Publications by authors named "Whitney Anne Postman-Caucheteux"
J Cogn Neurosci
June 2010
Article Synopsis
- Researchers used fMRI to study brain activity during language production in stroke patients with chronic aphasia, focusing on both damaged (perilesional) and undamaged (contralesional) areas of the brain.
- They found that both correct and incorrect naming responses activated the left side of the brain, but incorrect responses were linked to increased activity in the right side, specifically the right inferior frontal gyrus, indicating a struggle with naming.
- The study concluded that although some right frontal activation might usually indicate naming difficulties, in aphasia patients, excessive right frontal activity suggests poor compensatory effort when the damaged left side can't effectively handle language tasks.
