Shared premotor activity in spoken and written communication.

abstract：:A 3-year-old, right-handed girl developed a conduction-type aphasia following a second generalized seizure in the setting of a developing abscess involving left subcortical and cortical angular gyrus and arcuate fasciculus, and the posterior corpus callosum. The language disorder was fluent, characterized by age appro...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Nass R,Leventhal F,Levine B,Lebron D,Maxfield C,McCaul P,George A,Allen J

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain may use two strategies to recover from poststroke aphasia: the structural repair of primarily speech-relevant regions or the activation of compensatory areas. We studied the cortical metabolic recovery in aphasic stroke patients with positron emission tomography (PET) at rest and during word repetition. The ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Karbe H,Thiel A,Weber-Luxenburger G,Herholz K,Kessler J,Heiss WD

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report presents findings for a set of dizygotic twins at age 4 years 9 months. The male was diagnosed as specifically language impaired. For both children, the left-right perisylvian configuration was atypical. Only the male's configuration was symmetrical, a finding in line with autopsy data reported for subject...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Plante E,Swisher L,Vance R

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) was first recognized by Mesulam in 1982. Although dozens of cases have since been described, it has been difficult to place these cases into a coherent framework due to the wide variation in measures which have been reported. We review 170 contacts with 112 patients to provide a clini...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Westbury C,Bub D

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilingual individuals have been shown to outperform monolinguals on a variety of tasks that measure non-linguistic executive functioning, suggesting that some facets of the bilingual experience give rise to generalized improvements in cognitive performance. The current study investigated the hypothesis that such advan...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Stocco A,Prat CS

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linguistic analysis suggests that numeral classifiers carry quantity information. However, previous neuroimaging studies have shown that classifiers did not elicit higher activation in the intraparietal sulcus (IPS), associated with representation of numerical magnitude, than tool nouns did. This study aimed to contro...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Her OS,Chen YC,Yen NS

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a subject with a selective verb retrieval deficit. Nouns were produced more successfully than verbs in spontaneous speech, picture naming and when naming to definition. The word class effect was not observed in comprehension tasks, reading aloud or writing. This indicated that it was due to a speci...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Marshall J,Pring T,Chiat S

更新日期：1998-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Positron Emission Tomography (PET) was used to determine regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) when eight normal right-handed males read and made acceptability judgments about sentences. rCBF was greater in Broca's area (particularly in the pars opercularis) when subjects judged the semantic plausibility of syntacticall...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Stromswold K,Caplan D,Alpert N,Rauch S

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study is based on an on-line investigation of spoken language comprehension processes in 25 French-speaking aphasics using a syllable-monitoring task. Nonsense syllables were presented in three different conditions: context-free (embedded in strings of nonsense syllables), lexical context (where the target nonsens...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Metz-Lutz MN,Wioland F,Brock G

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This research examines the nature of acoustic-phonetic impairments found in aphasia, and the reliability of patient performance on phoneme discrimination and identification tasks. Aphasic patients were tested on three phoneme discrimination tasks examining their ability to discriminate items on the basis of contrasts ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Gow DW Jr,Caplan D

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathophysiology of developmental or acquired stuttering still remains an enigma. In a few cases, the developmental stuttering that had disappeared spontaneously or as a result of therapy reoccurred following a brain lesion. We report on a patient with return of developmental stuttering following a left hemispheric...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Mouradian MS,Paslawski T,Shuaib A

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apraxia of Speech (AOS) is an impairment of motor programming. However, the exact nature of this deficit remains unclear. The present study examined motor programming in AOS in the context of a recent two-stage model [Klapp, S. T. (1995). Motor response programming during simple and choice reaction time: The role of p...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Maas E,Robin DA,Wright DL,Ballard KJ

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of recent studies have argued that grammatical illusions can arise in the process of completing linguistic dependencies, such that unlicensed material is temporarily treated as licensed due to the presence of a potential licensor that is semantically appropriate but in a syntactically inappropriate position. ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Xiang M,Dillon B,Phillips C

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of cerebral specialization in persons with Down syndrome (DS) has revealed an anomalous pattern of organization. Specifically, dichotic listening studies (e.g., Elliott & Weeks, 1993) have suggested a left ear/right hemisphere dominance for speech perception for persons with DS. In the current investigation,...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Heath M,Elliott D

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of CV syllables was studied in a backward masking paradigm in order to examine two types of interactions observed between dichotically presented speech sounds: the feature sharing effect and the lag effect. Pairs of syllables differed in the consonant, the vowel, and their relative times of onset. Inter...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Pisoni DB,McNabb SD

