Investigating Gray and White Matter Structural Substrates of Sex Differences in the Narrative Abilities of Healthy Adults.

ABSTRACT: Linguistic aspects of narration have been investigated in healthy populations, in a wide variety of languages and speech genres with very different results. There is some evidence indicating that linguistic elements, such as speech rate (i.e., the measure indicating the amount of speech produced in a certain time period), mean length of utterance (MLU) (i.e., the index reflecting sentence grammatical structure), frequency of nouns and verbs, might be affected by non-linguistic factors such as sex. On the other hand, despite the existence of neuroimaging evidence of structural differences between males and females, it is yet unknown how such differences could explain between-sex disparities in linguistic abilities in natural speech contexts. To date, no study has evaluated discourse product

SUBMITTER: Angelopoulou G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7000661 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature