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Burman, Douglas D.; Bitan, Tali; Booth, James R. – Neuropsychologia, 2008
Why females generally perform better on language tasks than males is unknown. Sex differences were here identified in children (ages 9-15) across two linguistic tasks for words presented in two modalities. Bilateral activation in the inferior frontal and superior temporal gyri and activation in the left fusiform gyrus of girls was greater than in…
Descriptors: Females, Linguistics, Language Tests, Cognitive Processes
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Bolger, Donald J.; Minas, Jennifer; Burman, Douglas D.; Booth, James R. – Neuropsychologia, 2008
One of the central challenges in mastering English is becoming sensitive to consistency from spelling to sound (i.e. phonological consistency) and from sound to spelling (i.e. orthographic consistency). Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we examined the neural correlates of consistency in 9-15-year-old Normal and Impaired Readers…
Descriptors: Spelling, Phonology, Phonological Awareness, Brain