The usefulness of the Western Aphasia Battery for differential diagnosis of Alzheimer dementia and focal stroke syndromes: preliminary evidence.

abstract：:This study investigated within-subject test-retest reproducibility (i.e., reliability) of language lateralization obtained with fMRI. Nine healthy subjects performed the same set of three different language tasks during two fMRI sessions on separate days (verb generation, antonym generation, and picture naming). A fou...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Rutten GJ,Ramsey NF,van Rijen PC,van Veelen CW

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) to assess whether reading literal, non-literal (i.e., metaphorical, idiomatic) and fictive motion sentences modulates the activity of the motor system. Sentences were divided into three segments visually presented one at a time: the noun phrase, the verb and the final pa...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Cacciari C,Bolognini N,Senna I,Pellicciari MC,Miniussi C,Papagno C

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experience-dependent enhancement of neural encoding of pitch in the auditory brainstem has been observed for only specific portions of native pitch contours exhibiting high rates of pitch acceleration, irrespective of speech or nonspeech contexts. This experiment allows us to determine whether this language-dependent ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Krishnan A,Gandour JT,Smalt CJ,Bidelman GM

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is controversial as to how age of acquisition (AoA) and proficiency level of the second language influence the similarities and differences between the first (L1) and the second (L2) language brain networks. In this functional MRI study, we used representational similarity analysis to quantify the degree of neural ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Ou J,Li W,Yang Y,Wang N,Xu M

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coney (1998) used a priming procedure to obtain evidence that the left and right hemispheres contributed equally to lexical processing of concrete nouns in a continuous reading task. In that study, however, there was no direct validation of the involvement of the right hemisphere in the task, and the possibility of le...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Coney J

更新日期：2002-02-01 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：:We present a 2-year verbal and nonverbal follow-up of a crossed aphasic patient. The patient had suffered from widespread ischemic damage in the area of right middle cerebral artery, with a parieto-temporal lesion. Three months postonset he showed classical Wernicke's aphasia associated with oral, limb and constructio...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Trojano L,Balbi P,Russo G,Elefante R

更新日期：1994-05-01 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：: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：:The present study examined the contribution of lexically based sources of information to acoustic-phonetic processing in fluent and nonfluent aphasic subjects and age-matched normals. To this end, two phonetic identification experiments were conducted which required subjects to label syllable-initial bilabial stop con...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Boyczuk JP,Baum SR

更新日期：1999-03-01 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：:This study explored asymmetries for movement, expression and perception of visual speech. Sixteen dextral models were videoed as they articulated: 'bat,' 'cat,' 'fat,' and 'sat.' Measurements revealed that the right side of the mouth was opened wider and for a longer period than the left. The asymmetry was accentuated...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Nicholls ME,Searle DA

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For Chinese compounds, neighbors can share either both orthographic forms and meanings, or orthographic forms only. In this study, central presentation and visual half-field (VF) presentation methods were used in conjunction with ERP measures to investigate how readers solve the sublexical semantic ambiguity of the fi...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Huang HW,Lee CY,Tsai JL,Tzeng OJ

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Finnish language is used here to enrich our conception of the dysprosody hypothesis of the output in Broca's agrammatism, i.e., of the claim that agrammatic speech is characterized by aberrant timing and intonation patterns. The native language of the two agrammatic aphasics of the present study places a high func...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Niemi J

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：:Allen [Allen, M. D. (2005). The preservation of verb subcategory knowledge in a spoken language comprehension deficit. Brain and Language, 95, 255-264] presents evidence from a single patient, WBN, to motivate a theory of lexical processing and representation in which syntactic information may be encoded and retrieved...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Allen MD,Owens TE

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A within-subjects study of the affective characteristics of voice was carried out in patients undergoing a Wada Test (WT). All patients became densely aphasic after the left-sided WT and lost the ability to impart affect into speech after the right-sided WT. The affective changes in voice induced by the Wada test were...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Ross ED,Edmondson JA,Seibert GB,Homan RW

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early second language (L2) experience influences the neural organization of L2 in neuro-plastic terms. Previous studies tried to reveal these plastic effects of age of second language acquisition (AoA-L2) and proficiency-level in L2 (PL-L2) on the neural basis of language processing in bilinguals. Although different a...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Liu X,Tu L,Wang J,Jiang B,Gao W,Pan X,Li M,Zhong M,Zhu Z,Niu M,Li Y,Zhao L,Chen X,Liu C,Lu Z,Huang R

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of fronto-striatal regions in processing different language rules such as semantic and (grapho) phonological ones is still under debate. We have recently developed a lexical analog of the Wisconsin card sorting task which measures set-shifting abilities where the visual rules color, number, shape were replace...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Simard F,Monetta L,Nagano-Saito A,Monchi O

更新日期：2013-06-01 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：:Gestural communication is a modality considered in the literature as a candidate for determining the ancestral prerequisites of the emergence of human language. As reported in captive chimpanzees and human children, a study in captive baboons revealed that a communicative gesture elicits stronger degree of right-hand ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Meguerditchian A,Vauclair J

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：: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：: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：:In an implicit phonological priming paradigm, deaf bimodal bilinguals made semantic relatedness decisions for pairs of English words. Half of the semantically unrelated pairs had phonologically related translations in American Sign Language (ASL). As in previous studies with unimodal bilinguals, targets in pairs with ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Meade G,Midgley KJ,Sevcikova Sehyr Z,Holcomb PJ,Emmorey K

更新日期：2017-07-01 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：: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：:Memory for action phrases improves in the listeners when the speaker accompanies them with gestures compared to when the speaker stays still. Since behavioral studies revealed a pivotal role of the listeners' motor system, we aimed to disentangle the role of primary motor and premotor cortices. Participants had to rec...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Ianì F,Burin D,Salatino A,Pia L,Ricci R,Bucciarelli M

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compound nouns have multiple meanings in English. The purpose of this study was to explore when children know that compound nouns refer to two objects, one ideally interacting with the other (e.g., "fish shoes" are shoes with fish on them, not next to them). Thirty-five English-speaking three- and four-year-old childr...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Nicoladis E

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated processing of metaphoric sentences using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Seventeen healthy subjects (6 female, 11 male) read 60 novel short German sentence pairs with either metaphoric or literal meaning and performed two different tasks: judging the metaphoric content and j...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Rapp AM,Leube DT,Erb M,Grodd W,Kircher TT

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00