the whole-brain analyses for the contrasts of high- vs. low-frequency pseudohomophones by exclusively masking (p < .05, uncorrected) it with the contrast of high- vs. lowfrequency pseudowords. The results revealed a reliable baseword frequency effect for pseudohomophones but not for pseudowords (see Table 5). The separately performed 2 2 ANOVAs with the beta estimates of the peak values with homophony (pseudohomophones, pseudowords) and baseword frequency (high, low) as within-subject factors for regions showing greater activation for pseudohomophones with high- compared to pseudohomophones with lowfrequency basewords revealed main effects of frequency (left AG: F(1,13) = 19.63, p < .001; left MTG: F(1,13) = 11.01, p < .001; right AG: F(1,13) = 6.45, p = .025; right MTG: F(1,13) = 14.67, p < .001) and interactions of frequency and homophony (left AG: F(1,13) = 9.19, p = .001; left MTG: F(1,13) = 7.54, p = .017; right AG: F(1,13) = 8.41, p = .012; right MTG: F(1,13) = 11.30, p < .001) and no main effect of homophony. To further investigate the interaction paired ttests for the comparisons of high- and low-frequency pseudohomophones and high- and low-frequency pseudowords were calculated. The results showed that the effect of baseword frequency was significant for pseudohomophones (left AG: t = 6.921, df = 13, p < .001; rAG: t = 4.402, df = 13, p < .001; left MTG: t = 3.613, df = 13, p = .003; right MTG: t = 4.799, df = 13, p < .001) but not for pseudowords (left AG: t = 1.003, df = 13, p = .334; right AG: t = 0.402, df = 13, p = .694; right MTG: t = 1.586, df = 13, p = .137; left MTG: t = 1.437, df = 13, p = .174). DISCUSSION In the introduction, we outlined the empirical criteria for evidence of phonology triggered lexico-semantic access in silent reading i.e., the pseudohomophone effect (differences in response times and brain activation for pseudohomophones and pseudowords derived from the same basewords), and the baseword frequency effect (differences in response times and brain activation for pseudohomophones derived from basewords of different lexical frequency). Our behavioral and neuroimaging results unequivocally demonstrate both effects and thus provide evidence for phonological mediation in visual word recognition (e.g., Van Orden, 1987; Frost, 1998; Coltheart et al., 2001). Responses to pseudohomophones were 42 ms slower than to pseudowords. Furthermore, pseudohomophones showed a baseword frequency effect with slower responses (50 ms) to pseudohomophones with low- than with high-frequency basewords. In contrast, there was no baseword frequency effect for pseudowords. Our study thus is the first to demonstrate both, a pseudohomophone and a baseword frequency effect in the scanner. Imaging: pseudohomophone effects In the hemodynamic responses the pseudohomophone effect was evident in greater activation for pseudohomophones compared to pseudowords in left hemispheric regions as the insula, pars triangularis and orbitalis, SMA and SFG. Furthermore, a right inferior/ middle temporal cluster showed greater activation for pseudohomophones. Thus, pseudohomophones showed activation in inferior and superior frontal regions involved in phonological processing (e.g., Bokde et al., 2001; Jobard et al., 2003; Mechelli et al., 2007; Binder et al., 2009; Newman and Joanisse, 2011; Cattinelli et al., 2013; Pillay et al., 2014) but also in semantic processing (e.g., Fiebach et al., 2002; Ischebeck et al., 2004). Imaging: baseword frequency effects Whereas pseudowords did not show baseword frequency effects for the imaging data, the comparison of pseudohomophones with high- and low-frequency basewords revealed activation differences in bilateral IPL including the AG, posterior SMG and in bilateral STG and MTG with greater activation for pseudohomophones with low-frequency basewords. Previous research suggests that activation in MTG is involved in semantic processing (e.g., Price et al., 1997; Indefrey and Levelt, 2004; Gold et al., 2005; Vigneau et al., 2006; Booth et al., 2007; Richlan et al., 2009; Newman and Joanisse, 2011; Whitney et al., 2011; Noonan et al., 2013) but there is also evidence suggesting a role in phonological processing (e.g., Indefrey and Levelt, 2004; Bitan et al., 2005; Simos et al., 2009; Newman and Joanisse, 2011; Graves et al., 2014), or orthographic-phonological mapping (e.g., Graves et al., 2010). Many studies report that left MTG is consistently more active during the processing of words than during the processing of pseudowords (e.g., Fiebach et al., 2002; Binder et al., 2003). Interpretation of effects In the light of these findings we suggest that the greater activation for pseudohomophones in comparison to pseudowords reflects stronger phonological and semantic activation of the basewords. Since pseudohomophones and pseudowords are visually equally similar to their basewords orthography cannot explain the obtained activation differences. Thus, information signaling the presence of a word is low in case of a pseudoword (some orthographic similarity) and M. Braun et al. / Neuroscience 295 (2015) 151–163 159 Fig. 3. (A) Axial slices showing regions differentially activated