Word length effect in early reading and in developmental dyslexia.

abstract：:We investigated word-level reading circuits in skilled deaf readers (N=14; mean reading age=19.5years) and less skilled deaf readers (N=14; mean reading age=12years) who were all highly proficient users of American Sign Language. During fMRI scanning, participants performed a semantic decision (concrete concept?), a p...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Emmorey K,McCullough S,Weisberg J

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Semantic category effects, such as difficulties in naming animate things relative to inanimate objects, have been explained in terms of the relative weightings of perceptual and functional features within the semantic representations of these concepts. We argue that grammatical category deficits, such as difficulties ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Bird H,Howard D,Franklin S

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article evaluates two theoretical accounts of how sarcasm is understood; the traditional model, which asserts that listeners derive a counterfactual inference from the sarcastic comment, and relevance theory, which asserts that listeners recognize sarcasm as a scornful echo of a previous assertion. Evidence from ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： McDonald S

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies have been conducted to measure monaural azimuthal sound localization performance with different sounds varying in frequency and complexity, but few have used linguistic stimuli. The present experimental design used subjects' first names in a monaural azimuthal localization task. Analysis of response accur...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Muller BS,Bovet P

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A speculative neuronal template, equivalent to canonical syllable forms and independent of segmental representations, is offered to help account for (1) the inviolate nature of phonotactic constraints in aphasic speech output, and (2) left hemisphere specialization for speech sound access and output. The model, which ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Sussman HM

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of the present research was to provide direct evidence for the cross-language interaction of phonologies at the sub-lexical level by using the masked onset priming paradigm. More specifically, we investigated whether there is a cross-language masked onset priming effect (MOPE) with L2 (English) primes and L1 ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Jouravlev O,Lupker SJ,Jared D

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to assess neural activation as participants learned to segment continuous streams of speech containing syllable sequences varying in their transitional probabilities. Speech streams were presented in four runs, each followed by a behavioral test to measure the exte...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Karuza EA,Newport EL,Aslin RN,Starling SJ,Tivarus ME,Bavelier D

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gender assignment relates to a native speaker's knowledge of the structure of the gender system of his/her language, allowing the speaker to select the appropriate gender for each noun. Whereas categorical assignment rules and exceptional gender assignment are well investigated, assignment regularities, i.e., tendenci...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Schwichtenberg B,Schiller NO

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FM is a progressive aphasic patient whose language comprehension we studied over a 4-year period. We developed a variety of implicit and explicit tasks to chart progressive changes in the representation of linguistic knowledge (in particular, syntax and semantics) and the automatic and controlled processes which opera...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Tyler LK,Moss HE,Patterson K,Hodges J

更新日期：1997-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Does age constrain the outcome of all language acquisition equally regardless of whether the language is a first or second one? To test this hypothesis, the English grammatical abilities of deaf and hearing adults who either did or did not have linguistic experience (spoken or signed) during early childhood were inves...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Mayberry RI,Lock E

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An event-related potential (ERP) probe was used to examine various models of ambiguous sentence processing. ERPs to light flashes were recorded during and immediately after auditorily presented ambiguous and unambiguous target sentences. Each target sentence was preceded by either a relevant or a neutral context sente...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Erwin RJ

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Well-documented cases of crossed (transcortical sensory) aphasia, especially those with longitudinal evaluation, are rare. We report a case of crossed transcortical sensory aphasia following watershed infarcts in the right hemisphere, from the moment of the accident until 15 months afterward. The aphasia type, and the...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Roebroek RM,Promes MM,Korten JJ,Lormans AC,van der Laan RT

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropsychological testing of a patient with auditory agnosia showed that certain difficulties in the initial analysis of sounds may be the cause of his inability to understand spoken words and other sounds. Abnormalities included a slow reaction time to brief auditory stimuli (but not to equally brief visual stimuli ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Buchtel HA,Stewart JD

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous behavioral study, we showed that parents of children with SLI had a subclinical deficit in phonological short-term memory. Here, we tested the hypothesis that they also have a deficit in nonverbal auditory sensory memory. We measured auditory sensory memory using a paradigm involving an electrophysiologi...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Barry JG,Hardiman MJ,Line E,White KB,Yasin I,Bishop DV

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Explicit associative-semantic processing of words and pictures activates a distributed set of brain areas that has been replicated across a wide range of studies. We applied graph analysis to examine the structure of this network. We determined how the left ventral occipitotemporal transition zone (vOT) was connected ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Vandenberghe R,Wang Y,Nelissen N,Vandenbulcke M,Dhollander T,Sunaert S,Dupont P

