ArticleThe European journal of neuroscience2025
New Insights Into Slow Reading: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Analyses of Visual Word Recognition in Arabic.
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- The Arabic Lexicon Project: Lexical decision data for 10,000 Modern Standard Arabic words.Behavior research methods · 2026Article
- New Insights Into Slow Reading: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Analyses of Visual Word Recognition in Arabic.The European journal of neuroscience · 2025Article
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Abstract
This study investigated the behavioral and electrophysiological differences between fast and slow readers among Arabic-speaking university students. We employed a classification methodology similar to that used in the rate versus accuracy approach of dyslexia subtyping. Fifty-five native Arabic-speaking university students participated in a lexical decision task involving high-frequency (HF) words, low-frequency (LF) words, and pseudowords (PWs). Behavioral and event-related potentials (ERPs) data were collected during the task. Participants were categorized as fast or slow readers based on their mean reaction time (RT) across all conditions, with those with RTs below the 65th percentile classified as fast readers and those with RTs above the 75th percentile classified as slow readers. Behaviorally, we observed a frequency effect, with faster RTs for HF words compared to LF words and PWs. At the electrophysiological level, we found a reader effect on the latency of the early ERP components (N170, P2, N2, and P3), with earlier peak latencies for fast readers. Additionally, the P600 component showed a larger amplitude and earlier peak for HF words compared to LF words and PWs. Fast readers exhibited a larger P600 amplitude and an earlier P600 peak for HF words compared to slow readers. These findings provide novel insights into word recognition processes in Arabic-speaking adults, shedding light on the neural mechanisms underlying differences between fast and slow readers. The results are discussed in relation to previous research on word recognition in both typical and dyslexic readers.
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