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Reading differences and brain: cortical integration of speech and print in sentence processing varies with reader skill.
- Source :
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Developmental neuropsychology [Dev Neuropsychol] 2008; Vol. 33 (6), pp. 745-75. - Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to investigate the impact of literacy skills in young adults on the distribution of cerebral activity during comprehension of sentences in spoken and printed form. The aim was to discover where speech and print streams merge, and whether their convergence is affected by the level of reading skill. The results from different analyses all point to the conclusion that neural integration of sentence processing across speech and print varies positively with the reader's skill. Further, they identify the inferior frontal region as the principal site of speech-print integration and a major focus of reading comprehension differences. The findings provide new evidence of the role of the inferior frontal region in supporting supramodal systems of linguistic representation.
- Subjects :
- Adolescent
Cerebral Cortex anatomy & histology
Cerebral Cortex blood supply
Comprehension physiology
Female
Functional Laterality physiology
Humans
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
Magnetic Resonance Imaging methods
Male
Neuropsychological Tests
Oxygen blood
Young Adult
Brain Mapping
Cerebral Cortex physiology
Language
Printing
Reading
Speech physiology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1532-6942
- Volume :
- 33
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Developmental neuropsychology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 19005913
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/87565640802418688