by pseudohomophones (PSH) with high and low baseword frequencies. (B) Signal change for high- and low-frequency pseudohomophones and pseudowords (PSW) for regions higher activated for pseudohomophones. Error bars show standard error of the mean. Note: AG = angular gyrus, MTG = middle temporal gyrus, STG = superior temporal gyrus. high in case of a pseudohomophone (same phonology and semantics and some orthographic similarity) and must rely on phonological features. Greater activation for identifying pseudohomophones reflects greater access to and mapping with stored representations. Activation in pars orbitalis and triangularis probably signals processing for meaning, and activation in SMA (Purcell et al., 2011) and the insula (Borowsky et al., 2006) could signal processes of orthographic-phonological mapping. Activation differences for pseudohomophones with high compared to those with low frequency in the IPL, STG and MTG could signal faster and easier access to stored lexico-semantic representations for pseudohomophones with high- frequency basewords, probably due to higher resting levels. In contrast, pseudowords did not activate their highand low-frequency basewords differentially, probably because they fail to activate whole-word phonology and semantic representations. Spelling-check The aim of our study was to investigate the neural bases of pseudohomophone and baseword frequency effects in lexical decision. Current models of visual word recognition either do not predict both effects or predict the wrong direction (longer RTs in response to 160 M. Braun et al. / Neuroscience 295 (2015) 151–163 Table 5. Brain regions showing greater activation for pseudohomophones with high compared to pseudohomophones with low baseword frequency (voxel-level uncorrected p < .005, FDR cluster-level corrected p < .05) exclusively masked by the contrast of pseudowords with high > pseudowords with low baseword frequency (p > .05, uncorrected) Brain region Pseudohomophones (high) > Pseudohomophones (low) Lateral occipital cortex, inferior/superior division, angular gyrus Angular gyrus, supramarginal gyrus Middle-superior temporal gyrus and supramarginal gyrus posterior divisions, middle temporal gyrus temporooccipital part Posterior middle temporal gyrus, middle temporal gyrus temporooccipital part, posterior superior temporal gyrus x z mm3 Zmax 61 52 34 28 37 1 363 212 199 4.56 4.26 4.08 40 2 89 3.80 y Brodmann area hem 39 39/40 21 L R R 54 60 66 21 L 63 Note: x, y, z = coordinates according to MNI stereotactic space. pseudohomophones with high compared to low frequency basewords). To account for this finding it was suggested that making lexical decisions to pseudohomophones involves orthographic processing in the form of a spelling-check (Paap et al., 1982; Ziegler et al., 2001a,b). Such a spelling-check would, when successfully performed, allow for a correct nonword decision for pseudohomophones and pseudowords. Based on the current results we suggest that the pseudohomophone and the baseword frequency effect originate from different mechanisms and to rely on different brain regions. The pseudohomophone effect is probably driven by a spelling-check involving inferior and superior frontal and superior parietal brain regions. Activation in the SPL is shown to be associated with mental imagery (Ganis et al., 2004), visual attention (Wojciulik and Kanwisher, 1999; Simon et al., 2004; Gottlieb, 2007), and the spelling of words (Bitan et al., 2005, 2007; Purcell et al., 2011). Such a spelling-check probably operates in a serial fashion (e.g., Gaillard et al., 2006; Cohen et al., 2008). In contrast, the baseword frequency effect is signaled by activation differences in inferior parietal and middle temporal regions, probably driven by the need for greater allocation of attention and the suppression of ongoing processing (Binder et al., 2003) necessary to process the phonological (Indefrey and Levelt, 2004; Bitan et al., 2005; Simos et al., 2009; Newman and Joanisse, 2011; Graves et al., 2014) and semantic (Price et al., 1997; Indefrey and Levelt, 2004; Gold et al., 2005; Vigneau et al., 2006; Booth et al., 2007; Mechelli et al., 2007; Richlan et al., 2009; Newman and Joanisse, 2011; Whitney et al., 2011; Noonan et al., 2013) properties of pseudohomophones with high- and low-frequency basewords. This interpretation is in line with results showing that greater attention to task demands and higher short-term memory load is associated with reduced BOLD signals in right AG (McKiernan et al., 2003) and right temporal parietal junction (Todd et al., 2005). Model – pathways As outlined in the introduction, current models of visual word recognition cannot fully account for the pseudohomophone and baseword frequency effects. Models with implemented interactive activation processes (e.g., DRC and MROM-P), assume that higher activation in a phonological lexicon leads to longer processing times for pseudohomophones with high- compared to those with low-frequency basewords. This is because high-frequency pseudohomophones are believed to elicit stronger ‘word present’ signals and thus should show greater activation in brain regions