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that the lemma and lexeme levels of lexical access are in a feed-forward serial relation is supported. Subjects judge the degree of semantic relatedness of pairs of words. Stimuli are all functionally synonymous; they are pairs of words implicated in natural word blends. Half the stimuli are phonologica...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Laubstein AS

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nature of cerebral involvement in the acquisition of language was addressed in this longitudinal study of children with an early diagnosis of epilepsy with simple-partial seizures (SPE) and with epileptogenic foci localized in the left frontal (LF) lobe. Yearly evaluations of six SPE-LF children on tests of lingui...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Cohen H,Le Normand MT

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The syllable has received considerable empirical support as a unit of processing in speech perception, but its status in speech production remains unclear. Some researchers propose that syllables are individually represented and retrieved during phonological encoding (e.g., Dell, 1986; Ferrand, Segui, & Grainger, 1996...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Wilshire CE,Nespoulous JL

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embodied theories assign experience a crucial role in shaping conceptual representations. Supporting evidence comes mostly from studies on concrete concepts, where e.g., motor expertise facilitated action concept processing. This study examined experience-dependent effects on abstract concept processing. We asked part...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Bechtold L,Bellebaum C,Egan S,Tettamanti M,Ghio M

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The traditional clinical picture for English nonfluent aphasics has generally presented the deficit as one of total loss of control over grammatical morphology, with some sparing of word order. This is at odds with recent research involving nonfluent aphasic speakers of highly inflected languages, which has shown that...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Kilborn K

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-one adult aphasics of both sexes were studied before and after a 3-month period of language therapy. Although no initial sex difference was found in severity of language disorders, females within the global aphasic group showed significantly greater improvement in three tests of language comprehension. It is su...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Pizzamiglio L,Mammucari A,Razzano C

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated within-subject test-retest reproducibility (i.e., reliability) of language lateralization obtained with fMRI. Nine healthy subjects performed the same set of three different language tasks during two fMRI sessions on separate days (verb generation, antonym generation, and picture naming). A fou...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Rutten GJ,Ramsey NF,van Rijen PC,van Veelen CW

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) was first recognized by Mesulam in 1982. Although dozens of cases have since been described, it has been difficult to place these cases into a coherent framework due to the wide variation in measures which have been reported. We review 170 contacts with 112 patients to provide a clini...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Westbury C,Bub D

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the ability of right brain-damaged individuals (RBD) to use contextual information to resolve ambiguous pronouns. Subjects were presented with sentence pairs and required to resolve the ambiguous pronoun in the second sentence. Contrary to the prevailing view that RBD patients have difficulty u...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Leonard CL,Waters GS,Caplan D

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments are reported in which the determinants of spelling errors on homophonous verb forms in Dutch were studied. Both experiments indicated that errors were determined by the frequency relationship between the two homophonous forms and the distance between the verb and the word determining its spelling. We p...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Sandra D,Frisson S,Daems F

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skilled visual word recognition is thought to rely upon a particular region within the left fusiform gyrus, the visual word form area (VWFA). We investigated whether an individual (AA1) with pure alexia resulting from acquired damage to the VWFA territory could learn an alphabetic "FaceFont" orthography, in which face...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Moore MW,Brendel PC,Fiez JA

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurophysiological and neuroanatomical foundations of developmental language disorder (DLD) are still a matter of dispute. A main argument is that children with DLD show atypical anatomical asymmetries of speech-relevant brain areas, which possibly affect efficient language processing. In contrast to previous anat...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Jäncke L,Siegenthaler T,Preis S,Steinmetz H

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of CV syllables was studied in a backward masking paradigm in order to examine two types of interactions observed between dichotically presented speech sounds: the feature sharing effect and the lag effect. Pairs of syllables differed in the consonant, the vowel, and their relative times of onset. Inter...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Pisoni DB,McNabb SD

更新日期：1974-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Japan, verbal fluency tasks are commonly utilized as a standard paradigm for neuropsychological testing of cognitive and linguistic abilities. The Japanese "letter fluency task" is a mora/letter fluency task based on the phonological and orthographical characteristics of the Japanese language. Whether there are sim...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Dan H,Dan I,Sano T,Kyutoku Y,Oguro K,Yokota H,Tsuzuki D,Watanabe E

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This case report documents the partial recovery, over a 12-month period, of pure alexia in an adult female following a left occipital infarction. Measures of speed and accuracy were obtained on an oral reading and a lexical decision task immediately postonset and then on 10 subsequent occasions. Explicit letter-by-let...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Behrmann M,Black SE,Bub D

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00