functional neuroimaging

A MEG study of the neural substrates of semantic processing in semantic variant primary progressive aphasia

Despite a well-documented pattern of semantic impairment, the patterns of brain activation during semantic processing in semantic variant primary progressive aphasia (svPPA) still remain poorly understood. In the current study, one svPPA patient (EC) …

The role of age of acquisition and language usage in early, high-proficient bilinguals: An fMRI study during verbal fluency

We assessed the effects of age of acquisition and language exposure on the cerebral correlates of lexical retrieval in high-proficient, early-acquisition bilinguals. Functional MRI was used to study Spanish–Catalan bilinguals who acquired either …