known to process phonological and/or lexicosemantic information. However, the behavioral and imaging results of the present study are against this interpretation. Pseudohomophones with high- compared to those with low-frequency basewords were rejected faster and showed less deactivation in bilateral MTG, AG and SMG. Since pseudohomophones and pseudowords did not differ in orthographic similarity to each other and also not to their same basewords we would have expected a baseword frequency effect also for pseudowords if orthographic processing was the basis of the baseword frequency effect (Newman and Joanisse, 2011). The fact that there was a baseword frequency effect only for pseudohomophones argues against the activation of meaning via a direct orthographic route as proposed by the triangle model. Furthermore, the fact that pseudohomophones with high and low baseword frequencies activate the dorsal visual pathway with AG, SMG, and STG (McCandliss et al., 2003; Sandak et al., 2004) but also the MTG of the ventral visual pathway (Jobard et al., 2003; Sandak et al., 2004; Schurz et al., 2010) is evidence against the proposal that pseudohomophones, like other nonwords are exclusively processed by an indirect route and by converting sublexical phonology to sublexical orthography as proposed by dual-route models of visual word recognition. The current results thus speak for a close interaction of dorsal and ventral pathways in visual word recognition in the case of pseudohomophones and therefore for models assuming parallel and serial processing pathways as the DRC and the CDP+. For example, the CDP+ implements a parallel lexical pathway and a serial grapheme–phoneme conversion pathway. When reading nonwords the sublexical pathway converts a string of letters into graphemes by serial left-to-right processing, which is probably associated with activation in dorsal-parietal regions and also used by a potential spelling-check. But this serial mechanism 161 M. Braun et al. / Neuroscience 295 (2015) 151–163 does probably not account for the obtained baseword frequency effect for pseudohomophones. Recent research has shown that there are probably multiple routes used in skilled reading depending on the task and the stimuli (Jobard et al., 2011; Richardson et al., 2011; Seghier et al., 2012; Cummine et al., 2013; Graves et al., 2014). Richardson et al. (2011) identified three potential processing streams from occipital to temporal cortical areas: a ventral lexico-semantic route, a dorsal phonological route, and an intermediate route encompassing partially both ventral and dorsal routes. The results of the DCM analysis were interpreted to show that connections between the posterior inferior occipital gyrus (pIO) and the posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS) were involved in linking orthography to phonology. Connections between anterior and posterior STS were suggested to link phonology to semantics, and the ventral path from pIO over vOT to anterior STS is suggested to link orthography to semantics. Activation in pSTS was interpreted to signal phonological processing which could be influenced by early inferior occipital and late visual processing (vOT). This was hypothesized to be consistent with the idea that orthography and phonology are linked over different levels of processing, i.e., different grain sizes, as proposed by Ziegler et al. (2001a) and Ziegler and Goswami (2005, 2006). Furthermore, information between these areas are probably transmitted by the inferior longitudinal fasciculus which extends to the ventral and dorsal path and hypothesized that the posterior MTG is probably involved as an intermediate region which may relay information transferred from pIO to pSTS. Extending the hypothesis of Richardson et al. (2011) we propose that the MTG may not only relay information from early visual to phonological areas but also to be involved in the integration of orthographic, phonological and semantic information. We suggest that the MTG could be a region where multiple sources of information converge and are integrated into a coherent percept of the input in support of access to stored lexico-semantic representations. CONCLUSION In sum, the present study used pseudohomophones and pseudowords in lexical decision to investigate phonological processing in visual word recognition. Both, behavioral and neuroimaging results revealed a pseudohomophone effect as well as a baseword frequency effect for pseudohomophones but not for pseudowords. We interpret these results as evidence that reading pseudohomophones in contrast to pseudowords activate whole-word representations of their phonologically identical basewords triggering access at the lexico-semantic level. This conclusion is supported by the obtained baseword frequency effect showing activation differences for pseudohomophones with high- and low-frequency basewords. Both effects therefore support models of visual word recognition, which implement frequency sensitive representations and assume phonologically mediated access to semantic representations in visual word recognition. 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