People with aphasia experience reading challenges affecting participation in daily activities. Researchers have found combined auditory and written presentation modalities help people with aphasia ...

The Journal of Experimental Education, Vol. 81, No. 1 (2013), pp. 123-137 (15 pages) Advocates of modality preference posit that individuals have a dominant sense and that when new material is ...

People with aphasia experience comprehension impairments that hinder participation in daily activities. Presenting information through more than one modality may reduce demands on cognitive resources ...

Researchers in the US and the Netherlands have observed auditory responses in the human somatosensory cortex, a region of the brain usually dedicated to processing touch. They measured functional MRI ...

The modality effect in free recall is enhanced memory for the last few items when presentation is auditory compared with visual. A similar modality effect is found using the through-list distractor ...

Researchers of the HSE Centre for Language and Brain have investigated the impact of both auditory and visual noise on semantic processing during reading to determine if it results in a more ...

An intriguing aspect of the early memories is that remembrances seem to emerge into consciousness in silence. Recalling an early recollection can be like watching an old silent movie. While this may ...