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Functional organization of activation patterns in children: whole brain fMRI imaging during three different cognitive tasksJ R Booth
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 23:669-82. 1999..Their patterns of activation were consistent with previous functional imaging studies with adults. 4. The child with a left-hemisphere stroke showed evidence of homologous organization in the non-damaged hemisphere...
Neural correlates of orthographic and phonological consistency effects in childrenDonald J Bolger
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
Hum Brain Mapp 29:1416-29. 2008..In general, these results show that the influence of spelling-sound (and sound-spelling) correspondences on processing in fusiform gyrus develops as a function of skill...
Developmental increases in effective connectivity to brain regions involved in phonological processing during tasks with orthographic demandsJames R Booth
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Brain Res 1189:78-89. 2008..All together, these results suggest that there are developmental increases in automatic access into brain regions involved in phonological processing in tasks that require orthographic processing...
Effective brain connectivity in children with reading difficulties during phonological processingFan Cao
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, 2240 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Brain Lang 107:91-101. 2008....
Sex differences in neural processing of language among childrenDouglas D Burman
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Neuropsychologia 46:1349-62. 2008..Activation in the left fusiform region was additionally correlated with performance on standardized language tests in which girls performed better, additional evidence of its role in early sex differences for language...
Children with reading disorder show modality independent brain abnormalities during semantic tasksJames R Booth
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Neuropsychologia 45:775-83. 2007..These deficits appear to be general to the semantic system and independent of modality...
Development of lexical and sentence level context effects for dominant and subordinate word meanings of homonymsJames R Booth
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, 2240 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
J Psycholinguist Res 35:531-54. 2006..These results are discussed in terms of connectionist models of visual word recognition that incorporate distributed attractor principles...
Larger deficits in brain networks for response inhibition than for visual selective attention in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)James R Booth
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 46:94-111. 2005..Brain activation differences between 12 control and 12 attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) children (9- to 12-year-olds) were examined on two cognitive tasks during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)...
Development of brain mechanisms for processing orthographic and phonologic representationsJames R Booth
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, 2240 Campus Drive, Evantson, Illinois, 60208, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 16:1234-49. 2004..The greater activation for adults suggests that they have more interactive convergence between representational systems during lexical processing...
Brain-behavior correlation in children depends on the neurocognitive networkJames R Booth
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
Hum Brain Mapp 23:99-108. 2004..These results show that the relation of performance to the magnitude of neural activation is complex and may display differential relationships based on the cognitive domain, anatomical region, and perhaps also developmental stage...
Neural development of selective attention and response inhibitionJames R Booth
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Neuroimage 20:737-51. 2003..The extensive developmental differences on the response inhibition task are consistent with the prolonged maturation of the fronto-striatal network...
Relation between brain activation and lexical performanceJames R Booth
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
Hum Brain Mapp 19:155-69. 2003....
The development of specialized brain systems in reading and oral-languageJ R Booth
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Child Neuropsychol 7:119-41. 2001....
The role of the basal ganglia and cerebellum in language processingJames R Booth
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Brain Res 1133:136-44. 2007..Based on research in the motor planning and control literature, we argue that the putamen engages in cortical initiation while the cerebellum amplifies and refines this signal to facilitate correct decision making...
Neural correlates of mapping from phonology to orthography in children performing an auditory spelling taskJames R Booth
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, 2240 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Dev Sci 10:441-51. 2007..g. jazz-has). The finding of both a conflict effect and a correlation with accuracy in left inferior frontal gyrus suggests that this region may be involved in resolving the conflict between orthographic and phonological representations...
Developmental and lesion effects in brain activation during sentence comprehension and mental rotationJ R Booth
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, 2299 North Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 3560, USA
Dev Neuropsychol 18:139-69. 2000..The pediatric patients showed patterns of activation consistent with organization of cognitive processing into homologous areas of the contralateral hemisphere...
Specialization of phonological and semantic processing in Chinese word readingJames R Booth
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Brain Res 1071:197-207. 2006....
Developmental changes in the neural correlates of semantic processingTai Li Chou
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, 2240 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Neuroimage 29:1141-9. 2006..The developmental results suggest that older children recruit the right inferior frontal gyrus as they conduct a broader semantic search and the left middle temporal gyrus to provide more efficient access to semantic representations...
