Word comprehension, however, across grammatical categories was comparable across groups.
Neuroimaging and neuropsychological studies identify a fronto-temporal network important for word comprehension.
However, little is known about the connectional architecture subserving controlled retrieval and selection of semantic knowledge during word comprehension.
This result suggests the semantic control impairment in word comprehension resulted from poor neural communication between regions the UF connects.
However, the precise impact of semantic memory deficits on word comprehension, particularly across grammatical categories, has not been adequately investigated in these disorders.
A new word definition task examined word comprehension across grammatical categories, i.e. nouns, verbs and adjectives, and was designed to overcome the ceiling effect.
We conclude that the UF mediates semantic control during word comprehension by connecting regions specialized for cognitive control with those storing word meanings.
This increased level of joint attention aids in encouraging normal language development, including word comprehension and production.
The goal of this study was first to replicate the discrepancy between reading and listening word comprehension in reading disability.
This modality-specific deficit provides new evidence accounting for the discrepancy between visual and auditory word comprehension in children with reading disability.
However, our study additionally suggests that visual word comprehension deficits in reading disability may be due in part to a deficit in the direct mapping from orthography to semantics.
