Due to sluggishness of the BOLD-response, fMRI is not ideal for establishing if sensorimotor cortex responses in word comprehension at different ages result from slow, deliberate word meaning processing or the rapid automatic process reported for skilled adult readers (Hauk et al., 2008; Kiefer et al., 2008).
In the present study, we investigated the spatiotemporal dynamics of rapid automatic lexical processing in aphasia patients, before and after two weeks of ILAT.
Two prominent theories of word recognition, the local combination detector model (LCD; Dehaene et al. 2005; Dehaene and Cohen 2011) and the interactive account (IA; Price and Devlin 2003; Price and Devlin 2011), critically differ on the question of whether word processing in the left ventral occipitotemporal cortex (vOT) is supported by rapid, automatic feedback from higher-order language areas.
The high sensitivity and specificity, ease of operation procedures, and the automatic processing of measured data make the developed assay a useful tool for the rapid and accurate genotyping of M. tuberculosis.
Furthermore, following the short intensive therapy programme there was an increase in the left-lateralisation of fronto-temporal ultra-rapid neurophysiological brain responses to passively heard words compared to pseudowords, indicating cortical changes in the automatic processing of meaningful lexical stimuli.
By contrast, automatic detection, or automatic processing, operates in long-term memory and is dependent upon extensive learning.
Programmers employ scraping to gain access to information ordinarily off limits to automatic processing.
This description is associated with automatic processing of acoustic features.
"Fast" (i.e., implicit) processing is relatively automatic; "slow" (i.e., explicit) processing is relatively controlled and can override automatic processing.
Automatic processing of a natural language, very often requires the implementation of automatic grapheme-to-phoneme conversion.
