N F Dronkers

Summary

Affiliation: University of California
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Paul Broca's historic cases: high resolution MR imaging of the brains of Leborgne and Lelong
    N F Dronkers
    VA Northern California Health Care System, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
    Brain 130:1432-41. 2007
  2. ncbi Lesion analysis of the brain areas involved in language comprehension
    Nina F Dronkers
    VA Northern California Health Care System, Martinez, CA 94553, USA
    Cognition 92:145-77. 2004
  3. ncbi Is relational reasoning dependent on language? A voxel-based lesion symptom mapping study
    Juliana V Baldo
    Center for Aphasia and Related Disorders, VA Northern California Health Care System, Martinez, California, United States
    Brain Lang 113:59-64. 2010
  4. ncbi It's either a cook or a baker: patients with conduction aphasia get the gist but lose the trace
    Juliana V Baldo
    VA Northern California Health Care System, Center for Aphasia and Related Disorders, Martinez, CA 94553, USA
    Brain Lang 105:134-40. 2008
  5. ncbi Neural correlates of arithmetic and language comprehension: a common substrate?
    Juliana V Baldo
    VA Northern California Health Care System, Martinez, CA 94553, USA
    Neuropsychologia 45:229-35. 2007
  6. ncbi Is problem solving dependent on language?
    Juliana V Baldo
    Department of Psychology, Scripps College, Claremont, CA, USA
    Brain Lang 92:240-50. 2005
  7. ncbi The role of inferior parietal and inferior frontal cortex in working memory
    Juliana V Baldo
    Center for Aphasia and Related Disorders, Veterans Affairs Northern California Health Care System, Martinez, CA 94553, USA
    Neuropsychology 20:529-38. 2006
  8. ncbi An overview on Primary Progressive Aphasia and its variants
    Serena Amici
    Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, USA
    Behav Neurol 17:77-87. 2006
  9. ncbi Action comprehension in aphasia: linguistic and non-linguistic deficits and their lesion correlates
    Ayse Pinar Saygin
    Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive 0515, La Jolla, CA 92093 0515, USA
    Neuropsychologia 42:1788-804. 2004
  10. ncbi Voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping
    Elizabeth Bates
    Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, California 92093, USA
    Nat Neurosci 6:448-50. 2003

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Publications14

  1. ncbi Paul Broca's historic cases: high resolution MR imaging of the brains of Leborgne and Lelong
    N F Dronkers
    VA Northern California Health Care System, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
    Brain 130:1432-41. 2007
    ....
  2. ncbi Lesion analysis of the brain areas involved in language comprehension
    Nina F Dronkers
    VA Northern California Health Care System, Martinez, CA 94553, USA
    Cognition 92:145-77. 2004
    ..These results are consistent with those seen in recent functional neuroimaging studies and offer complementary data in the effort to understand the brain areas underlying language comprehension...
  3. ncbi Is relational reasoning dependent on language? A voxel-based lesion symptom mapping study
    Juliana V Baldo
    Center for Aphasia and Related Disorders, VA Northern California Health Care System, Martinez, California, United States
    Brain Lang 113:59-64. 2010
    ..These findings provide compelling support for the idea that language is critical for higher-level reasoning and problem-solving...
  4. ncbi It's either a cook or a baker: patients with conduction aphasia get the gist but lose the trace
    Juliana V Baldo
    VA Northern California Health Care System, Center for Aphasia and Related Disorders, Martinez, CA 94553, USA
    Brain Lang 105:134-40. 2008
    ....
  5. ncbi Neural correlates of arithmetic and language comprehension: a common substrate?
    Juliana V Baldo
    VA Northern California Health Care System, Martinez, CA 94553, USA
    Neuropsychologia 45:229-35. 2007
    ..These findings are discussed in light of previous work on the neural basis of arithmetic ability and its relationship to language...
  6. ncbi Is problem solving dependent on language?
    Juliana V Baldo
    Department of Psychology, Scripps College, Claremont, CA, USA
    Brain Lang 92:240-50. 2005
    ..Together, these findings suggest that language plays a role in complex problem solving, possibly through covert language processes...
  7. ncbi The role of inferior parietal and inferior frontal cortex in working memory
    Juliana V Baldo
    Center for Aphasia and Related Disorders, Veterans Affairs Northern California Health Care System, Martinez, CA 94553, USA
    Neuropsychology 20:529-38. 2006
    ..These findings lend further support to the working memory model and provide evidence of the roles of IP and IF cortex in separable working memory processes...
  8. ncbi An overview on Primary Progressive Aphasia and its variants
    Serena Amici
    Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, USA
    Behav Neurol 17:77-87. 2006
    ..The neuroimaging analysis showed left perisylvian region involvement. A comprehensive cognitive, neuroimaging and pathological approach is necessary to identify the clinical and pathogenetic features of different PPA variants...
  9. ncbi Action comprehension in aphasia: linguistic and non-linguistic deficits and their lesion correlates
    Ayse Pinar Saygin
    Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive 0515, La Jolla, CA 92093 0515, USA
    Neuropsychologia 42:1788-804. 2004
    ..Similar findings have been reported in electrophysiological and neuroimaging studies. Our findings now also lend neuropsychological support to an embodied view of brain organization for action processing...
  10. ncbi Voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping
    Elizabeth Bates
    Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, California 92093, USA
    Nat Neurosci 6:448-50. 2003
  11. ncbi Neural resources for processing language and environmental sounds: evidence from aphasia
    Ayse Pinar Saygin
    Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093 0515, USA
    Brain 126:928-45. 2003
    ..This suggests that language shares neural resources with those used for processing information in other domains...
  12. ncbi Exploring the processing continuum of single-word comprehension in aphasia
    Suzanne Moineau
    Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communication Disorders corrected University of California, San Diego San Diego State University corrected USA
    J Speech Lang Hear Res 48:884-96. 2005
    ....
  13. ncbi Role of frontal versus temporal cortex in verbal fluency as revealed by voxel-based lesion symptom mapping
    Juliana V Baldo
    Center for Aphasia and Related Disorders, VA Northern California Health Care System, Martinez, California 94553, USA
    J Int Neuropsychol Soc 12:896-900. 2006
    ..Our findings are therefore consistent with the hypothesis that temporal cortex subserves word retrieval constrained by semantics, whereas frontal regions are more critical for strategic word retrieval constrained by phonology...
  14. ncbi Cognition and anatomy in three variants of primary progressive aphasia
    Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini
    Department of Neurology, UCSF Memory and Aging Center, University of California San Francisco, 350 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    Ann Neurol 55:335-46. 2004
    ..Cognitive, genetic, and anatomical features indicate that different PPA clinical variants may correspond to different underlying pathological processes...