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Behavioural and Neuroimaging Investigation of Two Stages of Metaphor Comprehension Using the Metaphor Interference Effect in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Background Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are reported to have difficulty understanding figurative language, such as metaphors, but emerging evidence suggests that such problems are associated with structural language impairments and not an ASD diagnosis. However, even when...
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Evidence for the functional and structural differentiation of the inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus using DTI tractography
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The inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus (IFOF), a major ventral white matter pathway, has been shown to be a crucial component of semantic (Moritz-Gasser, Herbet & Duffau, 2013) and lexical/orthographic (Vandermosten, Boets, Polemans, Sunaert, Wouters & Ghesquière, 2012) processing. However,...
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Examining Activation of Lexical and Semantic Representations Without Intention: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials
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Background. According to dual-route models of reading, there are two pathways with which words can be read: an orthographic-lexical pathway used to read familiar regular words and exception (EXC) words, and a grapheme-to-phoneme-conversion (GPC)-sublexical pathway used to read unfamiliar regular...
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Fall 2016
Background. Context use in sentence comprehension is fairly resistant to age-related cognitive decline; however, event-related potentials (ERPs) studies have shown age effects in neural activity associated with sentence comprehension, specifically when contextual information is manipulated. One...