Position Coding Research Articles

Backlash and Judicial Restraint: Evidence from the European Court of Human Rights

AbstractHow does backlash from consolidated democracies affect the behavior of liberal international institutions? We argue that liberal international institutions have incentives to appease their democratic critics. Liberal institutions rely on democratic support for their continued effectiveness and can accommodate democratic critics at a lower legitimacy cost than non-democratic challengers. We examine this theory in the context of the European Court of Human Rights using a new dataset of rulings until 2019 and a coding of government positions during multiple reform conferences. Combining matching and a difference-in-differences design, we find strong evidence that the Court exercises restraint towards consolidated democracies that have criticized the Court in multilateral reform conferences by rendering fewer violation judgments against these states. We find some evidence that governments have also recently appointed more deferential judges. The findings suggest that backlash can affect liberal international institutions even without membership exit.

Sex differences in implicit processing of allocentric relationships between objects and location in a Simon task.

Simon tasks reveal implicit processing conflicts that arise when the abstract coding of stimulus position is incongruent with coding for location of the output response. Participants were tested with two versions of a Simon task in a counterbalanced order to examine a potential female bias for attending to object characteristics versus object location. Both tasks used a triangle pointing to the left or right. A simple version presented the triangle in an inner or outer position relative to central fixation. A more complex version included a frame surrounding the inner-outer triangle presentation area in order to introduce additional visual elements for left/right visual processing. When the No Frame version was the first presented, there were no sex differences in the Simon effect in either version, which is consistent with results from other studies that did not provide feedback regarding accuracy. When the initial test was the Frame version, we observed a reverse Simon effect for incongruent triangles presented in the left inner position, with females faster than males to identify the incongruent condition versus the congruent (-59 vs -5 msec). In the No Frame condition that followed, females showed a carryover effect from the previous Frame condition, exhibiting positive Simon effects that were two fold larger than males for identifying incongruent stimuli presented in the left and right outer positions. Similar to previous Simon studies, females showed longer overall reaction times than males (~15%). The difference was not related to the Simon effect and is also found in other types of tasks involving early visual processing of objects with location. Based on sex differences in the Simon effect that emerged following initial experience of the triangle adjoining the frame, the present results support a female bias toward broader integration of objects within the context of location.

Immersive virtual reality reveals that visuo-proprioceptive discrepancy enlarges the hand-centred peripersonal space

Vision and proprioception, informing the system about the body position in space, seem crucial in defining the boundary of the peripersonal space (PPS). What happens to the PPS representation when a conflict between vision and proprioception arises? We capitalize on the Immersive Virtual Reality to dissociate vision and proprioception by presenting the participants' 3D hand image in congruent/incongruent positions with respect to the participants’ real hand. To measure the hand-centred PPS, we exploit multisensory integration occurring when visual stimuli are delivered simultaneously with tactile stimuli applied to a body district; i.e., visual enhancement of touch (VET). Participants are instructed to respond to tactile stimuli while ignoring visual stimuli (red LED), which can appear either near to or far from the hand receiving tactile (electrical) stimuli. The results show that, when vision and proprioception are congruent (i.e., real and virtual hand coincide), a space-dependent modulation of the VET effect occurs (with faster responses when visual stimuli are near to than far from the stimulated hand). Contrarily, when vision and proprioception are incongruent (i.e., a discrepancy between real and virtual hand is present), a comparable VET effect is observed when visual stimuli occur near to the real hand and when they occur far from it, but close to the virtual hand. These findings, also confirmed by the independent estimate of a Bayesian Causal Inference model, suggest that, when the visuo-proprioceptive discrepancy makes the coding of the hand position less precise, the hand-centred PPS is enlarged, likely to optimize reactions to external events.

