Fatoorechi, Sarah Westerveld, Michael Lee, Gregory P
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Epilepsy & behavior : E&B
An important role of neuropsychology in the preoperative evaluation of epilepsy surgery candidates is to assess risk for postoperative memory decline. One factor associated with postoperative verbal memory decline is surgery in the language-dominant temporal lobe (TL). The aim of the study was to determine whether atypical language representation h...
Van der Cruyssen, Ine Gerrits, Robin Vingerhoets, Guy
The human brain is functionally asymmetric. Producing and understanding language, for instance, engages the left hemisphere to a larger extent than the right in most people. Recent research showed that lateralization for auditory word processing increases with age. The present study extends these findings to the visual domain. We measured lateraliz...
Vingerhoets, Guy
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Physics of life reviews
Directional hemispheric dominance has been established for numerous cognitive functions in the human brain. Strong population biases with some functions favoring the left and others the right hemisphere generated the popular idea of an advantageous prototypical division of labor between both halves of the brain, molded by evolution and genetically ...
Gerrits, Robin Van der Haegen, Lise Brysbaert, Marc Vingerhoets, Guy
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Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior
Recognizing words and faces engages highly specialized sites within the middle fusiform gyrus, known as the visual word form area (VWFA) and fusiform face area (FFA) respectively. The VWFA and FFA have clear but opposite population-level asymmetries, with the VWFA typically being lateralized to the left and the FFA to the right hemisphere. The pres...
Menzler, Katja Bopp, Miriam H. A. Carl, Barbara Knake, Susanne
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Zeitschrift für Epileptologie
Der bisherige Goldstandard Wada-Test zur Lateralisierung von Sprach- und Gedächtnisfunktionen ist zeit- und kostenintensiv und birgt ein Komplikationsrisiko von etwa 1 %. Aus diesem Grund spielen nichtinvasive Verfahren zur Lokalisation von eloquenten Kortexarealen, insbesondere Sprachfunktionen, eine zunehmend wichtige Rolle in der prächirurgische...
Vingerhoets, Guy Li, Xiang Hou, Lewis Bogaert, Stephanie Verhelst, Helena Gerrits, Robin Siugzdaite, Roma Roberts, Neil
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Brain Structure and Function
Magnetic resonance imaging was used to investigate brain structural and functional asymmetries in 15 participants with complete visceral reversal (situs inversus totalis, SIT). Language-related brain structural and functional lateralization of SIT participants, including peri-Sylvian gray and white matter asymmetries and hemispheric language domina...
Guerra-Reyes, Lucia Rush, Benjamin Herbenick, Debby Dodge, Brian Reece, Michael Schick, Vanessa Sanders, Stephanie A. Fortenberry, J. Dennis
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Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
This study assessed the prevalence of sexual behaviors among a nationally representative sample of Latino men and women in the United States (US) (N = 432) including Spanish language data collection. Prior studies of sexual health among US Latinos have consisted of convenience samples, and focused mainly on assessing risk behaviors. We consider a b...
Avramescu-Murphy, M. Hattingen, E. Forster, M.-T. Oszvald, A. Anti, S. Frisch, S. Russ, M. O. Jurcoane, A.
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Clinical Neuroradiology
PurposeSurgical resection of brain tumors may shift the location of cortical language areas. Studies of language reorganization primarily investigated left-hemispheric tumors irrespective of hemispheric language dominance. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate how tumors influence post-surgical language reorganization ...
Kazanas, Stephanie A. Altarriba, Jeanette
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Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
Previous studies comparing emotion and emotion-laden word processing have used various cognitive tasks, including an Affective Simon Task (Altarriba and Basnight-Brown in Int J Billing 15(3):310–328, 2011), lexical decision task (LDT; Kazanas and Altarriba in Am J Psychol, in press), and rapid serial visual processing (Knickerbocker and Altarriba i...
Ferreira, Aline Schwieter, John W. Gottardo, Alexandra Jones, Jefferey
This case study examined the translation performance of four professional translators with the aim of exploring the cognitive effort involved in direct and inverse translation. Four professional translators translated two comparable texts from English into Spanish and from Spanish into English. Eye-tracking technology was used to analyze the total ...
