The role of experience for abstract concepts: Expertise modulates the electrophysiological correlates of mathematical word processing.

abstract：:Closed head injury (CHI) is associated with communication difficulties in everyday social interactions. Previous work has reported impaired comprehension of sarcasm, using sarcastic remarks where the intended meaning is the opposite of the sincere or literal meaning. Participants with CHI in the present study were ass...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Channon S,Pellijeff A,Rule A

更新日期：2005-05-01 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：:Ten subjects viewed a stream of meaningless background images in which English words occasionally appeared. A subject indicated detection of a word by lifting the index finger of the preferred hand. He received payment based on his performance. A computer program degraded half of the word images, removing a fraction o...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Rudell AP,Hua J

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subjects were asked to indicate which item of a word/nonword pair was a word. On critical trials the nonword was a pseudohomophone of the word. RTs of dyslexics were shorter in blocks of trials in which a congruent auditory prime was simultaneously presented with the visual stimuli. RTs of normal readers were longer f...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Whatmough C,Arguin M,Bub D

更新日期：1999-02-01 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：:A development of existing theories of deep dyslexia is outlined. It proposes that the effects of imageability upon the ease of reading of words by deep dyslexics occur as a result of variation in the ease with which individual words summon semantic predicates, on the basis of which reading responses can be made. Ease-...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Jones GV

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases, one with probable Pick's disease and one with herpes simplex encephalitis, are presented, focusing on Gogi (word-meaning) aphasia-like syndrome as their salient clinical feature. Their aphasic symptoms were characterized by impaired kanji processing and preserved kana processing in writing and oral reading ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Jibiki I,Yamaguchi N

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compared the post-CVA speech of a patient presenting with the foreign accent syndrome (FAS) to both a premorbid baseline for that patient and to similarly analyzed data from an earlier reported case of FAS. The object of this research was to provide quantitative acoustic data to determine whether: (1) the c...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Kurowski KM,Blumstein SE,Alexander M

更新日期：1996-07-01 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：:Few studies have examined the time course of second language (L2) induced neuroplasticity or how individual differences may be associated with brain changes. The current longitudinal structural magnetic resonance imaging study examined changes in cortical thickness (CT) and gray matter volume (GMV) across two semester...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Legault J,Grant A,Fang SY,Li P

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental changes in children's verbal fluency were explored in this study. One hundred and forty children aged from 7 to 16 completed four verbal fluency tasks, each with a different the production criterion (letter, sound, semantic, and free). The age differences were analyzed both in terms of number of words pr...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Sauzéon H,Lestage P,Raboutet C,N'Kaoua B,Claverie B

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual emotionally charged stimuli have been shown to elicit early electrophysiological responses (e.g., Ihssen, Heim, & Keil, 2007; Schupp, Junghöfer, Weike, & Hamm, 2003; Stolarova, Keil, & Moratti, 2006). We presented isolated words to listeners, and observed, using generalized additive modeling, oscillations in th...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Kryuchkova T,Tucker BV,Wurm LH,Baayen RH

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：: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：:We report results of an experimental study with Dutch agrammatic aphasics that investigated their ability to interpret pronominal elements in transitive clauses and Exceptional Case Marking constructions (ECM). Using the obtained experimental results as a tool, we distinguish between three competing linguistic theorie...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Ruigendijk E,Vasić N,Avrutin S

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a simple prime-target visual rhyming paradigm, pairs of words, nonwords, and single letters elicited similar event-related potential (ERP) rhyming effects in young adults. Within each condition, primes elicited contingent negative variation (CNV) while nonrhyming targets elicited more negative waveforms than rhymin...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Coch D,Hart T,Mitra P

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This case report documents the partial recovery, over a 12-month period, of pure alexia in an adult female following a left occipital infarction. Measures of speed and accuracy were obtained on an oral reading and a lexical decision task immediately postonset and then on 10 subsequent occasions. Explicit letter-by-let...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Behrmann M,Black SE,Bub D

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used fMRI to examine patterns of brain activity associated with component processes of visual word recognition and their relationships to individual differences in reading skill. We manipulated both the judgments adults made on written stimuli and the characteristics of the stimuli. Phonological processing led to a...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Welcome SE,Joanisse MF

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Semantic category effects, such as difficulties in naming animate things relative to inanimate objects, have been explained in terms of the relative weightings of perceptual and functional features within the semantic representations of these concepts. We argue that grammatical category deficits, such as difficulties ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Bird H,Howard D,Franklin S

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to assess the ability of four patients with word deafness or auditory agnosia to discriminate speech by reading lips. The patients were studied using nonsense monosyllables to test for speech discrimination, a lip reading test, the Token Test for auditory comprehension, and the Aphasia te...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Shindo M,Kaga K,Tanaka Y

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A well-known feature of Broca's aphasia is the problem of handling "small words." It has been claimed that patients show these problems in both language production and language perception. The traditional dichotomy of "function" words and "content" words is probably not a good description of the classes of words that ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Eling P

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group with right hemisphere dysfunction was compared to neurologically intact controls regarding the referential cohesion and logical coherence of narrative production. A somewhat varied sample of six stories was obtained with tasks of cartoon-elicited story-telling and auditory-oral retelling. We found deficits in ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Davis GA,O'Neil-Pirozzi TM,Coon M

更新日期：1997-02-01 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 development of narrative content was studied in 100 children aged 6-15 years (49 with early-onset hydrocephalus and 51 age-matched controls) by analyzing transcripts of oral texts produced from their narrations of two fairy tales. In relation to those of their age-matched peers, the narratives of the children with...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Dennis M,Jacennik B,Barnes MA

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：: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：:The current study addresses the debate between so-called 'structural' and 'processing limitation' accounts of aphasia, i.e., whether language impairments reflect the 'loss' of linguistic knowledge or its representations, or instead reflect a limitation in processing resources. Confrontation-naming task and category-ju...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Lee CL,Hung DL,Tse JK,Lee CY,Tsai JL,Tzeng OJ

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that the lemma and lexeme levels of lexical access are in a feed-forward serial relation is supported. Subjects judge the degree of semantic relatedness of pairs of words. Stimuli are all functionally synonymous; they are pairs of words implicated in natural word blends. Half the stimuli are phonologica...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Laubstein AS

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence from electrophysiological measures such as ERPs (event-related potentials) and MEG (magnetoencephalography) suggest that the first evoked brain response component sensitive to stimulus properties affecting reaction times in word recognition tasks occurs at 300-400 ms. The present study used the stimulus manip...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Pylkkänen L,Stringfellow A,Marantz A

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patterns of perseveration and frequency of carrier phrases were studied in the verbal descriptive discourse of dementia patients controlled for etiology and severity. Dementia patients were found to perseverate significantly more frequently than normals and severity of dementia was more strongly associated than etiolo...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Bayles KA,Tomoeda CK,Kaszniak AW,Stern LZ,Eagans KK

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00