What can repetition, reading and naming tell us about Jargon aphasia?
Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 49Author(s): Emma Pilkington, Karen Sage, James Douglas Saddy, Holly RobsonAbstractJargon aphasia is an acquired language disorder characterised by high proportions of nonword error production, rendering spoken language incomprehensible. There exist two major hypotheses relating to the source of nonword error; one implicates disruption to phonological processing and the other suggests both phonological and lexical contributions. The lexical sources are described as failure in lexical retrieval followed by surrogate phonological construction, or a le...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - September 7, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
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Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - September 5, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Factive and counterfactive interpretation of embedded clauses in aphasia and its relationship with lexical, syntactic and general cognitive capacities
Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 49Author(s): V.C. Zimmerer, R.A. Varley, F. Deamer, W. HinzenAbstractIn factive clausal embedding ([He knows [that it is warm outside]]), the embedded clause is presupposed to be true. In non-factive embedding ([He thinks [that it is warm outside]]) there is no presupposition, and in counterfactive embedding ([It only seems [that it is warm outside]]) the embedded clause is presupposed to be false. These constructions have been investigated as a window into the complexity of language and thought, and there are disputes as to the relative contributio...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - August 24, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Profile of hyperlexia: Reconciling conflicts through a systematic review and meta-analysis
Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 49Author(s): Shuai Zhang, R. Malatesha JoshiAbstractIt is believed that children with poor decoding skills and adequate listening comprehension skills exhibit a dyslexia-type syndrome. However, there is no consensus relating to the other problem that arises: children who have exceptional decoding but poor listening comprehension. Sometimes, these children have been labeled as “individuals exhibiting hyperlexia.” There is no clear understanding of the following aspects of hyperlexia: a) population criteria (e.g., typically vs. atypically developi...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - August 15, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Neuroimaging evidence for sensitivity to orthography-to-phonology conversion in native readers and foreign learners of Chinese
Publication date: Available online 3 August 2018Source: Journal of NeurolinguisticsAuthor(s): Anya Yu, Makayla S.Y. Chen, Sarika Cherodath, Daisy L. Hung, Ovid J.L. Tzeng, Denise H. WuAbstractThrough recent neuroimaging research into brain mechanisms of proficient reading and literacy acquisition in different languages, a common neural network supporting reading has been identified in native readers across various writing systems. However, whether the same or different brain regions are involved in learning to read a foreign language is largely unexplored. To investigate (1) neural correlates of literacy acquisition of Chi...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - August 4, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Bi-lateralized Whorfian effect in color perception: Evidence from Chinese Sign Language
Publication date: Available online 23 July 2018Source: Journal of NeurolinguisticsAuthor(s): Tiansheng Xia, Guiping Xu, Lei MoAbstractConverging behavioral and neural studies have shown a right visual field (RVF) advantage on language's effect on color categorical perception (the Whorfian effect). But little is known about the effect of sign language on deaf people's perception of color categories. To examine whether this lateralized effect also occurs in sign language systems, both behavioral and electrophysiological studies were conducted using visual search and oddball tasks respectively. The visual search results revea...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 24, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Chinese phonological consistency effect in native and second language learners of Chinese: An fMRI study
Publication date: Available online 21 July 2018Source: Journal of NeurolinguisticsAuthor(s): Meng-Yu Tian, Bao-Guo Chen, Huan-Yu Yang, Hong-Yan BiAbstractThe neural basis of learning print-to-sound mapping when Chinese is the second language is still unclear. The present study aimed to examine the neural basis of the phonological consistency effect in non-native speakers who studied Chinese as a second language (L2 learners) for at least 1 year. The fMRI results indicated that the consistency effect occurred in the left supplementary motor area and left precentral gyrus in L2 learners, but not in native Chinese speakers, s...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 22, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Effects of morphological complexity in left temporal cortex: An MEG study of reading Chinese disyllabic words
This study aims to evaluate effects of word-internal variables on reading disyllabic Chinese words by manipulating (a) morphological complexity, defined as the number of morphemes and (b) structural complexity, defined as whether the two syllables relate to each other via the specifier-head-complement structure. In a visual lexical decision task, magnetoencephalography (MEG) was recorded during the reading of four types of Chinese disyllabic words: (1), disyllabic-monomorphemic (e.g., 蚯蚓 “qiu yin” earthworms), used as the control condition; (2) coordinative compounds (such as 花草 “hua cao” flower-grass: plan...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 19, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Episodic future thinking and narrative discourse generation in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Publication date: Available online 17 July 2018Source: Journal of NeurolinguisticsAuthor(s): A. Marini, F. Ferretti, A. Chiera, R. Magni, I. Adornetti, S. Nicchiarelli, S. Vicari, G. ValeriAbstractIndividuals with Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have difficulties in the recollection of past experiences (Episodic Memory). Accumulating evidence suggests that they might have also difficulties in the ability to imagine potential future scenarios (Episodic Future Thinking, EFT) and in narrative generation skills. This investigation aimed to determine 1) whether impairments of EFT can be identified in a large cohort of children ...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 18, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
What is phonological awareness in L2?
