abstract：:FM is a progressive aphasic patient whose language comprehension we studied over a 4-year period. We developed a variety of implicit and explicit tasks to chart progressive changes in the representation of linguistic knowledge (in particular, syntax and semantics) and the automatic and controlled processes which opera...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Tyler LK,Moss HE,Patterson K,Hodges J

更新日期：1997-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A group with right hemisphere dysfunction was compared to neurologically intact controls regarding the referential cohesion and logical coherence of narrative production. A somewhat varied sample of six stories was obtained with tasks of cartoon-elicited story-telling and auditory-oral retelling. We found deficits in ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Davis GA,O'Neil-Pirozzi TM,Coon M

更新日期：1997-02-01 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：: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 compared the post-CVA speech of a patient presenting with the foreign accent syndrome (FAS) to both a premorbid baseline for that patient and to similarly analyzed data from an earlier reported case of FAS. The object of this research was to provide quantitative acoustic data to determine whether: (1) the c...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Kurowski KM,Blumstein SE,Alexander M

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In models of word retrieval, it is common to differentiate lexical-semantic (word meaning) and lexical-phonological (word form) levels. There has been considerable interest in the relationship between these two levels. The so-called discrete two-stage model claims that phonological activation follows selection at the ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Laine M,Martin N

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Script knowledge was examined in discourse produced by 15 mildly moderately impaired aphasics, 15 right-hemisphere-damaged (RHD) subjects. 15 neurological patients without central nervous system damage, and 30 normal controls. Experimental task were designed to elicit knowledge of particular scripts, various scripts f...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Lojek-Osiejuk E

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positron Emission Tomography (PET) was used to determine regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) when eight normal right-handed males read and made acceptability judgments about sentences. rCBF was greater in Broca's area (particularly in the pars opercularis) when subjects judged the semantic plausibility of syntacticall...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Stromswold K,Caplan D,Alpert N,Rauch S

更新日期：1996-03-01 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：:This study describes a treatment project, carried out with two anomic subjects, RBO and GMA failed to name pictures correctly as a consequence of damage to phonological lexical forms; their ability to process word meaning was unimpaired. Words that were consistently comprehended correctly, but produced incorrectly by ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Miceli G,Amitrano A,Capasso R,Caramazza A

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：: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：:A variety of experimental paradigms has yielded surprisingly fine-grained evidence about the kinds of syntactic information to which agrammatic aphasics are sensitive. This paper contrasts three accounts of agrammatism which draw quite different conclusions about the implications of this disorder for normal function: ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Linebarger MC

更新日期：1995-07-01 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：:Behavioral studies in animals support the view that categorical, phonetic phenomena are based upon specific response properties of the auditory system. This study investigated physiologic responses reflecting the phonetic parameter of voice onset time (VOT). We examined multiunit activity (MUA) in the primary auditory...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Steinschneider M,Schroeder CE,Arezzo JC,Vaughan HG Jr

更新日期：1995-03-01 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：:Event-related potentials, as well as reaction times and performance accuracies, were recorded from normal young adults during the performance of a memory-scanning task, in response to the first and second items of the memorized set and to the probe. Stimuli included computer-generated digits, presented by earphones as...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Pratt H,Erez A,Geva AB

更新日期：1994-04-01 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：:Kussmaul's model of language functions is presented, together with antecedent models that have influenced his conception of linguistic processes. The particular interest in this model lies in the fact that it anticipates the modern approach to diagram-making. In contrast to most of his contemporaries, Kussmaul underst...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Jarema G

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine aphasic and 18 normal adults participated in a dual task with components of phoneme monitoring and semantic judgment. Subjects listened to lists of recorded spoken words and were required to detect semantic and phonetic targets. Two within-subject variables were manipulated: the probability of target occurrence f...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Tseng CH,McNeil MR,Milenkovic P

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases, one with probable Pick's disease and one with herpes simplex encephalitis, are presented, focusing on Gogi (word-meaning) aphasia-like syndrome as their salient clinical feature. Their aphasic symptoms were characterized by impaired kanji processing and preserved kana processing in writing and oral reading ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Jibiki I,Yamaguchi N

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present paper addresses the question of the functional lateralization of the ability to perceive the tonal distinctions in tone languages. Dichotic listening experiments and investigations of the brain-damaged population have indicated that the left hemisphere is more active than the right in the perception of ton...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Moen I

