OBJECTIVE: To investigate the neural correlates of verbal and nonverbal semantic processing in neurodegenerative disease. BACKGROUND: Semantic memory is often impaired in neurodegenerative disease. Neuropsychologic and functional neuroimaging studies …
With event-related functional MRI (fMRI) and with behavioral measures we studied the brain processes underlying the acquisition of native language literacy. Adult dialect speakers were scanned while reading words belonging to three different …