abstract：:The study describes the sulcal and gyral topography, variability, and left-right asymmetry of the parietal operculum. Eighty postmortem hemispheres as well as sagittal magnetic resonance images from 20 health volunteers (40 hemispheres) were evaluated. Four different types of parietal opercular sulcus topography were ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Steinmetz H,Ebeling U,Huang YX,Kahn T

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded from one midline and three pairs of lateral electrodes while subjects determined whether a pair of sequentially presented pictures had rhyming or nonrhyming names. During the 1.56-sec interval between the two pictures, the slow ERP wave recorded over the left hemisphere wa...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Barrett SE,Rugg MD

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aphasic patients with restricted memory spans were assessed on their comprehension of syntactically simple sentences varying in numbers of content words and on their comprehension of sentences matched in content words but varying in syntactic complexity. Three different presentation modes were used: unlimited visual p...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Martin RC,Feher E

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：:This study has two objectives: (1) to determine through the analysis of surface manifestations of anomia whether one or several anomic syndromes exist, (2) to identify the psycholinguistic process at fault in anomia with reference to M. F. Garrett's (1982, in A. Ellis (Ed.), Normality and pathology in cognitive functi...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Le Dorze G,Nespoulous JL

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven agrammatic Broca's aphasics and ten normal control subjects performed a word-monitoring task to determine the degree to which violations of syntax would affect word-monitoring performance. Both local and long-distance dependencies were explored, as well as the effects of additional interceding words. Results ind...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Baum SR

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropsychological testing of a patient with auditory agnosia showed that certain difficulties in the initial analysis of sounds may be the cause of his inability to understand spoken words and other sounds. Abnormalities included a slow reaction time to brief auditory stimuli (but not to equally brief visual stimuli ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Buchtel HA,Stewart JD

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-two patients with focal cerebral lesions and 11 control patients were examined using alternating tasks of learning, generation, and recall of words beginning with "K." The results supported the hypothesis that "recurrent" and "stuck-in-set" varieties of perserveration are related to posterior and anterior left h...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Vilkki J

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study addressed the question of whether or not speaking rate influences articulatory hypokinesia in dysarthria associated with Parkinson's disease. Analyses of parkinsonian speech samples revealed mean speaking rates consistent with normal controls. Thus, speaking rate was not abnormal overall in this group of dy...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Caligiuri MP

更新日期：1989-04-01 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：:In dichotic listening tasks, the (dominant) right ear's superiority in processing verbal stimuli has been attributed to its direct anatomic connection with the left dominant hemisphere. The role played by extralinguistic factors, such as attention and functional tuning of the associated cortical structures, has not be...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Bhatnager SC,Andy OJ,Korabic EW,Tikofsky RS,Saxena VK,Hellman RS,Collier BD,Krohn LD

更新日期：1989-02-01 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：:In three experiments, cost-benefit analysis was used to determine the role of attention in the processing of auditory information. In two experiments consonant-vowel syllables were presented monaurally, while in the third the mode of presentation was dichotic. For all three experiments the ability to detect a target s...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Murray J,Allard F,Bryden MP

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragile X syndrome is a recently discovered relatively common syndrome linked with an anomaly of the X chromosome and causing handicaps of cognitive development especially in males. In the present phonological analysis we will discuss the sound patterns of two Finnish fragile X speakers, a five (borderline intelligenc...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Vilkman E,Niemi J,Ikonen U

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prosodic contours in the verbal output of 30 patients with Idiopathic Parkinson's disease were contrasted to those of fifteen age-, sex-, and educationally matched normal subjects. All subjects were tested for language disorder, dementia, depression, and the comprehension of linguistic prosody. The striking disorder o...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Darkins AW,Fromkin VA,Benson DF

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutism following brain trauma is quite common, is usually transient, and recovery of speech is essentially the rule. Lasting total absence of speech without aphasia is highly unusual. Three such patients, two of traumatic and one due to vascular origin showing buccofacial apraxia (BFA) and computerized tomography (CT)...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Groswasser Z,Korn C,Groswasser-Reider I,Solzi P

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Auditory-evoked responses (AERs) were recorded from scalp electrodes placed over the left and right temporal hemisphere regions of 12 preschool children while they listened to a series of velar stop consonants which varied in voice onset time (VOT) and to two-formant tone stimuli with temporal lags comparable to the s...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Molfese DL,Molfese VJ

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven severely nonfluent aphasics and one relative or close friend were investigated in an interview situation. The conversation was videotaped and analyzed for the use of nonverbal communication between aphasic and partner. The results indicate that the group of aphasics used significantly more frequently and for a s...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Herrmann M,Reichle T,Lucius-Hoene G,Wallesch CW,Johannsen-Horbach H