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty right-handed left hemisphere-damaged patients were taken and divided into five groups (transcortical motor, Broca, conduction, Wernicke, and anomic aphasia). Language deviations were scored and analyzed for the Picture Description (Plate No. 1, The Cookie Theft), Repetition (Words, High and Low Probability Sent...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Ardila A,Rosselli M

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigates Broca's aphasics' sensitivity to morphological information in an on-line task. German is used as the test language because it is highly inflected. Results from two word monitoring experiments show first that Broca's patients like normal controls are sensitive to the presence of a context...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Friederici AD,Wessels JM,Emmorey K,Bellugi U

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study is based on an on-line investigation of spoken language comprehension processes in 25 French-speaking aphasics using a syllable-monitoring task. Nonsense syllables were presented in three different conditions: context-free (embedded in strings of nonsense syllables), lexical context (where the target nonsens...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Metz-Lutz MN,Wioland F,Brock G

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of spelling-to-sound correspondence rules in oral word reading was investigated by asking patients with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and normal controls to read aloud pronounceable letter strings that do not happen to be real words. These pseudowords were of two types: those that have orthographically similar "ne...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Friedman RB,Ferguson S,Robinson S,Sunderland T

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method of error analysis, designed to examine phonological and nonphonological reading and spelling processes, was developed from preliminary studies and theoretical background, including a linguistic model and the relationships between articulatory features of phonemes. The usefulness of this method as an assessmen...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Roeltgen DP

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Published 100 years ago, Freud's monograph on aphasia, Zur Auffassung der Aphasien, is an incisive analysis of the so-called diagram-makers, those aphasiologists who would reduce brain and language to simple schemes of circumscribed cortical centers linked by unidirectional subcortical pathways. Chief architects of th...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Henderson VW

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The understanding of stories requires sensitivity to structural aspects of narrative, the emotional content conveyed by the narrative, and the interaction between structural and emotional facets of the story. Right-hemisphere-damaged (RHD) and normal control subjects performed a number of different analytic tasks whic...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Rehak A,Kaplan JA,Weylman ST,Kelly B,Brownell HH,Gardner H

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the usefulness of the Western Aphasia Battery for distinguishing the language disturbances caused by Alzheimer dementia (AD) from those caused by stroke. Using discriminant function analyses, the multiple variable "aphasia quotient--reading quotient--writing quotient" classified 29 (72.5%) of the 40 patien...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Horner J,Dawson DV,Heyman A,Fish AM

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to replicate and extend previous work demonstrating selective impairment of semantic, but not episodic, memory in late versus early onset Alzheimer's disease (AD). Measures of episodic and semantic memory were administered to 12 pairs of patients; early (less than or equal to 62) and late (gr...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Grosse DA,Gilley DW,Wilson RS

更新日期：1991-11-01 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：:A Thai conduction aphasic's performance on a written confrontation naming task is reported. Analysis of his spelling errors indicated that errors rarely violated Thai phonotactic constraints; consonant substitutions were phonologically similar to the target stimuli; longer stimuli were more likely to be in error; dist...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Gandour J,Dardarananda R,Holasuit S

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemispheric specializations for semantic and syntactic components in Italian (L1) and English (L2) were studied with a dichotic listening test, simulating simultaneous interpretation tasks in 24 right-handed female interpretation students at the Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori (SSLM) of ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Fabbro F,Gran B,Gran L

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:College dyslexic students (DYS) were compared to chronological age (CA)-matched and to reading age (RA)-matched control groups on tasks assessing naming of words and nonwords, regular and irregular words, and the use of context in word identification. The DYS group had the slowest naming latency for words in all tasks...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Ben-Dror I,Pollatsek A,Scarpati S

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conversational discourse patterns of 11 normal elderly and 11 senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type (SDAT) patients engaged in dyadic interaction with an examiner were examined. Differences in word usage, turn taking, and speech act production were investigated both for the two-subject groups and for the examiner's ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Ripich DN,Vertes D,Whitehouse P,Fulton S,Ekelman B

更新日期：1991-04-01 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：: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：:This case report documents the partial recovery, over a 12-month period, of pure alexia in an adult female following a left occipital infarction. Measures of speed and accuracy were obtained on an oral reading and a lexical decision task immediately postonset and then on 10 subsequent occasions. Explicit letter-by-let...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Behrmann M,Black SE,Bub D

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explored a number of temporal (durational) parameters of consonant and vowel production in order to determine whether the speech production impairments of aphasics are the result of the same or different underlying mechanisms and in particular whether they implicate deficits that are primarily phonetic or p...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Baum SR,Blumstein SE,Naeser MA,Palumbo CL

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00