Validation of discharge diagnosis coding for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in an Italian regional healthcare database

Objectives: (a) to estimate the accuracy of International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) code for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in the Hospital Discharge Database (HDD) of the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia; (b) to identify the predictors of a true positive ALS code; (c) to compare incident and prevalent cases obtained from HDD with those identified in a retrospective population-based study. Methods: Records of all patients discharged 2010–2014 with an ICD-9-CM code for ALS and other motor neuron diseases were extracted from the HDD. For each record, all the available clinical documentation was evaluated to confirm or reject the diagnosis of ALS. ALS incident and prevalent cases were identified. Validity measures were calculated both overall and stratified by patient and hospitalization characteristics. Adjusted odds ratio (aOR), with 95% confidence interval (95%CI), of a true positive code was estimated using unconditional logistic regression. Results: ALS code had sensitivity 92.9%, specificity 75.3%, positive predictive value (PPV) 92.3%, and negative predictive value (NPV) 76.8%. A true positive ALS code was predicted by concurrent codes for respiratory interventions (aOR: 3.82; 95%CI: 2.09–6.99), primary position code (2.78; 1.68–4.62), non-programed hospitalization (2.06; 1.18–3.61), male patient (1.56; 1.06–2.29), and hospitalization length <14 days (1.42; 1.07–2.84). Two hundred and thirty-six prevalent and 187 incident cases were identified, 84% of those detected in the population-based study. Conclusion: ALS code shows very good accuracy and identifies a high percentage of true positive, incident and prevalent cases, but additional sources and an algorithm based on selected variables may further improve case identification.

Tissue-Scale Mechanical Coupling Reduces Morphogenetic Noise to Ensure Precision during Epithelial Folding.

Morphological constancy is universal in developing systems. It is unclear whether precise morphogenesis stems from faithful mechanical interpretation of gene expression patterns. We investigate the formation of the cephalic furrow, an epithelial fold that is precisely positioned with a linear morphology. Fold initiation is specified by a precise genetic code with single-cell row resolution. This positional code activates and spatially confines lateral myosin contractility to induce folding. However, 20% of initiating cells are mis-specified because of fluctuating myosin intensities at the cellular level. Nevertheless, the furrow remains linearly aligned. We find that lateral myosin is planar polarized, integrating contractile membrane interfaces into supracellular "ribbons." Local reduction of mechanical coupling at the "ribbons" using optogenetics decreases furrow linearity. Furthermore, 3D vertex modeling indicates that polarized, interconnected contractility confers morphological robustness against noise. Thus, tissue-scale mechanical coupling functions as a denoising mechanism to ensure morphogenetic precision despite noisy decoding of positional information.

An uncertainty principle for neural coding: Conjugate representations of position and velocity are mapped onto firing rates and co-firing rates of neural spike trains.

The hippocampal system contains neural populations that encode an animal's position and velocity as it navigates through space. Here, we show that such populations can embed two codes within their spike trains: a firing rate code () conveyed by within‐cell spike intervals, and a co‐firing rate code (R˙) conveyed by between‐cell spike intervals. These two codes behave as conjugates of one another, obeying an analog of the uncertainty principle from physics: information conveyed in comes at the expense of information in R˙, and vice versa. An exception to this trade‐off occurs when spike trains encode a pair of conjugate variables, such as position and velocity, which do not compete for capacity across and R˙. To illustrate this, we describe two biologically inspired methods for decoding and R˙, referred to as sigma and sigma‐chi decoding, respectively. Simulations of head direction and grid cells show that if firing rates are tuned for position (but not velocity), then position is recovered by sigma decoding, whereas velocity is recovered by sigma‐chi decoding. Conversely, simulations of oscillatory interference among theta‐modulated “speed cells” show that if co‐firing rates are tuned for position (but not velocity), then position is recovered by sigma‐chi decoding, whereas velocity is recovered by sigma decoding. Between these two extremes, information about both variables can be distributed across both channels, and partially recovered by both decoders. These results suggest that populations with different spatial and temporal tuning properties—such as speed versus grid cells—might not encode different information, but rather, distribute similar information about position and velocity in different ways across and R˙. Such conjugate coding of position and velocity may influence how hippocampal populations are interconnected to form functional circuits, and how biological neurons integrate their inputs to decode information from firing rates and spike correlations.

