Functional categories and syntactic operations in (Ab)normal language acquisition.

abstract：:According to our clinical observations from various aspects of stroke patients, such as the total incidence of aphasia, the incidence of aphasia after left brain damage of the dextrals, the aphasia that occurs in patients without hemiplegia, and the types of aphasia, a much higher incidence of crossed aphasia is seen ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Hu YH,Qiou YG,Zhong GQ

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study is to compare the pragmatic ability of right- and left-hemisphere-damaged patients excluding the possible interference of linguistic deficits. To this aim, we study extralinguistic communication, that is communication performed only through gestures. The Cognitive Pragmatics Theory provide...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Cutica I,Bucciarelli M,Bara BG

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An acoustical and perceptual study of lexical tone was conducted to evaluate the extent and nature of tonal disruption in aphasia. The language under investigation was Thai, a tone language which has five lexical tones--mid, low, falling, high, and rising. Subjects included six left brain-damaged aphasics (two Broca's...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Gandour J,Petty SH,Dardarananda R

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All current models of spoken word recognition propose that sound-based representations of spoken words compete with, or inhibit, one another during recognition. In addition, certain models propose that higher probability sublexical units facilitate recognition under certain circumstances. Two experiments were conducte...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Hunter CR

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amplitude changes in the auditory event related response reflect differences in linguistic content and the level of processing of spoken sentences. Thus, the neurophysiology of the cognitive processes underlying speech perception can be evaluated by noninvasive techniques. Semantically correct, semantically incorrect,...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Herning RI,Jones RT,Hunt JS

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report presents findings for a set of dizygotic twins at age 4 years 9 months. The male was diagnosed as specifically language impaired. For both children, the left-right perisylvian configuration was atypical. Only the male's configuration was symmetrical, a finding in line with autopsy data reported for subject...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Plante E,Swisher L,Vance R

更新日期：1989-11-01 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：: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

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：:Previous studies have identified several brain regions that appear to be involved in the acquisition of novel word forms. Standard word-by-word presentation is often used although exposure to a new language normally occurs in a natural, real world situation. In the current experiment we investigated naturalistic langu...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Veroude K,Norris DG,Shumskaya E,Gullberg M,Indefrey P

更新日期：2010-04-01 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：:Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we neuroimaged deaf adults as they performed two linguistic tasks with sentences in American Sign Language, grammatical judgment and phonemic-hand judgment. Participants' age-onset of sign language acquisition ranged from birth to 14 years; length of sign language ex...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Mayberry RI,Chen JK,Witcher P,Klein D

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Semantic knowledge has thematic relations of contiguity based on association and taxonomic relations of similarity based on shared features to form categories. It is unknown if there are distinct brain networks between thematic and taxonomic organizations in children and if this distinction is related to changes in sp...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Chou TL,Wong CH,Chen SY,Fan LY,Booth JR

更新日期：2019-02-01 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：: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：:The bulk of the research on the neural organization of metaphor comprehension has focused on nominal metaphors and the metaphoric relationships between word pairs. By contrast, little work has been conducted on predicate metaphors using verbs of motion such as "The man fell under her spell." We examined predicate meta...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Chen E,Widick P,Chatterjee A

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Verbal humor deficits were investigated in right-hemisphere-damaged patients. It was hypothesized that the appreciation of jokes presupposes two elements: sensitivity to the surprise element entailed in the punch line of a joke and apprehension of the coherence which results when the punch line has been integrated wit...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Brownell HH,Michel D,Powelson J,Gardner H

更新日期：1983-01-01 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：: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：:Lexical access during speech comprehension comprises numerous computations, including activation, competition, and selection. The spatio-temporal profile of these processes involves neural activity in peri-auditory cortices at least as early as 200 ms after stimulation. Their oscillatory dynamics are less well underst...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Brennan J,Lignos C,Embick D,Roberts TP

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During speech comprehension, multiple cues need to be integrated at a millisecond speed, including semantic information, as well as voice identity and affect cues. A processing advantage has been demonstrated for self-related stimuli when compared with non-self stimuli, and for emotional relative to neutral stimuli. H...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Pinheiro AP,Rezaii N,Nestor PG,Rauber A,Spencer KM,Niznikiewicz M

更新日期：2016-02-01 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：: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：:In this paper we examine the tendency for agrammatic aphasics to make thematic reversal errors in comprehension, e.g., a tendency for English-speaking agrammatics to assign a preposed object the subject role. Although this tendency has been argued to follow from either a linear (Grodzinsky, 1995) or a directionality (...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Friederici AD,Gorrell P

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four reading-related, information-processing tasks were administered to right-handed blind readers of braille who differed in level of reading skill and in preference for using the right hand or the left hand when required to read text with just one hand. The tasks were letter identification, same-different matching o...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Wilkinson JM,Carr TH

更新日期：1987-09-01 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：:Voicing is an important phonetic dimension that distinguishes voiced (i.e., /b/) from voiceless-aspirated stop consonants (i.e.,/ph/) in English. Perception of discrete voicing categories is affected by a number of acoustic cues. The present paper reviews evidence from brain-damaged populations indicating that the per...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Simos PG,Molfese DL,Brenden RA

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The question of whether lexical access for proper names is more impaired by ageing than lexical acess for other words is controversial. The aim of the present investigation was to evaluate the effect of age on proper and common name retrieval in long-term memory. The word retrieval paradigm used to achieve this goal c...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Evrard M

更新日期：2002-04-01 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 nature of cerebral involvement in the acquisition of language was addressed in this longitudinal study of children with an early diagnosis of epilepsy with simple-partial seizures (SPE) and with epileptogenic foci localized in the left frontal (LF) lobe. Yearly evaluations of six SPE-LF children on tests of lingui...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Cohen H,Le Normand MT

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00