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BRAIN RESEARCH
卷 1780, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2022.147812
关键词
Repetition suppression; VWFA; Visual word recognition; Predictive coding
资金
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [KO3918/5-1]
- China Scholarship Council (CSC) scholarship [201808330399]
A study found that the probability of stimulus repetition significantly affects the degree of repetition suppression. This effect is evident for participants with stimuli from their native language, but only affects non-native participants for non-native stimuli.
The magnitude of repetition suppression (RS), measured by fMRI, is modulated by the probability of repetitions (P(rep)) for various sensory stimulus categories. It has been suggested that for visually presented simple letters this P(rep) effect depends on the prior practices of the participants with the stimuli. Here we tested further if previous experiences affect the neural mechanisms of RS, leading to the modulatory effects of stimulus P(rep), for more complex lexical stimuli as well. We measured the BOLD signal in the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA) of native Chinese and German participants and estimated the P(rep) effects for Chinese characters and German words. The results showed a significant P(rep) effect for stimuli of the mother tongue in both participant groups. Interestingly, Chinese participants, learning German as a second language, also showed a significant P(rep) modulation of RS for German words while the German participants who had no prior experiences with the Chinese characters showed no such effects. Our findings suggest that P(rep) effects on RS are manifest for visual word processing as well, but only for words of a language with which participants are highly familiar. These results support further the idea that predictive processes, estimated by P(rep) modulations of RS, require prior experiences.
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