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Hemispheric Inference Priming during Comprehension of Conversations and Narratives
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Powers, Chivon; Bencic, Rachel; Horton, William S.; Beeman, Mark – Neuropsychologia, 2012
In this study we examined asymmetric semantic activation patterns as people listened to conversations and narratives that promoted causal inferences. Based on the hypothesis that understanding the unique features of conversational input may benefit from or require a modified pattern of conceptual activation during conversation, we compared…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Semantics, Priming, Speech Communication
Language and Reading Skills in School-Aged Children and Adolescents Born Preterm Are Associated with White Matter Properties on Diffusion Tensor Imaging
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Feldman, Heidi M.; Lee, Eliana S.; Yeatman, Jason D.; Yeom, Kristen W. – Neuropsychologia, 2012
Children born preterm are at risk for deficits in language and reading. They are also at risk for injury to the white matter of the brain. The goal of this study was to determine whether performance in language and reading skills would be associated with white matter properties in children born preterm and full-term. Children born before 36 weeks…
Descriptors: Premature Infants, Language Skills, Reading Skills, Children
Specific Language and Reading Skills in School-Aged Children and Adolescents Are Associated with Prematurity after Controlling for IQ
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Lee, Eliana S.; Yeatman, Jason D.; Luna, Beatriz; Feldman, Heidi M. – Neuropsychologia, 2011
Although studies of long-term outcomes of children born preterm consistently show low intelligence quotient (IQ) and visual-motor impairment, studies of their performance in language and reading have found inconsistent results. In this study, we examined which specific language and reading skills were associated with prematurity independent of the…
Descriptors: Premature Infants, Language Skills, Reading Skills, Children
Broca's Area Plays a Role in Syntactic Processing during Chinese Reading Comprehension
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Wang, Suiping; Zhu, Zude; Zhang, John X.; Wang, Zhaoxin; Xiao, Zhuangwei; Xiang, Huadong; Chen, Hsuan-Chih – Neuropsychologia, 2008
Event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (ER-fMRI) was adopted to examine brain activation of syntactic processing in reading logographic Chinese. While fMRI data were obtained, 15 readers of Chinese read individually presented sentences and performed semantic congruency judgments on three kinds of sentences: Congruous sentences (CON),…
Descriptors: Neurological Organization, Brain, Chinese, Reading Comprehension
Reading for Meaning in Dyslexic and Young Children: Distinct Neural Pathways but Common Endpoints
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Schulz, Enrico; Maurer, Urs; van der Mark, Sanne; Bucher, Kerstin; Brem, Silvia; Martin, Ernst; Brandeis, Daniel – Neuropsychologia, 2009
Developmental dyslexia is a highly prevalent and specific disorder of reading acquisition characterised by impaired reading fluency and comprehension. We have previously identified fMRI- and ERP-based neural markers of impaired sentence reading in dyslexia that indicated both deviant basic word processing and deviant semantic incongruency…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Young Children, Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency
Knowledge-Based Inferences across the Hemispheres: Domain Makes a Difference
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Shears, Connie; Hawkins, Amanda; Varner, Andria; Lewis, Lindsey; Heatley, Jennifer; Twachtmann, Lisa – Neuropsychologia, 2008
Language comprehension occurs when the left-hemisphere (LH) and the right-hemisphere (RH) share information derived from discourse [Beeman, M. J., Bowden, E. M., & Gernsbacher, M. A. (2000). Right and left hemisphere cooperation for drawing predictive and coherence inferences during normal story comprehension. "Brain and Language, 71", 310-336].…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Stimuli, Inferences