ІНФОРМАЦІЙНІ ПАРАМЕТРИ КОДОВИХ АНСАМБЛІВ, СИНТЕОВАНИХ НА ОСНОВІ ОДНОГО МОДУЛЯ

The advantages of digital methods of processing, displaying, storing and transmitting information. Currently, various conversion methods and efficient coding methods are used to increase the speed of information transfer, maintain high accuracy and provide the required latent accuracy. In particular, timer (temporary) signal constructions, which, in comparison with other coding methods, for example, positional (bitwise) coding, can reduce costs by more than two times. In the work, the information parameters of the code ensembles synthesized at a constant duration "m" are evaluated. Determined the conditions for the formation of a code ensemble and calculate the number of code dictionary implementations on a segment of a nyquist elements.In order to use the communication channel efficiently, the proposed increase in the entropy of the transmitted ensemble is due to the use of code sets with different number of information segments and at a constant length of the code word. A significant increase in the weight of the synthesized ensemble ensured an increase in the value of the module А0 =19 integer times K є 8:18 .The maximum values of the module are calculated in which the greatest number of code words is synthesized: At: КА0 =13, Np=8; КА0 =14, Np=10 КА0 =15, Np=15; КА0 =17, Np=16 КА0 =18, Np=10; КА0 =19, Np=6 КА0 =20, Np=1 For these КА0 values, the entropy value is H=3.269, which is less than the entropy of the Russian text H=4.35. In accordance with code words that satisfy the conditions of the quality equation. The methods and algorithms of reliable reception of code words under the influence of interference in the channel used were analyzed.Studies and calculations have shown that the use of temporary signal structures synthesized on the basis of a onemodule can significantly reduce the value of entropy for the transmission of Russian text.

МЕТОДЫ ФОРМИРОВАНИЯ ШУМОПОДОБНЫХ ТАЙМЕРНЫХ СИГНАЛОВ НА ОСНОВЕ ПСЕВДОСЛУЧАЙНОЙ ПЕРЕСТРОЙКИ РАБОЧЕЙ ЧАСТОТЫ

Among the most important scientific problems, which have been given much attention recently, is the research of the properties and methods of forming complex noise-like signals to increase the interference protection of radio communication systems, operating in the conditions of electronic conflict. Such signals have inherent properties that help solve problems of improving noise immunity, secrecy transmission and providing electromagnetic compatibility of various radio communication systems. For the synthesis task of noise-like signals, it is proposed to use timer signal constructions in combination with various methods of spectrum expansion based on random restructuring of the operating frequency. The expediency of using timer signals is justified by their properties which increase the noise immunity and secrecy of transmission. However, unlike the position codes, they have a more difficult structure for constructing signal constructions. The primary parameters for constructing timer signals allow the formation of the various sets of signal constructions. Such variational possibilities of constructing timer signals substantially increase the potential structural secrecy of the transmission. Also, based on timer signals, noise-immunity coding is implemented without additional test elements. In the article was carried out the analyses of methods synthesis based on random rebuild operating frequency, taking into account the non-positional timer signals.

Preparation of encoded bar-like core-shell microparticles on a microfluidic chip

This work presented a microfluidic multi-phase droplet system for preparing encoded bar-like core-shell microparticles. The integration of T-junction and flow-focusing junction on one microfluidic chip was designed to form water-in-oil-in-water double emulsions. And the double emulsions were used as templates to fabricate the encoded bar-like core-shell particles on the chip. The encoded particles were of small and uniform size. The core droplets were filled with different quantum dots and dyes for providing encoding information, and the outer oil phase droplets of trimethylolpropane ethoxylate triacrylate were solidified into the shell of the encoded particles for confining the core droplets in them and supplying the surface for capturing targets. The sequence of the core droplets could be confined by the configuration of the micro-channels when the core droplets were encapsulated in the outer droplets. Thus a new multi-mode encoding method was defined by combining dual-optical encoding and graphical encoding. Different quantum dots provided the wavelength code and the intensity code, multiple dyes provided the color code, and the single order of core droplets in the shell offered the position code. Compared with the conventional encoding methods, this approach increases the encoding number by hundred times, and has great potential for high-throughput multiplexed analysis.

