Spoken-word recognition: the access to embedded words.

abstract：:We presented a new model using the sensory/functional theory of semantic category deficits to explain noun/verb deficits in aphasia. The predictions arising from this model were tested on a small number of patients exhibiting grammatical and/or semantic category specific deficits in picture naming. The results lent su...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Bird H,Howard D,Franklin S

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although a number of studies have examined lexical asymmetries in hemispheric processing, few have systematically investigated differences between nouns and verbs. Lateralization effects of grammatical class were examined by presenting nouns and verbs of both high and low frequency to either the right or left visual f...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Sereno JA

更新日期：1999-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the possibility of enhancing natural language comprehension through the application of anodal tDCS (a-tDCS) over the left inferior frontal gyrus, a key region for verbal short-term memory and language comprehension. We designed a between subjects sham- and task-controlled study. During tDCS stimulation, part...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Giustolisi B,Vergallito A,Cecchetto C,Varoli E,Romero Lauro LJ

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we investigate the production of verb inflection in agrammatic aphasia. In a number of recent studies it has been argued that tense inflection is harder to produce for agrammatic individuals than agreement inflection. However, results are still inconclusive, at least for Dutch and German. Here, we report...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Kok P,van Doorn A,Kolk H

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

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：:Two lexical decision experiments investigated orthographic neighborhood effects in the hemispheres. In the first experiment, lexical decision was affected by orthographic neighborhood size when stimuli were presented to the right hemisphere (RH) but not to the left hemisphere (LH). In a four-field masked-prime lexical...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Lavidor M,Ellis AW

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is twofold. First, to investigate the use of functional categories by two Greek agrammatic aphasics. Second, to discuss the implications of our findings for the characterization of the deficit in agrammatism. The functional categories under investigation were the following: definite and indefinit...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Stavrakaki S,Kouvava S

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sentence comprehension and production were evaluated for 10 chronic aphasic patients who have been shown to demonstrate one of three patterns in the relative case of retrieval of nouns and verbs. Although these patterns of noun/verb production were not entirely predictable from patients' clinical classifications, they...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Berndt RS,Haendiges AN,Mitchum CC,Sandson J

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three simulation experiments were conducted to determine the basis of the high predictive accuracy (98%) of temporal processing variables for the identification of language impairment obtained by Tallal, Stark, and Mellits (1985). In the first two experiments, the stepwise discriminant analysis using a set of 160 arra...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Zhang X,Tomblin JB

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis of 166 word blends provides support for the claim that word frequency effects are located at the phonological level of lexical access. The traditional structural approach to blends has been to view them as involving a sequence of two words where word(2) completes an incomplete word(1), as in yes/right-->yi...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Laubstein AS

更新日期：1999-06-01 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：:A number of recent studies have argued that grammatical illusions can arise in the process of completing linguistic dependencies, such that unlicensed material is temporarily treated as licensed due to the presence of a potential licensor that is semantically appropriate but in a syntactically inappropriate position. ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Xiang M,Dillon B,Phillips C

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent experiments showed that the perception of vowel length by German listeners exhibits the characteristics of categorical perception. The present study sought to find the neural activity reflecting categorical vowel length and the short-long boundary by examining the processing of non-contrastive durations and cat...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Tomaschek F,Truckenbrodt H,Hertrich I

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Chinese character is composed of a finite set of strokes whose order in writing follows consensual principles and is learnt through school education. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), this study investigates the neural activity associated with the perception of writing sequences by asking partici...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Yu H,Gong L,Qiu Y,Zhou X

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copyright ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Snyder PJ

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the linguistic performance of 20 patients with acute conduction aphasia (CA) is described. CA presented as a relatively homogeneous aphasic syndrome characterized by a severe impairment of repetition and fluent expressive language functions with frequent phonemic paraphasias, repetitive self-corrections...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Bartha L,Benke T

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study by Milberg, Blumstein, and Dworetzky (1987), normal control subjects and Wernicke's and Broca's aphasics performed a lexical decision task on the third element of auditorily presented triplets of words with either a word or a nonword as target. In three of the four types of word triplets, the first and the ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Hagoort P

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although very young children seem to process ongoing language quickly and effortlessly, neuroimaging and behavioral studies reveal that children continue to mature in their language skills through adolescence. During this prolonged development, children likely engage the same basic cognitive processes and neural mecha...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Schneider JM,Abel AD,Ogiela DA,McCord C,Maguire MJ

更新日期：2018-11-01 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：:It has been known that lesions in the left inferior frontal gyrus (L. IFG) do not always cause Broca's aphasia, casting doubt upon the specificity of this region. We have previously devised a picture-sentence matching task for a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, and observed that both pars triangular...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Kinno R,Muragaki Y,Hori T,Maruyama T,Kawamura M,Sakai KL

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Wernicke-Lichtheim-Geschwind (WLG) theory of the neurobiological basis of language is of great historical importance, and it continues to exert a substantial influence on most contemporary theories of language in spite of its widely recognized limitations. Here, we suggest that neurobiologically grounded computati...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Weems SA,Reggia JA

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of neuronal oscillations during language comprehension is not yet well understood. In this paper we review and reinterpret the functional roles of beta- and gamma-band oscillatory activity during language comprehension at the sentence and discourse level. We discuss the evidence in favor of a role for beta an...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Lewis AG,Wang L,Bastiaansen M

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five Wernicke's aphasics and five normal control subjects were tested in order to assess several aspects of fundamental frequency (F0) in speech production. The clinical impression of normal prosody in Wernicke's aphasia is correct inasmuch as these patients generally exhibited F0 declination. However, F0 declination ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Danly M,Cooper WE,Shapiro B

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is substantial neural evidence for the role of morphology (word-internal structure) in visual word recognition. We extend this work to auditory word recognition, drawing on recent evidence that phoneme prediction is central to this process. In a magnetoencephalography (MEG) study, we crossed morphological comple...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Ettinger A,Linzen T,Marantz A

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on inflectional morphology in semantic dementia (SD) have focused on the contrast between the regular and the irregular English past-tense. These studies aimed to contrast the claims of single- and dual-mechanism theories. However, both theories can account for impaired production of irregular verbs observed i...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Auclair-Ouellet N,Macoir J,Laforce R Jr,Bier N,Fossard M

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-one adult aphasics of both sexes were studied before and after a 3-month period of language therapy. Although no initial sex difference was found in severity of language disorders, females within the global aphasic group showed significantly greater improvement in three tests of language comprehension. It is su...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Pizzamiglio L,Mammucari A,Razzano C

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This research examines the nature of acoustic-phonetic impairments found in aphasia, and the reliability of patient performance on phoneme discrimination and identification tasks. Aphasic patients were tested on three phoneme discrimination tasks examining their ability to discriminate items on the basis of contrasts ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Gow DW Jr,Caplan D

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The syllable has received considerable empirical support as a unit of processing in speech perception, but its status in speech production remains unclear. Some researchers propose that syllables are individually represented and retrieved during phonological encoding (e.g., Dell, 1986; Ferrand, Segui, & Grainger, 1996...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Wilshire CE,Nespoulous JL

更新日期：2003-03-01 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：: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