Members of the Laboratory for Computational Neuroimaging (LCN) at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging are exploring new ways to conduct basic, clinical, and cognitive neuroscience research through the use of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging technologies.
Though diacritics are a central feature of Arabic reading, their cognitive and neural effects remain less well understood. The present study used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate differences between brain activation patterns associated with real words with versus without diacritics in adult Arabic readers using a lexical decision task. We found no significant difference in accuracy between real words with and without diacritics.
