Orthographic Processing in Baboons (Papio papio) - 1 views
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Our results demonstrate that basic orthographic processing skills can be acquired in the absence of preexisting linguistic representations.
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The computation of letter identities and their relative positions is referred to as orthographic processing, and there is a large consensus today that such processing represents the first “language-specific” stage of the reading process that follows the operations involved in the control of eye movements (bringing words into the focus of central vision) and early visual processing (enabling visual feature extraction; Fig. 1A) (1–4). In the present study, we examined whether the ability to efficiently process orthographic information can operate in the absence of prior linguistic knowledge.
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Orthographic processing lies at the interface between the visual processing and the linguistic processing involved in written language comprehension.
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