更新日期：1974-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to introduce a Swedish version of the Boston Naming Test and to offer normative data based on a sample of native Swedish-speaking healthy adults stratified concerning age, gender, and length of education. The subjects were assessed with other lexical tests and half of the group als...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Tallberg IM

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forward masked word primes that differed from the target in the initial, the final or both the initial and final positions tended to slow target decision latencies and there were no significant differences among prime types. After forward masked nonword primes we observed non significant facilitation when primes diffe...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Janack T,Pastizzo MJ,Beth Feldman L

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1906, Pierre Marie triggered a heated controversy and an exchange of articles with Jules Déjerine over the localization of language functions in the human brain. The debate spread internationally. One of the timeliest responses, that appeared in print 1 month after Marie's paper, came from Christofredo Jakob, a Bav...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Tsapkini K,Vivas AB,Triarhou LC

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of the present research was to provide direct evidence for the cross-language interaction of phonologies at the sub-lexical level by using the masked onset priming paradigm. More specifically, we investigated whether there is a cross-language masked onset priming effect (MOPE) with L2 (English) primes and L1 ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Jouravlev O,Lupker SJ,Jared D

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes the case of a global alexic patient with a severe reading deficit affecting words, letters and Arabic numbers, following a left posterior lesion. The patient (VA) could not match spoken letters to their graphic form. A preserved ability to recognize shape and canonical orientation of letters indic...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Volpato C,Bencini G,Meneghello F,Piron L,Semenza C

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The traditional clinical picture for English nonfluent aphasics has generally presented the deficit as one of total loss of control over grammatical morphology, with some sparing of word order. This is at odds with recent research involving nonfluent aphasic speakers of highly inflected languages, which has shown that...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Kilborn K

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Readers acquire information outside the current eye fixation. Previous research indicates that having only the fixated word available slows reading, but when the next word is visible, reading is almost as fast as when the whole line is seen. Parafoveal-on-foveal effects are interpreted to reflect that the characterist...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Simola J,Holmqvist K,Lindgren M

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies have been conducted to measure monaural azimuthal sound localization performance with different sounds varying in frequency and complexity, but few have used linguistic stimuli. The present experimental design used subjects' first names in a monaural azimuthal localization task. Analysis of response accur...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Muller BS,Bovet P

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We are interested in the validation of a cognitive theory of human communication, grounded in a speech acts perspective. The theory we refer to is outlined, and a number of predictions are drawn from it. We report a series of protocols administered to 13 brain-injured subjects and to a comparable control group. The ta...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Bara BG,Tirassa M,Zettin M

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain activity associated with automatic semantic priming has been extensively studied. Thus far there has been no prior study that directly contrasts the neural mechanisms of semantic and affective priming. The present study employed event-related fMRI to examine the common and distinct neural bases underlying co...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Liu H,Hu Z,Peng D,Yang Y,Li K

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:White matter tracts connecting areas involved in speech and motor control were examined using diffusion-tensor imaging in a sample of people who stutter (n=29) who were heterogeneous with respect to age, sex, handedness and stuttering severity. The goals were to replicate previous findings in developmental stuttering ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Connally EL,Ward D,Howell P,Watkins KE

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutism following brain trauma is quite common, is usually transient, and recovery of speech is essentially the rule. Lasting total absence of speech without aphasia is highly unusual. Three such patients, two of traumatic and one due to vascular origin showing buccofacial apraxia (BFA) and computerized tomography (CT)...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Groswasser Z,Korn C,Groswasser-Reider I,Solzi P

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the effects of morphological complexity on aphasic speakers with lexical-phonological output deficits. Subjects were two fluent and two nonfluent aphasic speakers who repeated morphologically simple words at the same level of accuracy and whose errors were virtually all phonological in nature. They...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Kohn SE,Melvold J

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present article examines whether derivational morphology shows evidence of an associative memory structure. A distributional analysis of stems of attested derivational forms revealed evidence of clustering around phonological properties (gangs) for all nonneutral affixes but only a few neutral affixes. Subjects' a...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Alegre M,Gordon P

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven severely nonfluent aphasics and one relative or close friend were investigated in an interview situation. The conversation was videotaped and analyzed for the use of nonverbal communication between aphasic and partner. The results indicate that the group of aphasics used significantly more frequently and for a s...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Herrmann M,Reichle T,Lucius-Hoene G,Wallesch CW,Johannsen-Horbach H

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00