Daniela Perani

TL;DR: Unawareness of motor and visual-field defects was investigated in 97 right brain-damaged subjects and both kinds of anosognosia were found to be double-dissociated from more elementary neurological disorders and from personal and extra-personal neglect.

TL;DR: In behavioral studies, Italian students showed faster word and non-word reading than English students and in two PET studies, Italians showed greater activation in left superior temporal regions associated with phoneme processing.

TL;DR: The hypothesis that first language acquisition relies on a dedicated left-hemispheric cerebral network, while late second language acquisition is not necessarily associated with a reproducible biological substrate is supported.

TL;DR: PET was used to measure regional cerebral activity during tasks requiring reading of concrete and abstract nouns and verbs for lexical decision and indicated that abstract word processing was associated with selective activations, which is compatible with the view that lexical-semantic processing of words is mediated by an extensive, predominantly left hemispheric network of brain structures.

TL;DR: Functional magnetic resonance imaging findings support the view that both AOA and PL affect the neural substrates of second language processing, with a differential effect on grammar and semantics.