Creativity is of central importance for human civilization, yet its neurocognitive bases are
poorly understood. The aim of the present study was to integrate existing functional imaging …

Abstract Objective In 1881, Exner first described a “graphic motor image center” in the
middle frontal gyrus. Current psycholinguistic models of handwriting involve the conversion …

A main goal of awake surgery is to preserve language in order to facilitate return to work and
maintain quality of life. Although spelling has become crucial in daily life, it has received little …

Objective To identify dysfunctional brain regions critical for impaired reading/spelling of
words/pseudowords by evaluating acute stroke patients on lexical tests and magnetic …

This paper provides a brief review of various uses of magnetic resonance perfusion imaging
in the investigation of brain/language relationships. The reviewed studies illustrate how …

Research on cross-linguistic comparisons of the neural correlates of reading has
consistently found that the left middle frontal gyrus (MFG) is more involved in Chinese than …

A central question in the study of the neural basis of written language is whether reading
and spelling utilize shared orthographic representations. While recent studies employing …

In setting out to explore the neural substrates of spelling and writing, a useful theoretical
point of departure is to consider the development of written language from an evolutionary …

Method: We examined the writing impairments of four dysgraphia patients from parietal lobe
lesions using a special writing test with 100 character kanji (Japanese morphograms) and …

A number of previous studies have indicated that Broca's area has an important role in
understanding and producing syntactically complex sentences and other language …