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Kumar, Uttam; Padakannaya, Prakash – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
We employed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and diffuse tensor imaging (DTI) to study neural implications of silent reading of words in mutually comprehensible but visually and orthographically distinct languages for example Hindi and Urdu by independent groups of skilled readers. The fMRI results (conjunction analyses) showed the…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Reading Comprehension, Indo European Languages
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Mohamed, Wessam; Elbert, Thomas; Landerl, Karin – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
In a cross-sectional study, we investigated the development of fluent reading and spelling in the first 3 years of learning Arabic. The goals of our study were to: (1) validate suitable measures for fluent reading and spelling in the first 3 years of learning Arabic; (2) trace the developmental course of the relationship between fluent reading and…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Scripts, Spelling, Reading Fluency