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The neural organization of discourse: an H2 15O-PET study of narrative production in English and American sign languageA R Braun
Language Section, Voice Speech and Language Branch, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Brain 124:2028-44. 2001..This pattern is not predicted by the standard Wernicke-Geschwind model, and may become apparent when language is produced in an ecologically valid context...
Tune deafness: processing melodic errors outside of conscious awareness as reflected by components of the auditory ERPAllen Braun
Language Section, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
PLoS ONE 3:e2349. 2008..Given the high heritability of TD, these patients may make it possible to use genetic methods to study cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying conscious awareness...
New findings on cortical anatomy and implications for investigating the evolution of languageAllen Braun
Language Section Voice, Speech and Language Branch National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Building 10, Room 5N118A National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Anat Rec A Discov Mol Cell Evol Biol 271:273-5. 2003
Relating neuronal dynamics for auditory object processing to neuroimaging activity: a computational modeling and an fMRI studyF T Husain
Brain Imaging and Modeling Section, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Neuroimage 21:1701-20. 2004..These findings provide support for our hypotheses concerning how auditory objects are processed by primate neocortex...
Dissociated pattern of activity in visual cortices and their projections during human rapid eye movement sleepA R Braun
Language Section, Voice Speech and Language Branch, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Science 279:91-5. 1998....
Words in melody: an H(2)15O PET study of brain activation during singing and speakingK J Jeffries
Language Section, NIDCD, NIH, Building 10, Room 5N118A, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Neuroreport 14:749-54. 2003..Right hemisphere mechanisms may support the fluency-evoking effects of singing in neurological disorders such as stuttering or aphasia...
Electrophysiological evidence of functional integration between the language and motor systems in the brain: a study of the speech BereitschaftspotentialJ J McArdle
Language Section, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Room 5C310, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Clin Neurophysiol 120:275-84. 2009..We anticipated that articulatory complexity would produce effects on the BP distribution similar to those demonstrated for complex limb movements. We also hypothesized that lexical semantic operations would independently impact the BP...
User-friendly software for the analysis of brain lesions (ABLe)Jeffrey Solomon
Medical Numerics, Inc, Germantown, MD, USA
Comput Methods Programs Biomed 86:245-54. 2007..A subset of data from an ongoing traumatic head injury study correlating deficit with brain anatomy is used to demonstrate the power of this software package...
Language in context: emergent features of word, sentence, and narrative comprehensionJiang Xu
Language Section, Voice Speech and Language Branch, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Neuroimage 25:1002-15. 2005..These results underscore the importance of studying language in an ecologically valid context, suggesting a neural model for the processing of discourse...
Neural substrates of graphomotor sequence learning: a combined FMRI and kinematic studyBruce A Swett
Language Section, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Neurophysiol 103:3366-77. 2010..This implies multiple kinematic representations of graphomotor trajectories may be encoded at various spatiotemporal scales...
The functional neuroanatomy of Tourette's syndrome: an FDG PET study III: functional coupling of regional cerebral metabolic ratesK J Jeffries
Language Section, Voice Speech and Language Branch, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Room 5N118A, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Neuropsychopharmacology 27:92-104. 2002..These results lend further credence to the hypothesis that altered limbic-motor interactions represent a pathophysiological hallmark of this disease...
Hierarchical and asymmetric temporal sensitivity in human auditory corticesAnthony Boemio
Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Nat Neurosci 8:389-95. 2005..The data support a model in which sounds are analyzed on two distinct timescales, 25-50 ms and 200-300 ms...
Simulating transcranial magnetic stimulation during PET with a large-scale neural network model of the prefrontal cortex and the visual systemF T Husain
Language Section, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Neuroimage 15:58-73. 2002..We also found that regions both directly and indirectly connected to the stimulating site were affected by TMS...
Prefrontal cortex asymmetry for memory encoding of words and abstract shapesAgnes Floel
Human Cortical Physiology Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health (NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892-1430, USA
Cereb Cortex 14:404-9. 2004..These results demonstrate a functionally relevant lateralization of prefrontal contribution for verbal and nonverbal memory encoding...
Using PET H2O15 brain imaging to study the functional-anatomical correlates of non-human primate communicationRicardo Gil-da-Costa
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
Methods 38:221-6. 2006..Methods for acquiring and analyzing PET data to identify significant regions of brain activity in single animals are also presented...
Effect of attention on central auditory processing: an fMRI studyAndrei Sevostianov
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Int J Neurosci 112:587-606. 2002..Extratemporal regions activated by attending to targets in either ear included the anterior cingulate cortex, supramarginal gyrus, and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex...
Toward an evolutionary perspective on conceptual representation: species-specific calls activate visual and affective processing systems in the macaqueRicardo Gil-da-Costa
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institute of Mental Health, and Positron Emission Tomography Department, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:17516-21. 2004..These findings shed light on the evolutionary precursors of conceptual representation in humans, suggesting that monkeys and humans have a common neural substrate for representing object concepts...
Neural correlates of human action observation in hearing and deaf subjectsDavid Corina
Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, USA
Brain Res 1152:111-29. 2007..These results suggest that during human motion processing, deaf individuals may engage specialized neural systems that allow for rapid, online differentiation of meaningful linguistic actions from non-linguistic human movements...
