Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) selectively modulates semantic information during reading.

abstract：:A 13-year-old left-handed boy with a left fronto-parietal vascular malformation evidenced bilateral symmetrical language representation at intracarotid amytal testing. Surgical resection of the parietal motor and frontal premotor area (sparing classical perisylvian language regions) for seizure control resulted in an ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Nass R,Myerson R

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the performance of two aphasic patients in a morphological transformation task. Both patients are Spanish-Catalan bilingual speakers who were diagnosed with agrammatic Broca's aphasia. In the morphological transformation task, the two patients were asked to produce regular and irregular verb forms. The patie...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： de Diego Balaguer R,Costa A,Sebastián-Galles N,Juncadella M,Caramazza A

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the neural basis of human speech control, extensive research has been done using a variety of methodologies in a range of experimental models. Nevertheless, several critical questions about learned vocal motor control still remain open. One of them is the mechanism(s) by which neurotransmitters, such as ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Simonyan K,Horwitz B,Jarvis ED

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The basal ganglia (BG) have long been associated with cognitive control, and it is widely accepted that they also subserve an indirect, control role in language. Nevertheless, it cannot be completely ruled out that the BG may be involved in language in some domain-specific manner. The present study aimed to investigat...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Chan SH,Ryan L,Bever TG

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been known that lesions in the left inferior frontal gyrus (L. IFG) do not always cause Broca's aphasia, casting doubt upon the specificity of this region. We have previously devised a picture-sentence matching task for a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, and observed that both pars triangular...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Kinno R,Muragaki Y,Hori T,Maruyama T,Kawamura M,Sakai KL

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to cortical lesions, mounting evidence on the links between language and the subcortical regions suggests that subcortical lesions may also lead to the emergence of aphasic symptoms. In this paper, by emphasizing the domain-general function of the basal ganglia in both language and music, we highlight that...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Shi ER,Zhang Q

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We review features of the spelling errors of dysgraphic patients with "Graphemic Buffer Disorder" (GBD). We argue that the errors made by such patients suggest the breakdown of a system used to generate serial order in the output stages of spelling production, and we develop a model for this system based on an existin...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Glasspool DW,Houghton G

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-four children (4-17 years) with unilateral left (N = 14) or right (N = 10) hemisphere damage and 24 age-matched controls were tested on their ability to presuppose the truth of factive sentences e.g., "Max knew that he locked the door," and to infer the truth or falsity of implicative sentences "Max remembered ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Eisele JA,Lust B,Aram DM

更新日期：1998-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Copyright ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Snyder PJ

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we investigate the production of verb inflection in agrammatic aphasia. In a number of recent studies it has been argued that tense inflection is harder to produce for agrammatic individuals than agreement inflection. However, results are still inconclusive, at least for Dutch and German. Here, we report...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Kok P,van Doorn A,Kolk H

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naming treatment outcomes in post-stroke aphasia are variable and the factors underlying this variability are incompletely understood. In this study, 26 patients with chronic aphasia completed a semantic judgment fMRI task before receiving up to 12 weeks of naming treatment. Global (i.e., network-wide) and local (i.e....

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Johnson JP,Meier EL,Pan Y,Kiran S

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies demonstrating a right hemisphere lateralization of musical, tonal, and intonational stimuli had suggested that in aphasic tone language speakers, the tonal phonemes might be subject to a lesser degree of deficit than consonantal phonemes. Using a word repetition task, this research demonstrates that l...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Packard JL

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Similar to linguistic stimuli, music can also prime the meaning of a subsequent word. However, it is so far unknown what is the brain dynamics underlying the semantic priming effect induced by music, and its relation to language. To elucidate these issues, we compare the brain oscillatory response to visual words that...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Barraza P,Chavez M,Rodríguez E

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors studied the effect of morphological complexity on working memory in list recall tasks with base words (boy), inflected words (boy + 's) and derived words (boy + hood) in a morphologically rich language: Finnish. Simple serial recall was compared to complex working memory tasks, combining word recall with s...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Service E,Tujulin AM

更新日期：2002-04-01 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：:This study investigates the role of the temporal lobes in levels-of-processing tasks (phonetic and semantic encoding) according to the nature of recall tasks (free and cued recall). These tasks were administered to 48 patients with unilateral temporal epilepsy (right "RTLE"=24; left "LTLE"=24) and a normal group (n=24...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Lespinet-Najib V,N'Kaoua B,Sauzéon H,Bresson C,Rougier A,Claverie B

更新日期：2004-04-01 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：: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

abstract：:We investigated whether left-hemisphere arachnoid cysts lead to reorganization of the language function using PET. A group analysis demonstrated that patients showed no more right-hemisphere activation than a matched control group. Several patients had clear language localizations in the left hemisphere during languag...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Stowe LA,Go KG,Pruim J,den Dunnen W,Meiners LC,Paans AM

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurophysiological and neuroanatomical foundations of developmental language disorder (DLD) are still a matter of dispute. A main argument is that children with DLD show atypical anatomical asymmetries of speech-relevant brain areas, which possibly affect efficient language processing. In contrast to previous anat...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Jäncke L,Siegenthaler T,Preis S,Steinmetz H

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article evaluates two theoretical accounts of how sarcasm is understood; the traditional model, which asserts that listeners derive a counterfactual inference from the sarcastic comment, and relevance theory, which asserts that listeners recognize sarcasm as a scornful echo of a previous assertion. Evidence from ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： McDonald S

更新日期：1999-07-01 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：:In this special issue of Brain and Language, we examine what implications the division between the left and the right brain half has for the recognition of words presented in the center of the visual field. The different articles are a first indication that taking into account the split between the left and the right ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Brysbaert M

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Performance on two measures of lexical retrieval for 19 left and 13 right brain lesioned children was compared to that of control subjects matched by age, sex, race, and social class. On the Word-Finding Test, left lesioned subjects were significantly slower in response time than left controls when given semantic and ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Aram DM,Ekelman BL,Whitaker HA

更新日期：1987-05-01 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：:An analysis of the concurrent incidence of aphasia and spatial disorder in 270 patients with unilateral brain damage suggests that the two functions are statistically independent. These data can also be used to estimate the distribution of left, right, and bilateral representation of linguistic and spatial functions i...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Bryden MP,Hécaen H,DeAgostini M

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Asymmetric degeneration of dopaminergic neurons, are characteristic for Parkinson's disease (PD). Despite the lateralized representation of language, the correlation of asymmetric degeneration of nigrostriatal networks in PD with language performance has scarcely been examined. OBJECTIVE/HYPOTHESIS:The late...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Batens K,De Letter M,Raedt R,Duyck W,Vanhoutte S,Van Roost D,Santens P

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has often been suggested that the role of Broca's region in sentence comprehension can be explained with reference to general cognitive mechanisms (e.g. working memory, cognitive control). However, the (language-related) basis for such proposals is often restricted to findings on English. Here, we argue that an ext...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Bornkessel-Schlesewsky I,Schlesewsky M,von Cramon DY

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes a treatment project, carried out with two anomic subjects, RBO and GMA failed to name pictures correctly as a consequence of damage to phonological lexical forms; their ability to process word meaning was unimpaired. Words that were consistently comprehended correctly, but produced incorrectly by ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Miceli G,Amitrano A,Capasso R,Caramazza A

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis of 166 word blends provides support for the claim that word frequency effects are located at the phonological level of lexical access. The traditional structural approach to blends has been to view them as involving a sequence of two words where word(2) completes an incomplete word(1), as in yes/right-->yi...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Laubstein AS

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00