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 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 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 ...

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 ...

5-, 9-, and 11-year-old children performed a spatial recall task consisting of 4, 5, 6, or 7 items presented successively. Items were either visual (pictures) or auditory (spoken names of the pictures ...

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 ...