Lexical brain responses in 10-year-old children are impaired in dyslexia: An FPVS-EEG study.

Dyslexia; FPVS oddball paradigm; Orthographic regularity; Visual print processing; Humans; Child; Electroencephalography; Female; Male; Reading; Photic Stimulation; Dyslexia/physiopathology; Brain/physiopathology; Pattern Recognition, Visual/physiology; Brain; Pattern Recognition, Visual; Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology; Experimental and Cognitive Psychology; Developmental and Educational Psychology; Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous); Cognitive Neuroscience

Abstract :

[en] The developmental origin of the left occipitotemporal cortex specialization for automatic lexical access from vision remains unclear. Here we investigated cortical specialization for print processing in children with or without dyslexia, focusing on two distinct tuning levels: coarse-grained tuning for letter/symbol discrimination, and fine-grained tuning for word/pseudoword discrimination. 10-year-old typical readers (n = 24) and children with dyslexia (n = 14) were tested with electroencephalography (EEG) and fast periodic visual stimulation (FPVS), viewing streams of stimuli at a relatively fast rate (6 Hz) for 40 s with deviant categories every 5 items (at 6 Hz/5 = 1.2 Hz). Deviant words or pseudowords among pseudo-font strings elicited clear coarse ocicpito-temporal discrimination responses significantly larger over the left than the right hemisphere (LH), numerically larger in typical readers. Unlike in adults, these responses were unaffected by lexicality. Deviant regular or irregular words among matched pseudowords generated a finer-grained word-selective response only over the LH. While irregular words elicited similar brain responses in both groups, regular words were not discriminated from pseudowords in children with dyslexia. These results demonstrate the sensitivity of FPVS-EEG to implicitly detect lexical neural responses in 10 years old children within a few minutes, as well as atypical lexical processing in children with dyslexia.

Disciplines :

Neurosciences & behavior

Author, co-author :

GIGLEUX, Claire ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (DBCS) > Cognitive Science and Assessment

van de Walle de Ghelcke, Alice; Psychological Sciences Research Institute (IPSY), Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

SCHILTZ, Christine ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (DBCS) > Cognitive Science and Assessment

ROSSION, Bruno ; University of Luxembourg ; Université de Lorraine, CNRS, IMoPA, F-54000 Nancy, France, Université de Lorraine, CHRU-Nancy, Service de Neurologie, Nancy, France

LOCHY, Aliette ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (DBCS) > Cognitive Science and Assessment

External co-authors :

yes

Language :

English

Title :

Lexical brain responses in 10-year-old children are impaired in dyslexia: An FPVS-EEG study.

Publication date :

April 2026

Journal title :

Brain and Cognition

ISSN :

0278-2626

eISSN :

1090-2147

Publisher :

Academic Press Inc., United States

Volume :

194

Pages :

106394

Peer reviewed :

Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

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https://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0278262626000011?httpAccept=text/xml

Funders :

Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRS
National Research Fund
National Research Fund

Funding text :

We warmly thank all participants of the study, the schools and the therapists that helped us recruit and test children. This work has been funded by the FNR ( Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg , C21/SC/16241557/READINGBRAIN). CG is funded by the FNR ( FNR-AFR individual grant 18868448 ). AVDW was funded by the Fund for Human Sciences Research of Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS- FRESH 31450987 ).

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