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Caplan, David; DeDe, Gayle; Brownell, Hiram – Brain and Language, 2006
We reanalyzed the data in Drai and Grodzinksy (2005), considering individual patients' responses to different sentence types to be non-independent events. The analyses revealed effects of two of the three factors identified by Drai and Grodzinsky-constituent movement and passive mood. The result is inconsistent with the trace deletion hypothesis;…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Syntax, Comprehension, Aphasia
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Baldo, Juliana V.; Klostermann, Ellen C.; Dronkers, Nina F. – Brain and Language, 2008
Patients with conduction aphasia have been characterized as having a short-term memory deficit that leads to relative difficulty on span and repetition tasks. It has also been observed that these same patients often get the gist of what is said to them, even if they are unable to repeat the information verbatim. To study this phenomenon…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Semantics, Aphasia
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de Bree, Elise; Janse, Esther; van de Zande, Anne Marie – Brain and Language, 2007
This paper investigates stress assignment in Dutch aphasic patients in non-word repetition, as well as in real-word and non-word reading. Performance on the non-word reading task was similar for the aphasic patients and the control group, as mainly regular stress was assigned to the targets. However, there were group differences on the real-word…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Aphasia, Error Patterns, Patients
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Drai, Dan; Grodzinsky, Yosef – Brain and Language, 2006
Behavioral variation in Broca's aphasia has been characterized as boundless, calling into question the validity of the syndrome-based schema and related diagnostic methods of acquired language disorders. More generally, this putative variability has cast serious doubts on the feasibility of localizing linguistic operations in cortex. We present a…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Patients, Syntax, Sentences
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Su, Yi-ching.; Lee, Shu-er; Chung, Yuh-mei – Brain and Language, 2007
This study examines the comprehension patterns of various sentence types by Mandarin-speaking aphasic patients and evaluates the validity of the predictions from the Trace-Deletion Hypothesis (TDH) and the Double Dependency Hypothesis (DDH). Like English, the canonical word order in Mandarin is SVO, but the two languages differ in that the head…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Patients, Syntax, Mandarin Chinese
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Arevalo, A.; Perani, D.; Cappa, S. F.; Butler, A.; Bates, E.; Dronkers, N. – Brain and Language, 2007
The processing of words and pictures representing actions and objects was tested in 21 aphasic patients and 20 healthy controls across three word production tasks: picture-naming (PN), single word reading (WR) and word repetition (WRP). Analysis (1) targeted task and lexical category (noun-verb), revealing worse performance on PN and verb items…
Descriptors: Nouns, Verbs, Aphasia, Patients
Berndt, Rita Sloan; Haendiges, Anne N.; Mitchum, Charlotte C. – Brain and Language, 2005
Aphasic patients with reading impairments frequently substitute incorrect real words for target words when reading aloud. Many of these word substitutions have substantial orthographic overlap with their targets and are classified as ''visual errors'' (i.e., sharing 50% of targets' letters in the same relative position). Fifteen chronic aphasic…
Descriptors: Patients, Dyslexia, Aphasia
Naeser, M.A.; Martin, P.I.; Nicholas, M.; Baker, E.H.; Seekins, H.; Kobayashi, M.; Theoret, H.; Fregni, F.; Maria-Tormos, J.; Kurland, J.; Doron, K.W.; Pascual-Leone, A. – Brain and Language, 2005
Functional imaging studies with nonfluent aphasia patients have observed ''over-activation'' in right (R) language homologues. This may represent a maladaptive strategy; suppression may result in language improvement. We applied slow, 1 Hz repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to an anterior portion of R Broca's homologue daily, for…
Descriptors: Patients, Aphasia, Neuropsychology
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Milman, Lisa H.; Dickey, Michael Walsh; Thompson, Cynthia K. – Brain and Language, 2008
Hierarchical models of agrammatism propose that sentence production deficits can be accounted for in terms of clausal syntactic structure [Friedmann, N., & Grodzinsky, Y. (1997). "Tense and agreement in agrammatic production: Pruning the syntactic tree." "Brain and Language, 56", 397-425; Hagiwara, H. (1995). "The breakdown of functional…
Descriptors: Verbs, Syntax, Patients, Program Effectiveness
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Heiss, W.-D.; Thiel, A. – Brain and Language, 2006
Activation studies in patients with aphasia due to stroke or tumours in the dominant hemisphere have revealed effects of disinhibition in ipsilateral perilesional and in contralateral homotopic cortical regions, referred to as collateral and transcallosal disinhibition. These findings were supported by studies with selective disturbance of…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Patients, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Inhibition
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Kittredge, Audrey; Davis, Lissa; Blumstein, Sheila E. – Brain and Language, 2006
In a series of experiments, the effect of white noise distortion and talker variation on lexical access in normal and Broca's aphasic participants was examined using an auditory lexical decision paradigm. Masking the prime stimulus in white noise resulted in reduced semantic priming for both groups, indicating that lexical access is degraded by…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Acoustics, Auditory Stimuli, Patients
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Mavis, Ilknur – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2007
Recent studies on awareness have drawn attention to the fact that aphasia is a little known disorder to the public, in spite of all the publicity about this frequently occurring neurogenic language disorder. Being a very new concept, studies of awareness are rare in Turkey. This survey study assessed the extent of public awareness of neurological…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Publicity, Patients, Neurology
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LaFrance, Caroline; Garcia, Linda J.; Labreche, Julianne – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2007
Little evidence-based research has been published within the field of communication disorders on the role of dogs as catalysts for human communication. This single participant study, a point of entry into this realm of research, explores the effects of a therapy dog on the communication skills of a patient with aphasia receiving intensive speech…
Descriptors: Therapy, Patients, Communication Skills, Aphasia
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Becker, Frank; Reinvang, Ivar – Brain and Language, 2007
This study used the event-related brain potential mismatch negativity (MMN) to investigate preconscious discrimination of harmonically rich tones (differing in duration) and consonant-vowel syllables (differing in the initial consonant) in aphasia. Eighteen Norwegian aphasic patients, examined on average 3 months after brain injury, were compared…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Auditory Discrimination, Phonemes, Syllables
Clark, D.G.; Charuvastra, A.; Miller, B.L.; Shapira, J.S.; Mendez, M.F. – Brain and Language, 2005
To better characterize fluent and nonfluent variants of primary progressive aphasia (PPA). Although investigators have recognized both fluent and nonfluent patients with PPA (Mesulam, 2001), the clinical and neuroimaging features of these variants have not been fully defined. We present clinical and neuropsychological data on 47 PPA patients…
Descriptors: Semantics, Patients, Aphasia, Reading Difficulties
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