The advent of functional neuroimaging has allowed tremendous advances in our
understanding of brain–language relationships, in addition to generating substantial …

To evaluate the relative role of left and right hemispheres (RH) and describe the functional
anatomy of RH during ortholinguistic tasks, we re-analyzed the 128 papers of a former left …

This book is about mental imagery and the important work it does in our mental life. It plays a
crucial role in the vast majority of our perceptual episodes. It also helps us understand many …

The pupillary light response is an important automatic physiological response which
optimizes light reaching the retina. Recent work has shown that the pupil also adjusts in …

The brain activation of a group of high-functioning autistic participants was measured using
functional MRI during sentence comprehension and the results compared with those of a …

In this paper we explore the bi-directional map** between images and their sentence-
based descriptions. Critical to our approach is a recurrent neural network that attempts to …

This book updates the Dual Coding Theory of mind (DCT), a theory of modern human
cognition consisting of separate but interconnected nonverbal and verbal systems. Allan …

Imagery and Text, Second Edition extends the first edition's unified theory of cognition in
literacy from the perspective of Dual Coding Theory (DCT), one of the most influential and …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Parent-child reading is widely advocated to promote
cognitive development, including in recommendations from the American Academy of …

Narratives enable readers to vividly experience fictional and non-fictional contexts. Writers
use a variety of language features to control these experiences: they direct readers in how to …