METHOD OF TRANSFORMANT CODE DESCRIPTION CODING BASED ON INDEPENDENT CODE STRUCTURES IN THE TECHNOLOGY OF THE VIDEO-STREAM INTENSITY CONTROL

The article provides a general description of the approach to building a code representation of video stream fragments, namely, a DCT transformer. Such code representation is a set of codograms of individual bit planes of transformants. In turn, a codogram of each bit plane is constructed using the detection of the lengths of a series of binary elements within each of them. Detection of a series of binary elements within the proposed method is in the direction of the rows. The resulting bitmap codes are formed on the basis of non-equilibrium position codes. Unlike traditional coding techniques that aim at reducing probabilistic statistical redundancy, in this case, the structural redundancy of the bit description of video stream frame transforms is eliminated. In this case, the code description of each of the transformants is formed separately. In other words, within the code structures, the transformants of each of the codograms of its bit planes are independent of each other. That is, with the exception of one or more codograms that carry a description of one or another number of bit planes, no transformants occur on the receiving side of the destruction of the entire code description. That is, the generated code description allows you to repair the transformant on the receiving side with some errors. It turns out that such manipulation of the number of codograms that were initially used to describe the transform of the video stream frame allows to change the number of bits required for its code description. Thus, in this way, there is actually an additional reduction in the information intensity of the transmitted data, in addition to the reduction that is achieved by actually translating the transformant description to the appearance of the position code. In turn, this makes it possible to use the encoding method in question as a basis for video intensity management technology. The developed method does not require significant computing power for its effective functioning, since the construction of the bit description code requires less hardware resources by reducing the dynamic range of computation compared to component coding.

Shaping the precision of letter position coding by varying properties of a writing system

ABSTRACTThere is substantial debate around the nature of letter position coding in reading. Research on a variety of Indo-European languages suggests uncertainty in position coding; for example, readers perceive transposed-letter stimuli (jugde) as similar to their base words (judge). However, these effects are not apparent for all languages. We developed a powerful new method to delineate how specific properties of a writing system shape the representation of letter position. Two groups of 24 adults learned to read novel words printed in artificial scripts. One group learned a dense orthography (i.e. with many anagrams) and one group learned a sparse orthography (i.e. no anagrams). Following four days of training, participants showed a larger transposed-letter effect in the sparse orthography than in the dense orthography. These results challenge existing models of orthographic processing in reading, and support the claim that orthographic representations are shaped by the nature of the writing system.

Evidence for allocentric boundary and goal direction information in the human entorhinal cortex and subiculum

In rodents, cells in the medial entorhinal cortex (EC) and subiculum code for the allocentric direction to environment boundaries, which is an important prerequisite for accurate positional coding. Although in humans boundary-related signals have been reported, there is no evidence that they contain allocentric direction information. Furthermore, it has not been possible to separate boundary versus goal direction signals in the EC/subiculum. Here, to address these questions, we had participants learn a virtual environment containing four unique boundaries. Participants then underwent fMRI scanning where they made judgements about the allocentric direction of a cue object. Using multivariate decoding, we found information regarding allocentric boundary direction in posterior EC and subiculum, whereas allocentric goal direction was decodable from anterior EC and subiculum. These data provide the first evidence of allocentric boundary coding in humans, and are consistent with recent conceptualisations of a division of labour within the EC.

Absolute Planar Position and Full Angle Orientation Sensor Using a 2-D Color-Coded Binary Scale

A multi-axis position sensor using a 2-D color-coded binary scale (CCBS) is proposed for measuring absolute 2-D planar position and orientation in a full angle range. Since a color-encoding method provides higher information density with multiple color channels, two absolute position codes and incremental scale patterns could be encoded in the 2-D CCBS using three color channels. Therefore, the absolute position value was obtained with high efficiency and robustness by processing three color channel images of the CCBS separately, and the measurement range of orientation was also extended to 360° using the relationship of two absolute position codes. The proposed method was implemented as a sensor module composed of an imaging lens, a board-level camera, and the CCBS on a flat panel display. The performance of the prototype sensor was evaluated by comparing with a laser interferometer and an angle encoder. The position sensor could measure 0.5-μm linear and 0.005° angular displacements clearly. The repeatability was smaller than 0.13 μm,, but the positional error of the CCBS increased the measurement errors up to 3.1 μm when the sensor was evaluated over 24 mm $\times24$ mm range. The full angle orientation was measured successfully with the accuracy of 0.02°.

Effects of adult aging on letter position coding in reading: Evidence from eye movements.

