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SUMMARY:Building the supramodal language brain - Professor Donald Shankwei
 ler\, Haskins Laboratories
DTSTART:20120621T100000Z
DTEND:20120621T110000Z
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CONTACT:Nichola Daily
DESCRIPTION:The potential to derive equivalent meanings from speech and pr
 int is one of the most distinctive characteristics of the human brain and 
 one that makes literacy possible. The full achievement of this potential r
 equires years of training\, hence integration of the brain’s response to
  sentence material in the two modalities can be expected to vary as a func
 tion of reading experience. This research exploits functional neuroimaging
  (fMRI) to study the distribution of brain activity during comprehension t
 asks in speech and print modalities in persons who vary in reading skill. 
 Although studies from several laboratories have identified brain regions t
 hat respond similarly to speech and print\, the architecture of the supram
 odal language system has not been fully delineated\, and the influence of 
 reading experience on this architecture has only recently begun to be stud
 ied. Findings of this research support the hypothesis that degrees of read
 ing skill are represented by localized\, graded cortical convergence of pr
 int-generated activity with that emanating from speech. 
LOCATION:Department of Experimental Psychology\, 2nd Floor Seminar Room\, 
 Downing Site
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