Publication date: Available online 7 December 2017Source: Journal of NeurolinguisticsAuthor(s): Elinor Saiegh-HaddadAbstractPhonological awareness is widely recognized as an important component of L2 reading. Phonological awareness is also considered a primarily metalinguistic skill not affected by the individual's L2 language proficiency, or by L1-L2 linguistic distance. The current paper takes a different perspective on L2 phonological awareness. It argues that L2 phonological awareness is affected by L2 language-specific factors, and that these factors may be as equally implicated in phonological awareness in L2 as the ...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Working memory treatment in aphasia: A theoretical and quantitative review
Publication date: Available online 11 December 2017Source: Journal of NeurolinguisticsAuthor(s): Steve MajerusAbstractWorking memory (WM) is a frequent and long-lasting deficit in patients with aphasia. Progress has been made in our understanding of the nature of WM impairment, by considering deficits at the level of maintenance of item and serial order information (short-term memory), deficits at the level of attentional control, and their complex interactions with language impairment. However, WM treatment studies in aphasic patients remain scarce. This theoretical and quantitative review of 15 single-case treatment stud...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Cognitive effort during a short-term memory (STM) task in individuals with aphasia
Publication date: Available online 5 January 2018Source: Journal of NeurolinguisticsAuthor(s): Esther S. Kim, Salima Suleman, Tammy HopperAbstractPeople with aphasia (PWA) have been shown to demonstrate limited short-term memory (STM) span capacity, but little is known about the degree of cognitive effort PWA expend when completing STM tasks. For decades, researchers have used task-evoked pupillary responses (TEPRs) to infer cognitive effort; pupil size increases as the difficulty of a task increases. The purpose of this study was to examine TEPRs while PWA and healthy control participants completed a STM picture span task...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Lexical overlap increases syntactic priming in aphasia independently of short-term memory abilities: Evidence against the explicit memory account of the lexical boost
Publication date: Available online 1 February 2018Source: Journal of NeurolinguisticsAuthor(s): Hao Yan, Randi C. Martin, L. Robert SlevcAbstractSpeakers show syntactic priming – that is, a tendency to repeat syntactic constructions they have recently comprehended or produced – and this tendency is even stronger when adjacent utterances share the same main verb, termed the lexical boost. Some have suggested that abstract syntactic priming (i.e., with no lexical overlap) derives from implicit learning, whereas the lexical boost derives from explicit short-term memory (STM) for the prime (e.g., Chang, Dell, & Bock, 2006)...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Transfer effects on spoken sentence comprehension and functional communication after working memory training in stroke aphasia
Publication date: Available online 10 February 2018Source: Journal of NeurolinguisticsAuthor(s): Lilla Zakariás, Christos Salis, Isabell WartenburgerAbstractRecent treatment protocols have been successful in improving working memory (WM) in individuals with aphasia. However, the evidence to date is small and the extent to which improvements in trained tasks of WM transfer to untrained memory tasks, spoken sentence comprehension, and functional communication is yet poorly understood. To address these issues, we conducted a multiple baseline study with three German-speaking individuals with chronic post-stroke aphasia. Part...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Influence of working memory on stimulus generalization in anomia treatment: A pilot study
Publication date: Available online 15 February 2018Source: Journal of NeurolinguisticsAuthor(s): Stacy M. Harnish, Deena Schwen Blackett, Alexandra Zezinka, Jennifer P. Lundine, Xueliang PanAbstractNeuropsychological testing of distinct cognitive domains holds promise as a prognostic indicator of aphasia therapy success; however, it is unclear the degree to which cognitive assessments may also predict generalization abilities. The present study aimed to assess the relationship between working memory skills and stimulus generalization from a visual picture-naming treatment to an auditory definition-naming task. Seven indivi...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
