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Boatman, Dana F. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2007
Recent brain mapping studies have provided new insights into the cortical systems that mediate human speech perception. Electrocortical stimulation mapping (ESM) is a brain mapping method that is used clinically to localize cortical functions in neurosurgical patients. Recent ESM studies have yielded new insights into the cortical systems that…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Language Acquisition, Knowledge Representation, Statistical Surveys
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Schumann, John H. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1995
Responds to L. Eubank and K. R. Gregg article (this issue), suggesting that they present a narrow view of language that they wish the field of language acquisition to share. It is suggested that Eubank and Gregg contend that the only thing to be explained is the human capacity for grammatical competence. This belief discounts, misrepresents, or…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Ability, Grammar, Individual Differences
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Blumenfeld, Henrike K.; Booth, James R.; Burman, Douglas D. – Brain and Language, 2006
This study used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine brain-behavior correlations in a group of 16 children (9- to 12-year-olds). Activation was measured during a semantic judgment task presented in either the visual or auditory modality that required the individual to determine whether a final word was related in meaning to one…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Visual Discrimination, Auditory Discrimination, Neurolinguistics
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Riza, Emel – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2002
There are close relationships between brain activities and educational technology. Brain is very important and so complicated part in our bodies. From long time scientists pay attention to that part and did many experiments, but they just reached little information like a drop in the sea. However from time to time they gave us some light to…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Brain, Cognitive Processes, Neurolinguistics