Neural Signatures of Speed and Regular Reading: A Machine Learning and Explainable AI (XAI) Study of Sinhalese and Japanese
Thishuli Walpola, Namal Rathnayake, Hoang Ngoc Thanh, Niluka Dilhani, Atsushi Senoo
Reading speed is hypothesized to have distinct neural signatures across orthographically diverse languages, yet cross-linguistic evidence remains limited. We investigated this by classifying speed readers versus regular readers among Sinhalese and Japanese adults (n=142) using ta…