On-line sensitivity to local and long-distance syntactic dependencies in Broca's aphasia.

abstract：:Fragile X syndrome is a recently discovered relatively common syndrome linked with an anomaly of the X chromosome and causing handicaps of cognitive development especially in males. In the present phonological analysis we will discuss the sound patterns of two Finnish fragile X speakers, a five (borderline intelligenc...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Vilkman E,Niemi J,Ikonen U

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed acoustic analysis was conducted of the speech production of a single patient presenting with the foreign accent syndrome subsequent to a left-hemisphere stroke in the subcortical white matter of the pre-rolandic and post-rolandic gyri at the level of the body of the lateral ventricle. It was the object of t...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Blumstein SE,Alexander MP,Ryalls JH,Katz W,Dworetzky B

更新日期：1987-07-01 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：: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：:We compared right-handed familial dextral (FS-) and familial sinistral (FS+) participants who were aged either 10-13 years (children) or 18-23 years (adults). In word probe and associative probe tasks, FS+ adults responded faster than all other groups and FS+ children responded more slowly than all other groups. In th...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Townsend DJ,Carrithers C,Bever TG

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much remains to be learned about the neural architecture underlying word meaning. Fully distributed models of semantic memory predict that the sound of a barking dog will conjointly engage a network of distributed sensorimotor spokes. An alternative framework holds that modality-specific features additionally converge...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Reilly J,Garcia A,Binney RJ

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigates Broca's aphasics' sensitivity to morphological information in an on-line task. German is used as the test language because it is highly inflected. Results from two word monitoring experiments show first that Broca's patients like normal controls are sensitive to the presence of a context...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Friederici AD,Wessels JM,Emmorey K,Bellugi U

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strongly right-handed Japanese man showed an unusual writing disorder associated with Broca-type aphasia after suffering a right hemispheric infarction. Writing with his right hand produced a fluent output in contrast to his nonfluent speech. The patient's agraphia disproportionately affected the writing of kana (Ja...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Hashimoto R,Tanaka Y,Yoshida M

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Articulatory anticipation of vowel gestures was assessed in an apraxic patient, a dysarthric patient, and three normal speakers. The technique of assessment included perceptual identification of gated speech stimuli. The speech material consisted of /getVte/ utterances with the target vowels /i/, /y/, and /u/. In the ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Ziegler W,von Cramon D

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Does age constrain the outcome of all language acquisition equally regardless of whether the language is a first or second one? To test this hypothesis, the English grammatical abilities of deaf and hearing adults who either did or did not have linguistic experience (spoken or signed) during early childhood were inves...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Mayberry RI,Lock E

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual and auditory rhyme judgment tasks were administered to adolescent dyslexics and normal readers while event-related brain potentials were recorded. Reading disabled subjects were split into two groups based on a median split of scores on a visual non-word decoding test. The better decoders were called Phonetics ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： McPherson WB,Ackerman PT,Holcomb PJ,Dykman RA

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How far can acquired knowledge such as orthographic knowledge affect pre-existing abilities such as speech perception? This controversial issue was addressed by investigating the automaticity of the influence of orthographic knowledge on speech processing. Many studies demonstrated this influence in active, lexico-sem...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Pattamadilok C,Morais J,Colin C,Kolinsky R

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has established that the duration of stressed word stem vowels is shorter in polysyllabic words than in monosyllabic words for normal speakers and for speakers with aphasia and apraxia of speech (AOS). However, the results are inconsistent across studies with regard to the magnitude and pattern of th...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Haley KL,Overton HB

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conversation is multi-modal, involving both talk and gesture. Does understanding depictive gestures engage processes similar to those recruited in the comprehension of drawings or photographs? Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded from neurotypical adults as they viewed spontaneously produced depictive g...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Wu YC,Coulson S

更新日期：2011-12-01 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 paper presents a model describing the temporal and neurotopological structure of syntactic processes during comprehension. It postulates three distinct phases of language comprehension, two of which are primarily syntactic in nature. During the first phase the parser assigns the initial syntactic structure on the...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Friederici AD

更新日期：1995-09-01 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：:Two experiments assessed masked priming for words presented to the left and right visual fields in a lexical decision task. In both Experiments, the same magnitude and pattern of priming was obtained for visually similar (kiss-KISS) and dissimilar (read-READ) prime-target pairs. These findings provide no support for t...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Bowers JS,Turner EL

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to identify the nature of the deficit for a conduction aphasic patient in order to evaluate two different theories of conduction aphasia. First, a conduction aphasic patient FS was tested on auditory word-pair discrimination, word-repetition, and picture-naming. The results of these tasks...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Saito A,Yoshimura T,Itakura T,Lambon Ralph MA

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the human brain, areas 44 and 45 constitute Broca's region, the ventrolateral frontal region critical for language production. The homologues of these areas in the macaque monkey brain have been established by direct cytoarchitectonic comparison with the human brain. The cortical areas that project monosynaptically...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Frey S,Mackey S,Petrides M

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present experiment employed a grammatical priming task to explore the possible contributions of the left and right cerebral hemispheres to the processing of grammatical agreement. Stimuli were three-word noun phrases, with the prime centered above the fixation point and the target presented laterally to one visual...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Liu SR,Chiarello C,Quan N

更新日期：1999-12-01 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：:Since Aristotle, people have believed that metaphors and similes express the same type of figurative meaning, despite the fact that they are expressed with different sentence patterns. In contrast, recent psycholinguistic models have suggested that metaphors and similes may promote different comprehension processes. I...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Shibata M,Toyomura A,Motoyama H,Itoh H,Kawabata Y,Abe J

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we investigated whether the left and right hemispheres are differentially involved in causal inference generation. Participants read short inference-promoting texts that described either familiar or less-familiar scenarios. After each text, they performed a lexical decision on a letter string (which som...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Sundermeier BA,Virtue SM,Marsolek CJ,van den Broek P

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The left angular gyrus has long been implicated in semantic processing. Here we tested whether or not transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the left angular gyrus modulated reading performance. Adult readers (N = 77) (1) read aloud words that varied in degree of imageability, a semantic word property kno...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Cummine J,Boliek CA,McKibben T,Jaswal A,Joanisse MF

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In three experiments, cost-benefit analysis was used to determine the role of attention in the processing of auditory information. In two experiments consonant-vowel syllables were presented monaurally, while in the third the mode of presentation was dichotic. For all three experiments the ability to detect a target s...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Murray J,Allard F,Bryden MP

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports on functional morpheme (I, D, and C) production in the spontaneous speech of five pairs of children who have undergone hemispherectomy, matching each pair for etiology and age at symptom onset, surgery, and testing. Our results show that following left hemispherectomy (LH), children evidence a great...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Curtiss S,Schaeffer J

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite considerable interest in the linguistic dimensions of right-hemisphere (RH) pragmatic language disorders, the cognitive bases for these are rarely examined. This study investigated two alternative explanations. First, RH pragmatic language disorders may reflect failure of the RH to synthesise incoming and pree...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： McDonald S

更新日期：2000-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This brief note has two parts. First, it presents an analysis of the ability of English agrammatic patients to assign the thematic roles of agent, instrument, theme, and locative to noun phrases in active and passive sentences and prepositional phrases. Data regarding this ability have been presented by Schwartz, Saff...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Caplan D

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prominence is the hierarchical relation among arguments that allows us to understand 'Who did what to whom' in a sentence. The present study aimed to provide evidence about the role of prominence information for the incremental interpretation of arguments in Spanish. We investigated the time course of neural correlate...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Gattei CA,Tabullo Á,París L,Wainselboim AJ

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00