ArticleBrain and language2015
Structural correlates of spoken language abilities: A surface-based region-of interest morphometry study.
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- Discovery of 42 genome-wide significant loci associated with dyslexia.Nature genetics · 2022Article
- Genome-wide analyses of individual differences in quantitatively assessed reading- and language-related skills in up to 34,000 people.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
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- Intrinsic Functional Connectivity in the Adult Brain and Success in Second-Language Learning.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2016Article
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Abstract
Brain structure can predict many aspects of human behavior, though the extent of this relationship in healthy adults, particularly for language-related skills, remains largely unknown. The objective of the present study was to explore this relation using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) on a group of 21 healthy young adults who completed two language tasks: (1) semantic fluency and (2) sentence generation. For each region of interest, cortical thickness, surface area, and volume were calculated. The results show that verbal fluency scores correlated mainly with measures of brain morphology in the left inferior frontal cortex and bilateral insula. Sentence generation scores correlated with structure of the left inferior parietal and right inferior frontal regions. These results reveal that the anatomy of several structures in frontal and parietal lobes is associated with spoken language performance. The presence of both negative and positive correlations highlights the complex relation between brain and language.
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