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https://twitter.com/JamieReilly_cog/status/1639643481210515456vWFA: It is not debated that in most proficient readers a highly specialized region exists on the bottom of the left ventral temporal lobe that responds to printed words and letter strings (not differentially). First evidence of robust response selectivity came from
https://twitter.com/wmatchin/status/1311803481217523717The latter is most relevant to your question: because lang areas in both frontal and temporal cortex lay adjacent to numerous functionally distinct areas, and precisely because lesions do not respect functional boundaries, any given lesion is likely to affect multiple areas. 2/n
https://twitter.com/OlessiaJour/status/1306240239170711557#1: use of group analyses (=> Apparent reduction in activity in some brain areas in ASD at the group level may simply reflect higher variability in the locations of the functional regions)
https://twitter.com/LanguageMIT/status/1303393597241405440This paper releases the audio recordings, the SPR data, and some annotations. We also have eye-tracking data (with @tmalsburg and @roger_p_levy) and a bunch of fMRI data, all to be released soon.
https://twitter.com/OlessiaJour/status/1296904145807515650Population: 17 polyglots, all native speakers of English; median number of langs spoken with some level of proficiency =7 (mean =13.9, range: 5–55!). 9/17 polyglots qualified as “hyper-polyglots,” having some knowledge of 10 or more languages (Erard, 2012).