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：:The purpose of this study was to determine whether patients with focal brain damage can learn anything about a new word, and if so, whether selected aspects of the new word are acquired depending on the nature of the patient's language processing deficit. In the context of drawing pictures with a number of felt pens i...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Grossman M,Carey S

更新日期：1987-11-01 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：:A detailed acoustic analysis was conducted of the speech production of a single patient presenting with the foreign accent syndrome subsequent to a left-hemisphere stroke in the subcortical white matter of the pre-rolandic and post-rolandic gyri at the level of the body of the lateral ventricle. It was the object of t...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Blumstein SE,Alexander MP,Ryalls JH,Katz W,Dworetzky B

更新日期：1987-07-01 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：:A tachistoscopic study investigated hemispheric specialization among monolingual and fluent French-English bilingual adults for speeded rhyme and syntactic category matching. A right visual field superiority was obtained for both types of verbal judgments. This effect was more pronounced in late bilinguals than in ear...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Vaid J

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Broca's and Wernicke's aphasics' ability to process passive sentences in the absence of semantic cues was investigated in an experiment which varies syntactic complexity and word order. The results indicate that Broca and Wernicke patients use different strategies for sentence comprehension. Wernicke patients use rath...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Friederici AD,Graetz PA

更新日期：1987-01-01 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：:Previous studies demonstrating a right hemisphere lateralization of musical, tonal, and intonational stimuli had suggested that in aphasic tone language speakers, the tonal phonemes might be subject to a lesser degree of deficit than consonantal phonemes. Using a word repetition task, this research demonstrates that l...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Packard JL

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten aphasic and five control subjects were administered an auditory comprehension task similar to Levels I-IV of the Revised Token Test under conditions of 0, 5, 10, and 20 sec of imposed response delay. Responses were evaluated in terms of performance accuracy and response time. Aphasic subjects' response accuracy wa...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Schulte E

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of a recent perceptual study (W. Ziegler & D. von Cramon, 1985, Anticipatory coarticulation in a patient with apraxia of speech. Brain and Language 26, 117-130) provided evidence for disturbed coarticulation in verbal apraxia. Further support for this finding is now provided by acoustic analyses. Formant f...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Ziegler W,von Cramon D

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A well-known feature of Broca's aphasia is the problem of handling "small words." It has been claimed that patients show these problems in both language production and language perception. The traditional dichotomy of "function" words and "content" words is probably not a good description of the classes of words that ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Eling P

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A speculative neuronal model for vowel normalization and representation is offered. The neurophysiological basis for the premise is the "combination-sensitive" neuron recently documented in the auditory cortex of the mustached bat (N. Suga, W. E. O'Neill, K. Kujirai, and T. Manabe, 1983, Journal of Neurophysiology, 49...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Sussman HM

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid, alternating stimulus (RAS) naming measure was designed to study the developing ability in dyslexic readers to direct attention to contextual patterns while performing a rapid serial naming task. The results from a 3-year longitudinal investigation of 98 children indicate three trends. RAS performances differe...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Wolf M

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to communicate by Morse code at high speed has, to our knowledge, not been localized within the cerebral cortex, but might be suspected as residing within the left (dominant) hemisphere. We report a case of a 54-year-old male who suffered a left temporal tip intracerebral hematoma and who temporarily lost ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Wyler AR,Ray MW

更新日期：1986-03-01 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：:Perecman (1984) Brain and Language, 23, 43-63, proposes that language mixing (and especially utterance level mixing) in polyglot aphasics reflects a linguistic deficit and that spontaneous translation indicates a prelinguistic processing deficit. It is argued in this comment that both language mixing (including uttera...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Grosjean F

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Articulatory anticipation of vowel gestures was assessed in an apraxic patient, a dysarthric patient, and three normal speakers. The technique of assessment included perceptual identification of gated speech stimuli. The speech material consisted of /getVte/ utterances with the target vowels /i/, /y/, and /u/. In the ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Ziegler W,von Cramon D

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 13-year-old left-handed boy with a left fronto-parietal vascular malformation evidenced bilateral symmetrical language representation at intracarotid amytal testing. Surgical resection of the parietal motor and frontal premotor area (sparing classical perisylvian language regions) for seizure control resulted in an ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Nass R,Myerson R

更新日期：1985-07-01 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：: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：:Differences between dyslexics and controls in the unimanual and bimanual conditions of the peg placement section of the Purdue Pegboard Test were examined. Twenty-three disabled and twenty-three normal readers were studied. The groups were carefully screened on a neuropsychological battery. The disabled readers were c...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Leslie SC,Davidson RJ,Batey OB

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00