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Pobric, Gorana; Jefferies, Elizabeth; Ralph, Matthew A. Lambon – Neuropsychologia, 2010
The key question of how the brain codes the meaning of words and pictures is the focus of vigorous debate. Is there a "semantic hub" in the temporal poles where these different inputs converge to form amodal conceptual representations? Alternatively, are there distinct neural circuits that underpin our comprehension of pictures and words?…
Descriptors: Pictorial Stimuli, Stimuli, Stimulation, Semantics
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Kast, Monika; Bezzola, Ladina; Jancke, Lutz; Meyer, Martin – Brain and Language, 2011
The present functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study was designed, in order to investigate the neural substrates involved in the audiovisual processing of disyllabic German words and pseudowords. Twelve dyslexic and 13 nondyslexic adults performed a lexical decision task while stimuli were presented unimodally (either aurally or…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Metabolism, Stimuli, Stimulation