Modality-specific and -independent developmental differences in the neural substrate for lexical processing

• Published in: Journal of neurolinguistics Vol. 16; no. 4; pp. 383 - 405
• Main Authors: Booth, James R, Burman, Douglas D, Meyer, Joel R, Lei, Zhang, Choy, Janet, Gitelman, Darren R, Parrish, Todd B, Mesulam, M.Marsel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.07.2003
• Subjects: Lexical processing; Orthography; Phonology; Semantics; Lexical processing; Phonology; Orthography; Semantics

The neuroanatomy of developmental differences in lexical processing was examined with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in 15 adults and 15 children. We examined modality specific and modality independent (auditory and visual presentation) patterns of brain activation during spelling, rhy...