Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"language areas"”.
-
Characterizing Cortex-Hippocampus Interactions During Language Processing
… including that of the hippocampus, in language processing, remain largely unknown. In patients with hippocampal damage, language is left largely intact [Vargha-Khadem et al., 1997], suggesting that the hippocampus is likely not necessary for language processing. Recent evidence, …
-
Locating functional brain areas with magnetic stimulation and electrophysiological neuroimaging
… We introduced a method for locating cortical language areas non-invasively with nTMS. When short TMS bursts are delivered to different brain areas time-locked with a picture-naming task, language areas are revealed by stimulation-evoked naming errors. This "nTMS language mapping" provides a …
-
Language Disabilities of Delinquent Adolescents
… Of that group, 39 to 63 percent show a language disorder syndrome which may negatively affect school learning over a broad range of the curriculum area (Semel and Wiig, 1980). The prevalence of learning disabilities in the juvenile delinquent population is significantly higher. It ranges …
-
Seeking the neural basis of grammar : English noun and verb morphological processing investigated with rapid event-related fMRI and intracortical electrophysiology
… electrodes implanted through or near classical language areas of their brains, as a necessary clinical step in locating and surgically removing the seizure-causing tissue. The main findings of this thesis are: 1.) Morphology alone can activate Broca's area, 2.) Other areas are involved, …
-
Eine TMS-Studie zur funktionellen Verbindung zwischen kortikalem motorischem Handareal und Sprachareal bei Schlaganfallpatienten mit Restaphasie
… enhanced during reading aloud, but only on the language-dominant hemisphere. These results indicate that there is a functional connectivity between cortical areas for hand movement and language on the language-dominant hemisphere. The present study assessed the modulation of this connectivity in …
-
Kindergartners' Oral Responses to Stories Either Told or Read to Them
… They also retold the story. The appropriate oral language level was selected as a result of the Early Prevention of School Failure screening, which was administered in September of the school year. The strengths and needs for receptive and expressive language were examined to determine …
-
Kindergartner’s Oral Responses to Stories Either Told or Read to Them
… They also retold the story. The appropriate oral language level was selected as a result of the Early Prevention of school Failure screening, which was administered in September of the school year. The strengths and needs for receptive and expressive language were examined to determine …
-
The neuroanatomy of pictorial reasoning in autism
… characteristic is the contrast between their language and visual processing abilities. The work in this thesis combines behavioral, functional MRI, and diffusion tensor imaging methods to examine the neurobiological basis of the discrepancy between linguistic and visuospatial skills in …
-
Rhythmic Sensitivity and Developmental Language Disorder in Children
Children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) have difficulties in acquiring language in the absence of other neurodevelopmental issues (e.g. autism, hearing impairment) and despite growing up in an adequate language-learning environment. Previous characterisations of DLD have focused on …
-
Inner speech in post-stroke aphasia : a behavioural and imaging study
… theoretical drawbacks. In cognitive models of language processing, inner speech is described as either dependent on both speech production and speech comprehension, or on the speech production system alone. Lastly, imaging studies show that inner speech is correlated with activation in various …
-
Mental number representation as assessed by the number bisection task : a combined reaction time and fMRI study
… the localisation of the different activation areas found in this study was compared with the specifications made in the triple-code model by Dehaene and Cohen (1995, 1997; Dehaene, 1992) and other findings from the literature on brain activation in number processing and calculation tasks. The …
-
PREDICTORS OF APHASIA TREATMENT OUTCOME
… disorder resulting from damage to speech and language areas of the brain, has often been guided by clinical intuition and pragmatism. This manuscript aimed to identify predictors of effective aphasia treatment that could better indicate a patient's prognosis.</p> <p><bold>Method:</bold> This …
-
Assessing British sign language development
… bilingualism seeks to introduce British Sign Language (BSL) to deaf children from an early age in order to establish a first language from which English, the majority language, can be acquired. However, there is little concensus on how deaf children's BSL development should be measured and no …
-
Supplementing ESL Classroom Activities With Social Media For Young Adult Learners
… currently utilized in English as a second language (ESL) classrooms is often disconnected from the real world. Publishers of ESL instructional materials often attempt to bridge this gap by including topics on popular news, films, songs, and famous persons at the time of printing. However, …
-
MRI at 3 T of brain functions and fibre tracts adjacent to intracranial tumors
… 94 % of subjects (Paper 1). The sensorimotor and language areas close to intracranial tumors were identified in 95 % of patients. Paradigm effectiveness ranged from 79 to 95 %. The median quality of the activation maps was high. fMRI contributed to the decision to operate, the surgical approach …
-
Neuropsychological and functional magnetic resonance imaging investigations of anterior temporal lobe language function in patients with epilepsy : a pilot study
… lobe epilepsy (TLE), and although classical language models implicate the ATL in language function, and naming difficulties are commonly reported by TLE patients post-surgically, the role of the ATL in language is not well understood. The present study aimed to examine the role of the ATL in …
-
Relationships between musical and linguistic skills in early development: the role of informal musical experience in the home
… a specific focus on the relationship between language and music skills. However, a significant gap exists when looking at the start of the developmental path of the relationship between these abilities: whereas something is known about infants and a significant amount has been learned about …
-
An investigation into parental perception of aspects of development and temperament in abused children
… on six categories of temperament. and in three areas of development. viz. gross-motor functioning. receptive language and socialization skills. Temperament categories and scoring methods for both parents and children were adapted for use in this research from the work of Alexander Thomas and his …
-
Advanced clinical MRI for better outcome in epilepsy surgery. Focusing on fMRI and prediction of verbal memory decline.
… results of epilepsy surgery, with focus on language and memory functions. Methods: In paper I, 25 patients with drug-resistant epilepsy were retrospectively included in the study for having been referred to high resolution 3T MRI with and without surface coils. The surface coils were placed …
-
Neuronale Kooperationsprozesse während der Verarbeitung figurativer Sprache : eine EEG-Kohärenzanalyse
We investigated the reception of German spoken language using the analysis of EEG coherence. The study focusses on processing different types of sentences such as literal and figurative ones: literal: Sie hilft dem Schauspieler auf die Bühne. (She helps the actor onto the stage.) figurative …