It is well-established that young adults encode letter position flexibly during natural reading. However, given the visual changes that occur with normal aging, it is important to establish whether letter position coding is equivalent across adulthood. In 2 experiments, young (18–25 years) and older (65+ years) adults’ were recorded while reading sentences with words containing transposed adjacent letters. Transpositions occurred at beginning (rpoblem), internal (porblem), or end (problme) locations in words. In Experiment 1, these transpositions were present throughout reading. By comparison, Experiment 2 used a gaze-contingent paradigm such that once the reader’s gaze moved past a word containing a transposition, this word was shown correctly and did not subsequently change. Both age groups showed normal levels of comprehension for text including words with transposed letters. The pattern of letter transposition effects on eye movements was similar for the young and older adults, with greater increases in reading times when external relative to internal letters were transposed. In Experiment 1, however, effects of word beginning transpositions during rereading were larger for the older adults. In Experiment 2 there were no interactions, confirming that letter position coding is similar for both age groups at least during first-pass processing of words. These findings show that flexibility in letter position encoding during the initial processing of words is preserved across adulthood, although the interaction effect in rereading in Experiment 1 also suggests that older readers may use more stringent postlexical verification processes, for which the accuracy of word beginning letters is especially important.

Emotion regulation via visual avoidance: Insights from neurological patients

Visual avoidance of unpleasant stimuli (i.e., strategic positioning of eyes, head and torso away from an environmental stimulus) is a common attentional control behavior that may down-regulate emotion by reducing visual input. Despite its ubiquity, relatively little is known about how visual avoidance is affected by neurological diseases that impact neural circuits involved in emotional functioning. We examined visual avoidance in 56 behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) patients, 43 Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients, and 34 healthy controls. Participants came to our laboratory and viewed an extremely disgusting film clip while visual avoidance was measured using behavioral coding of head, body, and eye position. Controlling for differences in cognitive functioning, bvFTD patients were less likely to engage in visual avoidance behaviors than both AD patients and healthy controls. Additional analyses revealed that diminished visual avoidance in this task was associated with lower levels of real-world emotion regulation but not with emotion reactivity as reported by the primary caregiver.

Tissue-Scale Mechanical Coupling Reduces Morphogenetic Noise to Ensure Precision During Epithelial Folding

Morphological constancy is universal in developing systems. It is unclear whether precise morphogenesis stems from faithful mechanical interpretation of gene expression patterns. We investigate the formation of the cephalic furrow, an epithelial fold that is precisely positioned with a linear morphology. Fold initiation is specified by a precise genetic code with single-cell row resolution. This positional code activates and spatially confines lateral myosin contractility to induce folding. However, 20% of initiating cells are mis-specified due to fluctuating myosin intensities at the cellular level. Nevertheless the furrow remains linearly aligned. We find that lateral myosin is planar polarized, integrating contractile membrane interfaces into supracellular “ribbons.” Local reduction of mechanical coupling at the “ribbons” using optogenetics decreases furrow linearity. Furthermore, 3D vertex modelling indicates that polarized, interconnected contractility confers morphological robustness against noise. Thus, tissue-scale mechanical coupling functions as a denoising mechanism to ensure morphogenetic precision despite noisy decoding of positional information.

An electrophysiological investigation of orthographic spatial integration in reading

During reading, word recognition speed is influenced by the amount of orthographic overlap with surrounding words. The nature of this phenomenon is not understood: some theories attribute it to low-level visual operations (i.e., parafoveal feature detectors influencing foveal letter detectors), whereas other theories assume that orthographic processing (i.e., letter position coding and word activation) occurs across multiple words in parallel. To arbitrate between these theories, we used electroencephalography to reveal the time course of orthographic spatial integration in a lexical decision task. Foveal target words were flanked on each side by parafoveal words, manipulated across three conditions: repetition flankers (e.g. rock rock rock), unrelated flankers (step rock step) and a no-flanker condition. Linear mixed-effect models were constructed to analyze EEG data on a trial-by-trial basis. Word recognition was worse in the unrelated flanker condition than in the repetition and no-flanker conditions. This behavioral pattern was accompanied by increased negativity in the N250 and N400 windows, associated with the activation of sub-lexical and lexico-semantic representations, respectively. Crucially, the absence of effects prior to 200 ms post-stimulus onset provides evidence against the involvement of low-level visual processes. We conclude that orthographic spatial integration is driven by parallel processing of multiple words, which leads to the activation of a larger set of sub-lexical nodes and more difficult processing at the lexical level when those words are orthographically unrelated.

