abstract：:Fourteen native speakers of German heard normal sentences, sentences which were either lacking dynamic pitch variation (flattened speech), or comprised of intonation contour exclusively (degraded speech). Participants were to listen carefully to the sentences and to perform a rehearsal task. Passive listening to flatt...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Meyer M,Steinhauer K,Alter K,Friederici AD,von Cramon DY

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental changes in children's verbal fluency were explored in this study. One hundred and forty children aged from 7 to 16 completed four verbal fluency tasks, each with a different the production criterion (letter, sound, semantic, and free). The age differences were analyzed both in terms of number of words pr...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Sauzéon H,Lestage P,Raboutet C,N'Kaoua B,Claverie B

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates the role of the temporal lobes in levels-of-processing tasks (phonetic and semantic encoding) according to the nature of recall tasks (free and cued recall). These tasks were administered to 48 patients with unilateral temporal epilepsy (right "RTLE"=24; left "LTLE"=24) and a normal group (n=24...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Lespinet-Najib V,N'Kaoua B,Sauzéon H,Bresson C,Rougier A,Claverie B

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this special issue of Brain and Language, we examine what implications the division between the left and the right brain half has for the recognition of words presented in the center of the visual field. The different articles are a first indication that taking into account the split between the left and the right ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Brysbaert M

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Profiles of verbal learning and memory performance were compared for typically developing children and for four developmental disorders characterized by different patterns of language functioning: specific language impairment, early focal brain damage, Williams Syndrome, and Down Syndrome. A list-learning task was use...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Nichols S,Jones W,Roman MJ,Wulfeck B,Delis DC,Reilly J,Bellugi U

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repetition blindness (RB) refers to the failure to detect the second occurrence of a repeated item in rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP). In two experiments using RSVP, the ability to report two critical characters was found to be impaired when these two characters were identical (Experiment 1) or similar by shar...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Yeh SL,Li JL

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:This research addresses the issues of frequency and regularity in verb reading and their importance for the organization of the mental lexicon in DLI francophones. A reading task probes response latencies and response accuracy for DLI and control participants on frequent and infrequent inflected forms of verbs. DLI pa...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Royle P,Jarema G,Kehayia E

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the behavioral level one of the primary disturbances involved in congenital dyslexia concerns phonological processing. At the neuroarchitectural level autopsies have revealed ectopies, e.g., a reduced number of neurons in the upper layers of the cortex and an increased number in the lower ones. In dynamic models of...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Been PH,Zwarts F

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was conducted to investigate relationships between semantic and perceptual levels of representation. A picture-word repetition paradigm was used in which we manipulated the semantic relationship between pictures and words. Experiment 1 involved two types of trials, one with words that had the same me...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： van Schie HT,Wijers AA,Kellenbach ML,Stowe LA

更新日期：2003-08-01 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：:Using a cross-modal semantic priming paradigm, the present study investigated the ability of left-hemisphere-damaged (LHD) nonfluent aphasic, right-hemisphere-damaged (RHD) and non-brain-damaged (NBD) control subjects to use local sentence context information to resolve lexically ambiguous words. Critical sentences we...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Grindrod CM,Baum SR

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1877 Thomas Barlow, a London physician, published a remarkable case of functional recovery of speech following brain damage. It involved a 10-year-old boy who had lost his speech, regained it, and lost it again before he died from a disorder that affected his heart and produced embolisms that subsequently affected ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Finger S,Buckner RL,Buckingham H

更新日期：2003-06-01 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 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：: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：:This study investigated the hypothesis that the syntactic trees formed by individuals with agrammatic aphasia cannot be constructed any higher than an impaired node as suggested by the tree-pruning hypothesis (Friedman, 1994; Friedmann & Grodzinsky, 1997) and hypothesis. It also examined their following implication th...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Lee M

更新日期：2003-02-01 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：:Formal lexical errors are relatively rare in the production of aphasic patients. In this study, we report the case of DW, who makes a high proportion of these errors. A few other cases have previously been reported, but DW shows a number of distinguishing characteristics. First, formal lexical errors are made in spell...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Romani C,Olson A,Ward J,Ercolani MG

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies have been conducted to measure monaural azimuthal sound localization performance with different sounds varying in frequency and complexity, but few have used linguistic stimuli. The present experimental design used subjects' first names in a monaural azimuthal localization task. Analysis of response accur...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Muller BS,Bovet P

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence from electrophysiological measures such as ERPs (event-related potentials) and MEG (magnetoencephalography) suggest that the first evoked brain response component sensitive to stimulus properties affecting reaction times in word recognition tasks occurs at 300-400 ms. The present study used the stimulus manip...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Pylkkänen L,Stringfellow A,Marantz A

更新日期：2002-04-01 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：:The hypothesis that the lemma and lexeme levels of lexical access are in a feed-forward serial relation is supported. Subjects judge the degree of semantic relatedness of pairs of words. Stimuli are all functionally synonymous; they are pairs of words implicated in natural word blends. Half the stimuli are phonologica...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Laubstein AS

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Say and Clahsen (S and C) report an experiment involving assignment of past participle suffixes to nonce words in Italian. Their evidence suggests a dual-route model that assigns the theme vowel of the 1st conjugation, while storing it lexically in other conjugations. However, these nonce words were assigned suffixes ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Eddington D

更新日期：2002-04-01 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：: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：:Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) have sentence comprehension difficulty, but it is unclear whether this is due to a deficit in grammatical processing or to an executive resource limitation. To assess grammatical processing in PD while minimizing task-related demands, PD patients and healthy control subjects perf...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Grossman M,Lee C,Morris J,Stern MB,Hurtig HI

更新日期：2002-03-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Visual word recognition of a profoundly deaf girl (AH) with developmental reading disorders was explored using an experimental technique that measures performance as a function of eye fixation within a word. AH's fixation-dependent word recognition profile revealed that she was inferring the identity of words using a ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Aghababian V,Nazir TA,Lançon C,Tardy M

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents the results of an analysis of pragmatic aspects of language samples obtained from five agrammatic aphasic individuals prior to and following Linguistic Specific Treatment (LST). Clinically and statistically significant positive changes in informativeness and efficiency were documented in posttreatm...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Jacobs BJ

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article argues in favor of the hypothesis that computational complexity determines order of acquisition of functional categories by normal children and patterns of impairment vs. relative preservation of these categories in children with Specific Language Impairment. Complexity is defined in terms of the properti...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Jakubowicz C,Nash L

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lexical processing has long been associated with left-hemisphere function, especially for infrequently occurring words. Recently, however, persons with severe aphasia, including word-recognition deficits, were observed to recognize familiar proper nouns. Further, some patients suffering right-hemisphere damage were po...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Ohnesorge C,Van Lancker D

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

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：:We investigated whether left-hemisphere arachnoid cysts lead to reorganization of the language function using PET. A group analysis demonstrated that patients showed no more right-hemisphere activation than a matched control group. Several patients had clear language localizations in the left hemisphere during languag...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Stowe LA,Go KG,Pruim J,den Dunnen W,Meiners LC,Paans AM

更新日期：2000-12-01 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：:The functional specificity of different brain areas recruited in auditory language processing was investigated by means of event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while subjects listened to speech input varying in the presence or absence of semantic and syntactic information. There were two sentence...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Friederici AD,Meyer M,von Cramon DY

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00