Search Results - "Watkins, Kate E."
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Age of language learning shapes brain structure: A cortical thickness study of bilingual and monolingual individuals
Published in Brain and language (01-04-2014)“…•Learning two languages from birth has no effect on cortical thickness compared to learning only one language.•In the bilingual brain, the later a second…”
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Transcranial direct current stimulation over left inferior frontal cortex improves speech fluency in adults who stutter
Published in Brain (London, England : 1878) (01-04-2018)“…See Crinion (doi:10.1093/brain/awy075) for a scientific commentary on this article. Chesters et al. present the first randomized controlled trial of…”
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Neurobiological Basis of Language Learning Difficulties
Published in Trends in cognitive sciences (01-09-2016)“…In this paper we highlight why there is a need to examine subcortical learning systems in children with language impairment and dyslexia, rather than focusing…”
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Motor Representations of Articulators Contribute to Categorical Perception of Speech Sounds
Published in The Journal of neuroscience (05-08-2009)“…Listening to speech modulates activity in human motor cortex. It is unclear, however, whether the motor cortex has an essential role in speech perception…”
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Morphological and functional variability in central and subcentral motor cortex of the human brain
Published in Brain Structure and Function (01-01-2021)“…There is a long-established link between anatomy and function in the somatomotor system in the mammalian cerebral cortex. The morphology of the central sulcus…”
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Correspondence of the brain's functional architecture during activation and rest
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (04-08-2009)“…Neural connections, providing the substrate for functional networks, exist whether or not they are functionally active at any given moment. However, it is not…”
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Cross-species cortical alignment identifies different types of anatomical reorganization in the primate temporal lobe
Published in eLife (23-03-2020)“…Evolutionary adaptations of temporo-parietal cortex are considered to be a critical specialization of the human brain. Cortical adaptations, however, can…”
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The role of the left inferior parietal lobule in second language learning: An intensive language training fMRI study
Published in Neuropsychologia (01-04-2017)“…Research to date suggests that second language acquisition results in functional and structural changes in the bilingual brain, however, in what way and how…”
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Tract-based spatial statistics: Voxelwise analysis of multi-subject diffusion data
Published in NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.) (15-07-2006)“…There has been much recent interest in using magnetic resonance diffusion imaging to provide information about anatomical connectivity in the brain, by…”
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Learning to play a melody: An fMRI study examining the formation of auditory-motor associations
Published in NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.) (16-01-2012)“…Interactions between the auditory and motor systems are important for music and speech, and may be especially relevant when one learns to associate sounds with…”
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A role for the subthalamic nucleus in response inhibition during conflict
Published in The Journal of neuroscience (26-09-2012)“…The subthalamic nucleus (STN) is a key node in the network that supports response inhibition. It is suggested that the STN rapidly inhibits basal ganglia…”
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Separation of trait and state in stuttering
Published in Human brain mapping (01-08-2018)“…Stuttering is a disorder in which the smooth flow of speech is interrupted. People who stutter show structural and functional abnormalities in the speech and…”
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Functional organisation for verb generation in children with developmental language disorder
Published in NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.) (01-02-2021)“…•We scanned the largest cohort of children with developmental language disorder to date.•Our pre-registered predictions were not upheld.•Children with DLD who…”
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Quantitative MRI reveals differences in striatal myelin in children with DLD
Published in eLife (27-09-2022)“…Developmental language disorder (DLD) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by receptive or expressive language difficulties or both. While…”
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Neural activation in speech production and reading aloud in native and non-native languages
Published in NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.) (15-05-2015)“…We used fMRI to investigate neural activation in reading aloud in bilinguals differing in age of acquisition. Three groups were compared: French-English…”
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Cognitive Neuroscience: The Neural Basis of Motor Learning by Observing
Published in Current biology (04-04-2016)“…Somatosensory feedback from the limbs plays an essential role when we learn to make new movements. A recent study shows that motor learning can be accomplished…”
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Patterns of Individual Variation in Visual Pathway Structure and Function in the Sighted and Blind
Published in PloS one (03-11-2016)“…Many structural and functional brain alterations accompany blindness, with substantial individual variation in these effects. In normally sighted people, there…”
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Asymmetries of the planum temporale and Heschl's gyrus: relationship to language lateralization
Published in Brain (London, England : 1878) (01-05-2006)“…Morphological asymmetries favouring the left hemisphere in the planum temporale (PT) and Heschl's gyrus (HG) have both been presumed to relate to the typical…”
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Hemispheric Specialization for Processing Auditory Nonspeech Stimuli
Published in Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. 1991) (01-09-2006)“…The left hemisphere specialization for speech perception might arise from asymmetries at more basic levels of auditory processing. In particular, it has been…”
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Discrimination of speech and non-speech sounds following theta-burst stimulation of the motor cortex
Published in Frontiers in psychology (15-07-2014)“…Perceiving speech engages parts of the motor system involved in speech production. The role of the motor cortex in speech perception has been demonstrated…”
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