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Gonzalez, Rafael; Rojas, Macarena; Ardila, Alfredo – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2020
Background: Every language has certain specific idiosyncrasies in its writing system. Cross-linguistic analyses of alexias and agraphias are fundamental to understand commonalities and differences in the brain organization of written language. Few reports of alexias and agraphias in the Spanish language are currently available. Aims: To analyse…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Aphasia, Handedness
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Kherif, Ferath; Josse, Goulven; Seghier, Mohamed L.; Price, Cathy J. – Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2009
The aim of this study was to find the most prominent source of intersubject variability in neuronal activation for reading familiar words aloud. To this end, we collected functional imaging data from a large sample of subjects (n = 76) with different demographic characteristics such as handedness, sex, and age, while reading. The…
Descriptors: Handedness, Semantics, Reading Strategies, Error of Measurement
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Gaffrey, Michael S.; Kleinhans, Natalia M.; Haist, Frank; Akshoomoff, Natacha; Campbell, Ashley; Courchesne, Eric; Muller, Ralph-Axel – Neuropsychologia, 2007
Language delay and impairment are salient features of autism. More specifically, there is evidence of atypical semantic organization in autism, but the functional brain correlates are not well understood. The current study used functional MRI to examine activation associated with semantic category decision. Ten high-functioning men with autism…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Control Groups, Semantics, Autism
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Masutto, Cristina; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1994
This study of 38 right-handed children (age range 90 to 201 months) with dyslexia found characteristic patterns of organization of intellectual functions, of hemispheric specialization, and of reading errors in the subtypes, identified as linguistic dyslexia, perceptual dyslexia, and mixed dyslexia. (DB)
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Classification, Dyslexia, Error Patterns