Morphological brain changes as a consequence of new learning have been widely established. Learning a second language (L2) is one such experience that can lead to rapid structural neural changes. However, still relatively little is known about how levels of proficiency in the L2 and the age at which the L2 is learned influence brain neuroplasticity. The goal of this study is to provide novel ev...

Judgments about personalities and social traits can be made by relatively brief exposure to animate living things. Here we show that unusual architecture in the microstructure of the human brain is related to atypical mental projections of personality and social structure onto things that are neither living nor animate. Our participants experience automatic, life-long and consistent crossmodal ...

Background: In certain regions of the brain, aphasia arises from a lack understanding and regulating language following damage. About 35–40 percent people receiving hospitalization after stroke are identified with aphasia. The recently developed imaging methods for analysis impact brain lesion sites sizes on Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) Fractional Anisotropy (FA). order to reflect micro-struc...

The paper presents the re e tion fa ilities of the spe i ation language Slam-sl. Slam-sl is an obje t oriented spei ation language where lass methods are spe i ed by pre and post onditions. The re e tion apabilities permit managing these pre and post onditions in spe i ations what means that semanti re e tion is possible. The range of interesting appli ations is very wide: formal spe i ation of...

This study aims at testing the hypothesis that neurodevelopmental abilities at age 2 years are related with local brain microstructure of preterm infants at term equivalent age. Forty-one preterm infants underwent brain MRI with diffusion tensor imaging sequences to measure mean diffusivity (MD), fractional anisotropy (FA), longitudinal and transverse diffusivity (λ// and λ[perpendicular]) at t...

ABSTRACT The su ess of aspe t-oriented programming (AOP) raises and falls with user-friendly tool support. With Aspe tJ1 the rst omplete and powerful language extension for AOP has been reated. With this paper we intend to extend the Aspe tJ approa h to C/C++. We will present and dis uss a proposal for a set of language extensions we all Aspe tC++ to fa ilitate aspe t-oriented programming with ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Knowledge of the anatomic basis of aphasia after stroke has both theoretic and clinical implications by informing models of cortical connectivity and providing data for diagnosis and prognosis. In this study we use diffusion tensor imaging to address the relationship between damage to specific white matter tracts and linguistic deficits after left hemisphere stroke. MAT...