Written language is an evolutionarily recent human invention; consequently, its neural substrates cannot be determined by the genetic code. How, then, does the brain incorporate skills of this type? One possibility is that written language is dependent on evolutionarily older skills, such as spoken language; another is that dedicated substrates develop with expertise. If written language does d...

BACKGROUND A study of linguistic and narrative variables in oral and written language disorder. AIM To characterize the linguistic and narrative productivity, oral and written productions, of scholars with oral and written language disorder. METHOD Oral and written narrative productions of 30 scholars from public schools (male and female aged 7 to 13 years) were compared. These individuals ...

We present a work in progress on machine learning of affect in human verbal communications. We identify semantic verb categories that capture essential properties when human communication combines spoken and written language properties. Information Extraction methods then are used to construct verb-based features that represent texts in machine learning experiments. Our empirical results show t...

Neurology Bassel Abou-Khalil and Bradley L. Schlaggar Is it time to replace the Wada test? This information is current as of January 12, 2006 http://www.neurology.org/cgi/content/full/59/2/160 the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated information and services, is located on ISSN: 0028-3878. Online ISSN: 1526-632X. Print published continuously since 1951. Copy...

This paper reports on four species, in three genera within two families (Ameroseiidae, Digamasellidae) of soil-inhabiting mesostigmatic mites Turkey: Ameroseius lidiae Bregetova; sculptilis Berlese; Kleemannia nova Nasr and Abou-Awad Dendrolaelaspis lobatus (Shcherbak Chelebiev). The important diagnostic characters each species are reviewed to facilitate delimitation. genus Lindquist is reporte...