Neural Correlates of Statistical Learning & Rapid Automatized Naming

This repository contains analysis code for the study "Functional Brain Activation During Statistical Learning is Related to Rapid Automatized Naming of Digits and Objects (But Not Letters): An fMRI Study." published in Scientific Studies of Reading

Citation:

> Prem, P., Boadu, A., Saju, S., Nisbet, K., & Cummine, J. (2026). Functional Brain Activation During Statistical Learning is Related to Rapid Automatized Naming of Digits and Objects (But Not Letters): An fMRI Study. Scientific Studies of Reading. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2026.2700424

In this repo

Included is the behavioral analysis code analysis/behavioral/VSL_RAN_analysis.Rmd and the produced visuals in analysis/figures/.

The fMRI (SPM) preprocessing and first-/second-level modeling scripts are not included here. The full imaging methods (acquisition parameters, preprocessing pipeline, GLM specification, and group-level statistics) are described in the Methods section of the paper.

Requirements

• R (tested with R 4.x)
• tidyverse
• rmarkdown

install.packages(c("tidyverse", "rmarkdown"))

Data availability

Raw behavioral and imaging data are not publicly available due to ethical restrictions of the host institution (University of Alberta REB, Pro00114340), but may be made available upon reasonable request to the corresponding author, Jacqueline Cummine (jcummine@ualberta.ca).

License

MIT — see LICENSE.