Publications by authors named "Rebecca Marchetti"
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- The planum temporale (PT) area in the left hemisphere is crucial for language development and is found to be asymmetrical in both humans and newborn baboons, indicating a possible pre-wired language readiness in the brain.
- Research showed that 27 newborn baboons with a larger left PT were more likely to develop right-handed communication gestures as they matured, suggesting a link between early brain structure and future communicative behavior.
- This study implies that PT asymmetry might represent an evolutionary trait that underlies shared gestural communication in both monkeys and humans.
Phonemic processing skills are impaired both in children and adults with dyslexia. Since phoneme representation development is based on articulatory gestures, it is likely that these gestures influence oral reading-related skills as assessed through phonemic awareness tasks. In our study, fifty-two young dyslexic adults, with and without motor impairment, and fifty-nine skilled readers performed reading, phonemic awareness, and articulatory tasks.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSensorimotor disorders have been frequently reported in children and adults with dyslexia over the past 30 years. The present study aimed to determine the impact of sensorimotor comorbidity risks in dyslexia by investigating the functional links between phonological and sensorimotor representations in young dyslexic adults. Using 52 dyslexic participants and 58 normo-readers, we investigated whether the underlying phonological deficit, which is reported in the literature, was associated with a general impairment of sensorimotor representations of articulatory and bodily actions.
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