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ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2019

Investigating Gray and White Matter Structural Substrates of Sex Differences in the Narrative Abilities of Healthy Adults.

Georgia Angelopoulou, Erin L Meier, Dimitrios Kasselimis, Yue Pan, Dimitrios Tsolakopoulos, George Velonakis, Efstratios Karavasilis, Nikolaos L Kelekis, Dionysios Goutsos, Constantin Potagas and 1 more

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Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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11 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Georgia AngelopoulouNeuropsychology and Language Disorders Unit, 1st Department of Neurology, Eginition Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Erin L MeierDepartment of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Dimitrios KasselimisNeuropsychology and Language Disorders Unit, 1st Department of Neurology, Eginition Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Yue PanSargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States.
Dimitrios TsolakopoulosNeuropsychology and Language Disorders Unit, 1st Department of Neurology, Eginition Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
George Velonakis2nd Department of Radiology, General University Hospital "Attikon", Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Efstratios Karavasilis2nd Department of Radiology, General University Hospital "Attikon", Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Nikolaos L Kelekis2nd Department of Radiology, General University Hospital "Attikon", Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Dionysios GoutsosDepartment of Linguistics, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Constantin PotagasNeuropsychology and Language Disorders Unit, 1st Department of Neurology, Eginition Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Swathi KiranSargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States.
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GRBoston University · USEginition Hospital · GRJohns Hopkins University · USUniversity of Crete · GR

Funding

Neurobiology of Language Recovery in Aphasia: Natural History and Treatment-Ind*P50DC012283 · NIDCD · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI THOMPSON, CYNTHIA K · 2013 to 2017
$11.7M
Structural and Effective Connectivity of Reorganized Language Networks in AphasiaF31DC015940 · NIDCD · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · PI MEIER, ERIN LYNN · 2017 to 2018
$79k
NIDCD NIH HHS F31 DC015940NIDCD NIH HHS P50 DC012283
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Linguistic aspects of narration have been investigated in healthy populations, in a wide variety of languages and speech genres with very different results. There is some evidence indicating that linguistic elements, such as speech rate (i.e., the measure indicating the amount of speech produced in a certain time period), mean length of utterance (MLU) (i.e., the index reflecting sentence grammatical structure), frequency of nouns and verbs, might be affected by non-linguistic factors such as sex. On the other hand, despite the existence of neuroimaging evidence of structural differences between males and females, it is yet unknown how such differences could explain between-sex disparities in linguistic abilities in natural speech contexts. To date, no study has evaluated discourse production elements in relation to sex differences and their neural correlates in terms of brain structure, a topic that could provide unique insights on the relationship between language and the brain. The aim of the present study was to determine sex differences in narrative skills in healthy adults and to investigate white and gray matter structural correlates of linguistic skills in each group. Twenty-seven male and 30 female (

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