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Oi, Misato; Saito, Hirofumi; Li, Zongfeng; Zhao, Wenjun – Brain and Language, 2013
To examine the neural mechanism of co-speech gesture production, we measured brain activity of bilinguals during an animation-narration task using near-infrared spectroscopy. The task of the participants was to watch two stories via an animated cartoon, and then narrate the contents in their first language (Ll) and second language (L2),…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Bilingualism, Animation, Cartoons
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Weed, Ethan; McGregor, William; Nielsen, Jorgen Feldbaek; Roepstorff, Andreas; Frith, Uta – Brain and Language, 2010
Why do people with right hemisphere damage (RHD) have difficulty with pragmatics and communication? One hypothesis has been that pragmatic impairment in RHD is the result of an underlying impairment in Theory of Mind (ToM): the ability to infer the mental states of others. In previous studies evaluating ToM abilities in people with RHD,…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cartoons, Geometric Concepts, Films