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Cortical regions supporting reading comprehension skill for single words and discourse

Abstract

A substantial amount of variation in reading comprehension skill is explained by listening comprehension skill, suggesting tight links between printed and spoken discourse processing. In addition, both word level (e.g., vocabulary) and discourse-level sub-skills (e.g., inference-making) support overall comprehension. However, while these contributions to variation in comprehension skill have been well-studied behaviorally, the underlying …

Authors

Ryherd K; Jasinska K; Van Dyke JA; Hung Y-H; Baron E; Mencl WE; Zevin J; Landi N

Journal

Brain and Language, Vol. 186, , pp. 32–43

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

November 2018

DOI

10.1016/j.bandl.2018.08.001

ISSN

0093-934X