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Fernandes, M. A.; Smith, M. L.; Logan, W.; Crawley, A.; McAndrews, M. P. – Brain and Language, 2006
We investigated the relationship between ear advantage scores on the Fused Dichotic Words Test (FDWT), and laterality of activation in fMRI using a verb generation paradigm in fourteen children with epilepsy. The magnitude of the laterality index (LI), based on spatial extent and magnitude of activation in classical language areas (BA 44/45,…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension Tests, Epilepsy, Language Processing, Children
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Marczinski, Cecile A.; Kertesz, Andrew – Brain and Language, 2006
This study examined the impact of various degenerative dementias on access to semantic knowledge and the status of semantic representations. Patients with semantic dementia, primary progressive aphasia, and Alzheimer's disease were compared with elderly controls on tasks of category and letter fluency, with number of words generated, mean lexical…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Semantics, Alzheimers Disease, Aphasia