Alexandra Reis|Karl Magnus Petersson|Alexandre Castro-Caldas|Martin Ingvar
Formal Schooling Influences Two- but Not Three-Dimensional Naming Skills
Karolinska Institutet|University of Algarve|Karolinska Institutet|Hospital de Santa Maria|Karolinska Institutet
modulatory influence literacy cognitive system human brain indicated behavioral neuroanatomic functional neuroimaging studies study explored functional consequences formal education acquisition alphabetic written language two threedimensional visual naming results show illiterate subjects perform significantly worse immediate naming twodimensional representations common everyday objects compared literate subjects terms accuracy reaction times contrast significant difference subjects named corresponding real objects results suggest formal education learning read write modulate cognitive process involved processing two threedimensional representations common everyday objects results reaction time error pattern analyses interpreted indicating major influence literacy affects visual system interaction visual language systems suggest visual system wide sense andor interface visual language system differently formatted literate illiterate subjects words hypothesize pattern interactions functionalanatomical networks subserving visual naming interactions within visual language processing networks differ literate illiterate subjects