Co-operation of long-term and working memory representations in simultaneous chaining by rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta).

We studied the memory representations that control execution of action sequences by training rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) to touch sets of five images in a predetermined arbitrary order (simultaneous chaining). In Experiment 1, we found that this training resulted in mental representations of ordinal position rather than learning associative chains, replicating the work of others. We conducted novel analyses of performance on probe tests consisting of two images "derived" from the full five-image lists (i.e., test B, D from list A→B→C→D→E). We found a "first item effect" such that monkeys responded most quickly to images that occurred early in the list in which they had been learned, indicating that monkeys covertly execute known lists mentally until an image on the screen matches the one stored in memory. Monkeys also made an ordinal comparison of the two images presented at test based on long-term memory of positional information, resulting in a "symbolic distance effect." Experiment 2 indicated that ordinal representations were based on absolute, rather than on relative, positional information because subjects did not link two lists into one large list after linking training, unlike what occurs in transitive inference. We further examined the contents of working memory during list execution in Experiments 3 and 4 and found evidence for a prospective, rather than a retrospective, coding of position in the lists. These results indicate that serial expertise in simultaneous chaining results in robust absolute ordinal coding in long-term memory, with rapidly updating prospective coding of position in working memory during list execution.

Coherent Coding of Spatial Position Mediated by Theta Oscillations in the Hippocampus and Prefrontal Cortex.

Interactions between the hippocampus (area CA1) and prefrontal cortex (PFC) are crucial for memory-guided behavior. Theta oscillations (∼8 Hz) underlie a key physiological mechanism for mediating these coordinated interactions, and theta oscillatory coherence and phase-locked spiking in the two regions have been shown to be important for spatial memory. Hippocampal place-cell activity associated with theta oscillations encodes spatial position during behavior, and theta phase-associated spiking is known to further mediate a temporal code for space within CA1 place fields. Although prefrontal neurons are prominently phase-locked to hippocampal theta oscillations in spatial memory tasks, whether and how theta oscillations mediate processing of spatial information across these networks remains unclear. Here, we addressed these questions using simultaneous recordings of dorsal CA1-PFC ensembles and population decoding analyses in male rats performing a continuous spatial working memory task known to require hippocampal-prefrontal interactions. We found that in addition to CA1, population activity in PFC can also encode the animal's current spatial position on a theta-cycle timescale during memory-guided behavior. Coding of spatial position was coherent for CA1 and PFC ensembles, exhibiting correlated position representations within theta cycles. In addition, incorporating theta-phase information during decoding to account for theta-phase associated spiking resulted in a significant improvement in the accuracy of prefrontal spatial representations, similar to concurrent CA1 representations. These findings indicate a theta-oscillation-mediated mechanism of temporal coordination for shared processing and communication of spatial information across the two networks during spatial memory-guided behavior.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Theta oscillation- (∼8 Hz) mediated interactions between the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex are known to be important for spatial memory. Hippocampal place-cell activity associated with theta oscillations underlies a rate and temporal code for spatial position, but it is not known whether these oscillations mediate simultaneous coding of spatial information in hippocampal-prefrontal networks. Here, we found that population activity in prefrontal cortex encodes animals' current position coherently with hippocampal populations on a theta-cycle timescale. Further we found that theta phase-associated spiking significantly improves prefrontal coding of spatial position, in parallel with hippocampal coding. Our findings establish that theta oscillations mediate a temporal coordination mechanism for coherent coding of spatial position in hippocampal-prefrontal networks during memory-guided behavior.

No flexibility in letter position coding in Korean.

Substantial research across Indo-European languages suggests that readers display a degree of uncertainty in letter position coding. For example, readers perceive transposed-letter stimuli, such as jugde, as similar to their base words (e.g., judge). However, tolerance to disruptions of letter order is not apparent in all languages, suggesting that critical aspects of the writing system may shape the nature of position coding. We investigated readers' tolerance to these disruptions in Korean, a writing system characterized by a high degree of orthographic confusability. Results of three Korean masked priming experiments revealed robust identity priming effects, but no indication of priming due to shared letters or syllables in different positions. Two further masked priming experiments revealed where the Korean findings deviate from English. These results support the claim that the nature of the writing system influences the precision of orthographic representations used in reading. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).