Tim Conway

TL;DR: The two methods of instruction were not differentially effective for children who entered the study with different levels of phonological ability, and the best overall predictors of long-term growth were resource room teacher ratings of attention/behavior, general verbal able, and prior levels of component reading skills.

TL;DR: In this article, the relative effectiveness of three instructional approaches for the prevention of reading disabilities in young children with weak phonological skills was examined, and the most phonemically explicit condition produced the strongest growth in word level reading skills, but there were no differences between groups in reading comprehension.

TL;DR: Six challenges for imaging language functions in aphasia with fMRI are covered, with an emphasis on language production, including selection of a baseline task, structure of language production trials, mitigation of motion-related artifacts, and the use of stimulus onset versus response onset in fMRI analyses.

TL;DR: Functional integrity and efficient recruitment of left frontal language areas seems to be critical for successful word retrieval in old age.

TL;DR: Results showed that in the face of equivalent naming accuracy, older adults activated a larger frontal network than younger adults during word retrieval, but there were no activity differences between groups in the fusiform gyrus, suggesting that increased involvement of the right hemisphere is not universally beneficial to performance.