Based on the seminal publications of Paul Broca and Carl Wernicke who established that
aphasic syndromes (disorders of the verbal–linguistic aspects of communication) were …

Although teaching animals a few meaningful signs is usually time-consuming, children
acquire words easily after only a few exposures, a phenomenon termed “fast-mapping.” …

The neurobiological nature of semantic knowledge, ie, the encoding and storage of
conceptual information in the human brain, remains a poorly understood and hotly debated …

The emerging field of connectomics has provided an improved understanding of the
structural and functional organization of the human brain into large-scale brain networks …

Blind readers use a tactile reading system consisting of raised dot arrays: braille/⠃⠗⠇. How
do human brains implement reading by touch? The current study looked for signatures of …

Introduction Despite abundant research on the role of Broca's area in language processing,
there is still no consensus on language specificity of this region and its connectivity network …

We examined the extent to which white matter is related to spelling behaviour in adults with
skilled vs. impaired literacy skills. Adults (N= 30; 17 skilled) completed a battery of spelling …

Ischemic cerebrovascular events often lead to aphasia. Previous work provided hints that
such strokes may affect women and men in distinct ways. Women tend to suffer strokes with …

Background It has been theorized that hallucinations, a common symptom of schizophrenia,
are caused by failures in reality monitoring. The paracingulate sulcus (PCS) has been …

Super typhoons can lead to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which can adversely
affect a person's mental health after a disaster. Neuroimaging studies suggest that patients …