The anatomy of language has been investigated with PET or fMRI for more than 20years.
Here I attempt to provide an overview of the brain areas associated with heard speech …

Semantic memory refers to knowledge about people, objects, actions, relations, self, and
culture acquired through experience. The neural systems that store and retrieve this …

This paper presents the results of a comprehensive meta-analysis of the relevant imaging
literature on word production (82 experiments). In addition to the spatial overlap of activated …

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

Intersubject variability and subtle differences in experimental design can lead to variable
results in studies of cognitive processes such as reading. To accurately identify the neural …

The first steps in the process of reading a printed word belong to the domain of visual object
perception. They culminate in a representation of letter strings as an ordered set of abstract …

This monograph discusses research, theory, and practice relevant to how children learn to
read English. After an initial overview of writing systems, the discussion summarizes …

Speeded visual word naming and lexical decision performance are reported for 2,428 words
for young adults and healthy older adults. Hierarchical regression techniques were used to …

We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and event-related potentials (ERPs)
to visualize the cerebral processing of unseen masked words. Within the areas associated …

Abstract [Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 139 (4) of
Psychological Bulletin (see record 2012-29656-001). There is an error in Table 1. The …