Sentences with phrase «language processing regions»

«This suggests that the anatomical differences reported in left hemisphere language processing regions appear to be a consequence of reading experience as opposed to a cause of dyslexia,» says Anthony Krafnick, PhD, lead author of the publication.

Not exact matches

But it is now clear that the right hemisphere plays a significant role in language processing as well, and that language comprehension and production involve many regions of the brain.

While a clinician may find it difficult to parse whether a patient's stilted conversational manner is rooted in a lack of emotional connection or problems forming words, a brain scan in Belger's study made it clear, for example, that particular symptoms were more closely associated with disruption in the brain's emotional processing areas, whereas other symptoms were more closely associated with regions responsible for language and motor control.

Several critical factors led the team to hope he might benefit from DBS, including the fact that sometimes he did respond and an imaging study showed that language - processing regions of his brain activated in response to spoken words.

A postmortem analysis of human brain tissue, for example, conducted by Witelson and her colleagues at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster, revealed that women's neurons were 11 percent denser than men's in the prefrontal cortex and in a region of the temporal cortex that is involved with language processing, comprehension, and memory.

This is clear evidence, says David Corina of the University of Washington, that «the language - processing regions of the human brain can adapt to a surprisingly wide range of signaling forms.»

So pinpointing these differences in visual areas might reveal important details about processing in brain regions related to social functioning and language, which are not as well understood.

The key issue seems to be when the peripheral nervous system joins up with the cerebral cortex, the region of the brain responsible for higher thought processes such as memory, attention, thought, awareness and language.

People with intermittent explosive disorder (IED), or impulsive aggression, have a weakened connection between regions of the brain associated with sensory input, language processing and social interaction.

Cell Phones Alter Brain Metabolism: A 50 - minute phone call boosts metabolism in the brain regions closest to the antenna, including areas involved in language, decision making, and emotional processing.

And it is possible that other animals also use the same brain regions to process language.

She found that 50 - minute cell phone calls increased metabolism in the regions closest to the phone antenna — specifically, the orbitofrontal cortex and temporal pole, which are involved in sensory integration, language, decision making, and social and emotional processing.

Listening to the tones in instrumental music, for example, activates language regions of the brain that also process words and syntax.

None showed that this region of the left hemisphere was a marker of tasks related to language, but there was a local correlation between the anatomical asymmetry and the functional asymmetry during the auditory processing of speech.

The results showed that with testosterone treatment the volume of grey matter decreased in two specific regions of the brain, the Broca's and Wernicke's areas, which are mainly responsible for language processing.

A 50 - minute phone call boosts metabolism in the brain regions closest to the antenna, including areas involved in language, decision making, and emotional processing.

«This lack of synchronization with frontal regions in ASD — an impairment in brain connectivity — may lead to symptoms of the disorder that involve processes that require brain coordination between frontal and other areas, such as language processing and social interaction,» Just explained.

In healthy subjects, language - processing regions become more active when they hear such backward speech, working hard to interpret strange - sounding words.

Dyslexia, the most commonly diagnosed learning disability in the United States, is a neurological reading disability that occurs when the regions of the brain that process written language don't function normally.

«If the region in which the meaning of language is processed is impaired, the so - called left angular gyrus, our brain is able to balance it well.

In addition, strong associations between normalized path length and full - scale IQ were found in left superior temporal and inferior frontal gyrus, regions that are known to play a key role in language processing (Fig. 3).

Social network proximity was also associated with neural response similarity within areas involved in attentional allocation, such as the right superior parietal cortex30, 31, and regions in the inferior parietal lobe, such as the bilateral supramarginal gyri and left inferior parietal cortex (which includes the angular gyrus in the parcellation scheme used32), that have been implicated in bottom - up attentional control, discerning others» mental states, processing language and the narrative content of stories, and sense - making more generally33, 34,35.

A map of brain regions associated with language processing in the human cerebral cortex.

Musso and colleagues70, for example suggest that processing syntax in music and language is highly differentiated within the left IFG, but more generally engages in a dual - stream system that connects left frontal, parietal, and temporal regions.

In one experiment, elderly participants who completed 12 weeks of yoga demonstrated improved connections between functional regions in the brain responsible for language processing, attention, and self - regulation.

Actors are selected from the US and the MENA region for their professionalism, versatility, suitability for the development process and of course fluency in the language of the project.

These results suggest that a partial remediation of language - processing deficits, resulting in improved reading, ameliorates disrupted function in brain regions associated with phonological processing and produces additional compensatory activation in other brain regions.

Remediation resulted in improved language, reading performance, and increased activation in multiple brain regions during phonological processing.

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