Neuropragmatics: Extralinguistic pragmatic ability is better preserved in left-hemisphere-damaged patients than in right-hemisphere-damaged patients.

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：:Two experiments are reported in which the determinants of spelling errors on homophonous verb forms in Dutch were studied. Both experiments indicated that errors were determined by the frequency relationship between the two homophonous forms and the distance between the verb and the word determining its spelling. We p...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Sandra D,Frisson S,Daems F

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An event-related potential (ERP) probe was used to examine various models of ambiguous sentence processing. ERPs to light flashes were recorded during and immediately after auditorily presented ambiguous and unambiguous target sentences. Each target sentence was preceded by either a relevant or a neutral context sente...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Erwin RJ

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid, alternating stimulus (RAS) naming measure was designed to study the developing ability in dyslexic readers to direct attention to contextual patterns while performing a rapid serial naming task. The results from a 3-year longitudinal investigation of 98 children indicate three trends. RAS performances differe...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Wolf M

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenomenon of ear dominance for pitch described by Efron and Yund has been attributed by them to an asymmetry of sensory origin in the binaural integration of dichotic tone pairs. An explanation of this phenomenon in terms of an attentional bias is rejected on the basis of two experiments where the possibility of ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Gregory AH,Efron R,Divenyi PL,Yund EW

更新日期：1983-07-01 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：: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：: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：:Event-related potentials (ERPs) elicited by task-irrelevant visual stimuli were recorded from 34 control and 32 dyslexic 10- to 12-year-old boys while they performed silent and oral reading at two levels of difficulty. All subjects were extensively screened for neurological problems, IQ, and sensory acuity. Specific f...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Johnstone J,Galin D,Fein G,Yingling C,Herron J,Marcus M

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mirror neurons, first described in the rostral part of monkey ventral premotor cortex (area F5), discharge both when the animal performs a goal-directed hand action and when it observes another individual performing the same or a similar action. More recently, in the same area mirror neurons responding to the observat...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Buccino G,Binkofski F,Riggio L

更新日期：2004-05-01 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：:We studied the relationship between naming and the integrity of physical and associative knowledge in a group of patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) and matched normal controls. All subjects named 48 line drawings and later generated verbal definitions in response to the names of a subset of the 48 item...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Hodges JR,Patterson K,Graham N,Dawson K

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the ability of right brain-damaged individuals (RBD) to use contextual information to resolve ambiguous pronouns. Subjects were presented with sentence pairs and required to resolve the ambiguous pronoun in the second sentence. Contrary to the prevailing view that RBD patients have difficulty u...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Leonard CL,Waters GS,Caplan D

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How polysyllabic English words are analyzed in silent reading was examined in three experiments by comparing lexical decision responses to words physically split on the screen. The gap was compatible either with the Maximal Onset Principle or the Maximal Coda Principle. The former corresponds to the spoken syllable (e...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Taft M

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When naming pictures, categorically-related compared to unrelated contexts typically slow production. We investigated proposed roles for the left inferior frontal gyrus (LIFG) and posterior middle and superior temporal gyri (pMTG/STG) in mediating this semantic interference effect. In a three-way, cross-over, sham-con...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Meinzer M,Yetim Ö,McMahon K,de Zubicaray G

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

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 encoding of letter position is a key aspect in all recently proposed models of visual-word recognition. We analyzed the impact of lexical frequency on letter position assignment by examining the temporal dynamics of lexical activation induced by pseudowords extracted from words of different frequencies. For each w...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Vergara-Martínez M,Perea M,Gómez P,Swaab TY

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to the semantic hub hypothesis, a supramodal semantic hub is equally needed to deal with verbal and extraverbal "surface" representations. Damage to the supramodal hub is thought to underlie the crossmodal impairment observed in selective semantic deficits. In the present paper, we provide evidence supportin...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Zannino GD,Perri R,Monaco M,Caltagirone C,Luzzi S,Carlesimo GA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid, automatic access to lexical/semantic knowledge is critical in supporting the tight temporal constraints of on-line sentence comprehension. Based on findings of "abnormal" lexical priming in nonfluent aphasics, the question of disrupted automatic lexical activation has been the focus of many recent efforts to un...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Prather PA,Zurif E,Love T,Brownell H

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated whether the neural correlates for auditory feedback control of vocal pitch can be shaped by tone language experience. Event-related potentials (P2/N1) were recorded from adult native speakers of Mandarin and Cantonese who heard their voice auditory feedback shifted in pitch by -50, -100,...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Chen Z,Liu P,Wang EQ,Larson CR,Huang D,Liu H

更新日期：2012-04-01 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 a previous behavioral study, we showed that parents of children with SLI had a subclinical deficit in phonological short-term memory. Here, we tested the hypothesis that they also have a deficit in nonverbal auditory sensory memory. We measured auditory sensory memory using a paradigm involving an electrophysiologi...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Barry JG,Hardiman MJ,Line E,White KB,Yasin I,Bishop DV

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:A case of a Spanish-speaking aphasic patient who produced a great number of semantic paralexias in reading aloud and who showed other symptoms consistent with the diagnosis of deep dyslexia is presented. In this study, (a) the production of semantic paralexias and the features of the deep dyslexia syndrome which have ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Ferreres AR,Miravalles G

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to assess neural activation as participants learned to segment continuous streams of speech containing syllable sequences varying in their transitional probabilities. Speech streams were presented in four runs, each followed by a behavioral test to measure the exte...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Karuza EA,Newport EL,Aslin RN,Starling SJ,Tivarus ME,Bavelier D

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Auditory-evoked responses (AERs) were recorded from scalp electrodes placed over the left and right temporal hemisphere regions of 12 preschool children while they listened to a series of velar stop consonants which varied in voice onset time (VOT) and to two-formant tone stimuli with temporal lags comparable to the s...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Molfese DL,Molfese VJ

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phonation is a fundamental feature of human communication. Control of phonation in the context of speech-language disturbances has traditionally been considered a characteristic of lesions to subcortical structures and pathways. Evidence suggests however, that cortical lesions may also implicate phonation. We carried ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Vuković M,Sujić R,Petrović-Lazić M,Miller N,Milutinović D,Babac S,Vuković I

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copyright ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Snyder PJ

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relatively few studies have analyzed the mechanisms underlying the cognitive changes that affect language in the elderly, and fewer have done so for narrative discourse. The goal of this study was to explore the neurofunctional changes associated with aging for different components of narrative discourse. Functional n...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Scherer LC,Fonseca RP,Giroux F,Senhadji N,Marcotte K,Tomitch LM,Benali H,Lesage F,Ska B,Joanette Y

更新日期：2012-05-01 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