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Urs Maurer

Researcher at The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Publications -  81
Citations -  4858

Urs Maurer is an academic researcher from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. The author has contributed to research in topics: Reading (process) & Dyslexia. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 68 publications receiving 4075 citations. Previous affiliations of Urs Maurer include Cornell University & University of Zurich.

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The face-specific N170 component is modulated by emotional facial expression

TL;DR: The face N170 response can be influenced by emotional expressions contained within facial stimuli, and the topography of this effect is consistent with the notion that fear stimuli exaggerates the N 170 response itself.
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Predictors of developmental dyslexia in European orthographies with varying complexity

TL;DR: Phoneme deletion and RAN were strong concurrent predictors of developmental dyslexia, while verbal ST/WM and general verbal abilities played a comparatively minor role, demonstrating how orthographic complexity exacerbates some symptoms of Dyslexia.
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Cognitive mechanisms underlying reading and spelling development in five European orthographies

TL;DR: This article analyzed concurrent predictions of phonological processing (awareness and memory) and rapid automatized naming (RAN) for literacy development in a rural area of the United States and found that the cognitive underpinnings of reading and spelling are universal or language/orthography-specific.
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Emerging Neurophysiological Specialization for Letter Strings

TL;DR: 6-year-old kindergarten children who could not yet read words to adult readers were compared and suggested that a critical degree of early literacy induces some immature, but fast, specialization for letter strings before word reading becomes possible.
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Fast, visual specialization for reading in English revealed by the topography of the N170 ERP response

TL;DR: Fast specialized perception related to reading experience produces an N170 modulation detectable across different EEG systems and different languages, which may suggest that ambiguity in pronunciating novel pseudowords due to inconsistency in spelling-to-sound mapping influences early stages of letter string processing.