Developmental and skill effects on the neural correlates of semantic processing to visually presented wordsTai Li Chou
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Hum Brain Mapp 27:915-24. 2006....
Deficient orthographic and phonological representations in children with dyslexia revealed by brain activation patternsFan Cao
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 47:1041-50. 2006..The greater activation for the controls in inferior frontal gyrus could reflect more effective top-down modulation of posterior representations...
Differential prefrontal-temporal neural correlates of semantic processing in childrenHenrike K Blumenfeld
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, 2240 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Brain Lang 99:226-35. 2006..The low accuracy performers may have an inaccurate or weakly interconnected semantic system that results in greater use of frontal areas in a feature selection process...
Shifts of effective connectivity within a language network during rhyming and spellingTali Bitan
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
J Neurosci 25:5397-403. 2005....
Developmental differences in visual and auditory processing of complex sentencesJ R Booth
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208 3560, USA
Child Dev 71:981-1003. 2000....
Differential effects of orthographic and phonological consistency in cortex for children with and without reading impairmentDonald J Bolger
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, 2240 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Neuropsychologia 46:3210-24. 2008....
Developmental differences of neurocognitive networks for phonological and semantic processing in Chinese word readingFan Cao
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
Hum Brain Mapp 30:797-809. 2009....
Functional anatomy of intra- and cross-modal lexical tasksJames R Booth
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Neuroimage 16:7-22. 2002....
Developmental changes in brain regions involved in phonological and orthographic processing during spoken language processingNadia E Cone
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Neuroimage 41:623-35. 2008....
Neural correlates of priming effects in children during spoken word processing with orthographic demandsFan Cao
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Brain Lang 114:80-9. 2010..Finally, conflict effects but not priming effects were observed in left inferior frontal gyrus, suggesting that this region is involved in resolving conflicting orthographic and phonological information but not in perceptual priming...
Cultural constraints on brain development: evidence from a developmental study of visual word processing in mandarin chineseFan Cao
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60201, USA
Cereb Cortex 20:1223-33. 2010....
Weaker top-down modulation from the left inferior frontal gyrus in childrenTali Bitan
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208 3500, USA
Neuroimage 33:991-8. 2006..Adult language processing may thus involve greater top-down cognitive control compared to children, resulting in less interference from task-irrelevant information...
Bayesian symmetrical EEG/fMRI fusion with spatially adaptive priorsMartin Luessi
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston IL 60208, USA
Neuroimage 55:113-32. 2011..Simulations with synthetic data and experiments with real data from a multimodal study on face perception demonstrate the performance of the proposed method...
Modality independence of word comprehensionJames R Booth
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208 3560, USA
Hum Brain Mapp 16:251-61. 2002....
Developmental changes in activation and effective connectivity in phonological processingTali Bitan
Department of Communication Disorders, Haifa University, Mt Carmel, 32905 Haifa, Israel
Neuroimage 38:564-75. 2007..Our results are consistent with the idea that there is reduced reliance on primary sensory processes as task-relevant processes mature and become more efficient during development...
Item-specific and generalization effects on brain activation when learning Chinese charactersYuan Deng
State Key Lab of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, PR China
Neuropsychologia 46:1864-76. 2008....
The interaction between orthographic and phonological information in children: an fMRI studyTali Bitan
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel
Hum Brain Mapp 28:880-91. 2007..The results suggest that when children encounter inconsistency between orthographic and phonological information they show greater engagement of both orthographic and phonological processing...
Research Grants
- Neural development of lexical processingJames R Booth; Fiscal Year: 2010..The relevance of this grant to biomedical issues is that it has implications for diagnosis and intervention in children with reading and language disorders. ..
- Neural development and disorders of math processingJames R Booth; Fiscal Year: 2010....
- Neural development of lexical processingJames Booth; Fiscal Year: 2007..This grant has implications for diagnosis and intervention in children with reading and language problems ..
- Neural development of lexical processingJames Booth; Fiscal Year: 2006..abstract_text> ..
- Brain activation in developmental communication disorderJames Booth; Fiscal Year: 2004..This project will provide tasks, an experimental approach, and a method for evaluating differences between groups with communication disorders that could potentially be used as a diagnostic and intervention tool. ..
- Neural development and disorders of math processingJames R Booth; Fiscal Year: 2011....
