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Luisa Cacciante; Giorgia Pregnolato; Silvia Salvalaggio; Sara Federico; Pawel Kiper; Nicola Smania; Andrea Turolla – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: Humans often use co-speech gestures to promote effective communication. Attention has been paid to the cortical areas engaged in the processing of co-speech gestures. Aims: To investigate the neural network underpinned in the processing of co-speech gestures and to observe whether there is a relationship between areas involved in…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Nonverbal Communication, Brain, Correlation
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Zhang, Zheng; Peng, Peng – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Word reading is critical for reading development. However, it has long been debated on the processes involved in real word and pseudoword decoding in developmental dyslexia (DD). We conducted a meta-analysis of 28 neuroimaging studies (519 participants with DD, 562 typical readers, age range 5-63 years, female 37.65%, 382 foci, 64 experimental…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Dyslexia, Decoding (Reading), Effect Size
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Key, Alexandra P.; D'Ambrose Slaboch, Kathryn – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: Investigations into the nature of communication disorders in autistic individuals increasingly evaluate neural responses to speech stimuli. This integrative review aimed to consolidate the available data related to speech and language processing across levels of stimulus complexity (from single speech sounds to sentences) and to relate it…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Databases, Language Processing, Semantics
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Mitchell, Karen J.; Johnson, Marcia K. – Psychological Bulletin, 2009
Focusing primarily on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), this article reviews evidence regarding the roles of subregions of the medial temporal lobes, prefrontal cortex, posterior representational areas, and parietal cortex in source memory. In addition to evidence from standard episodic memory tasks assessing accuracy for neutral…
Descriptors: Semantics, Schizophrenia, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Prior Learning
Duer, Jacqueline M. – 1988
This review of the literature looks at writing disabilities in the context of special education services provided within regular classrooms. A definition of learning disabilities as well as a discussion of effects of left and right brain dominance and of the steps of the writing process begin the paper. Among the findings of the research synthesis…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Lateral Dominance