Diglossic aphasia and the adaptation of the Bilingual Aphasia Test to Palestinian Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic
Publication date: August 2018Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 47Author(s): Reem Khamis Dakwar, May Ahmar, Rola Farah, Karen FroudAbstractThe Bilingual Aphasia Test (BAT) is a criterion-referenced test developed in multiple languages and language-pairs to identify differential recovery in bilingual aphasia. It was developed to allow equivalent and culturally non-biased examination of all languages spoken by bi- or multi-lingual individuals with aphasia, to enable valid comparison of the residual abilities in each of the languages spoken. This comparison is critical for clinical practice to inform clinical decisio...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
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Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Individual mentalizing ability boosts flexibility toward a linguistic marker of social distance: An ERP investigation
This study sheds light on individual differences among native speakers in flexibly understanding such linguistic markers based on their mentalizing ability (i.e., the ability to infer the mental states of others). Two experiments employing electroencephalography (EEG) consistently showed enhanced early posterior negativities (EPN) for atypical SFP usage compared to typical usage, especially when understanding -ne compared to -yo, in both an SFP appropriateness judgment task and a content comprehension task. Importantly, the amplitude of the EPN for atypical usages of -ne was significantly higher in participants with lower ...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Idiom comprehension in aphasia: Literal interference and abstract representation
Publication date: August 2018Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 47Author(s): Evelyn Milburn, Tessa Warren, Michael Walsh DickeyAbstractWe investigate three potential mechanisms underlying the deficit in idiom comprehension seen in aphasia: difficulty inhibiting literal meanings, inability to recognize that a figurative interpretation is required, and difficulty processing abstract words and concepts. Unimpaired adults and PWA read high and moderate familiarity idioms either preceded or followed by a figuratively biasing context sentence. They then completed a string-to-word probe selection task, choosing between a...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Event-related potentials associated with cognitive mechanisms underlying lexical-semantic processing in monolingual and bilingual 18-month-old children
Publication date: August 2018Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 47Author(s): Pia Rämä, Louah Sirri, Louise GoyetAbstractPrior to their second birthday, children are sensitive to the semantic relatedness between spoken words. Yet, it remains unclear whether simultaneous second language acquisition affects this sensitivity. Here, we investigated the influence of early acquisition of two languages on the event-related potentials (ERPs) associated with lexical-semantic processing of spoken words in 18-month-old monolingual and bilingual children. Children were exposed to an auditory semantic priming task in French, ...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Developmental changes in hemispheric processing of ambiguous words during adolescence
This study may extend the scope of the Fine-Coarse Semantic Coding Theory by including a developmental perspective. (Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics)
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
He catapulted his words from the dais: An ERP investigation of novel verbal metaphors
Publication date: August 2018Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 47Author(s): Alexandre Obert, Fabien Gierski, Stéphanie CailliesAbstractMany ERP studies have highlighted greater semantic processing difficulty for novel metaphors than for literal expressions, reflected by a more negative N400. However, most of these findings were for nominal metaphors, and studies have rarely looked at other types of metaphors, such as verbal predicative metaphors, which involve the metaphorical use of verbs in verb/patient expressions. The aim of the present study was thus to investigate the nature and time course of the cognitiv...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Compound production in agrammatism: Evidence from stroke-induced and Primary Progressive Aphasia
Publication date: August 2018Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 47Author(s): Konstantina Kordouli, Christina Manouilidou, Stavroula Stavrakaki, Dimitra Mamouli, Katerina Afantenou, Panagiotis IoannidisAbstractThe present multiple case study investigates the production of compound words in three Greek-speaking individuals with agrammatism, as a symptom either of stroke-induced aphasia or Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA). Two off-line tasks were conducted, a picture naming and a production by definition task, using different types of compounds, in order to examine patients' ability to produce complex morphological ...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Single and compound logographic Kanji words elicit distinct early neurophysiological responses: ERP evidence from fluent and naïve Kanji readers
Publication date: August 2018Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 47Author(s): Madison A. Niermeyer, Emily Miller, Yuko Tamaoki, Eve Wiggins, Courtney StevensAbstractWhile the N170 to printed words in alphabetic scripts is consistently left-lateralized, the available evidence on logographic scripts is much less consistent. Here, we examined the extent to which use of single-character (e.g.,目) versus compound-character (e.g., 目玉) words in a logographic script could account for differences in the laterality of early neural responses in fluent readers. Participants included both fluent Kanji readers (n = 17) ...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Semantic processing of self-adaptors, emblems, and iconic gestures: An ERP study
Publication date: August 2018Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 47Author(s): Kawai Chui, Chia-Ying Lee, Kanyu Yeh, Pei-Chun ChaoAbstractThe study investigates how the brain processes self-adaptors, semantically-unrelated emblems, and iconic gestures along with speech. The three types of gestures give rise to a continuum of semantic distinctions in relation to the accompanying speech. The overall N400 component occurred between 500 and 800 msec after the simultaneous gesture and speech onsets. In comparison to the speech-only condition, the reduced N400 evidenced the facilitation effect of iconic gestures at the ce...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Effects of combination of linguistic and musical pitch experience on subcortical pitch encoding
In this study, using subcortical electrophysiological measures (frequency following response), we seek to understand the effect of interaction of linguistic pitch experience and musical pitch experience on subcortical lexical and musical pitch encoding. We compared musicians and non-musicians who were native speakers of a tone language on subcortical encoding of linguistic and musical pitch. We found that musicians and non-musicians did not differ on the brainstem encoding of lexical tones. However, musicians showed a more robust brainstem encoding of musical pitch as compared to non-musicians. These findings suggest that ...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Importance conveyed in different ways: Effects of hierarchy and focus
Publication date: August 2018Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 47Author(s): Yingying Wu, Xiaohong Yang, Yufang YangAbstractIn a continuous discourse, the importance of information can be conveyed both implicitly and explicitly. Global discourse hierarchy can convey importance implicitly, such that information at higher hierarchy levels is more important than those at lower hierarchy levels. In contrast, focus can mark importance explicitly, with information in focused positions being more important than that in non-focused positions. In this event-related potential study, we investigated whether the processing of...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Short-term and working memory deficits in aphasia: Current issues in theory, evidence, and treatment
Publication date: Available online 7 July 2018Source: Journal of NeurolinguisticsAuthor(s): Irene Minkina, Christos Salis, Nadine MartinAbstractIn this article, we introduce a special issue of the Journal of Neurolinguistics that focuses on current research in short-term and working memory impairment in aphasia. The papers are summarized briefly and discussed with respect to their individual and collective contributions to our understanding of the role of short-term and working memory processes in language and its impairment in aphasia. The timeliness of the special issue is noted, as it sets the stage for future work in t...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 8, 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 5, 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 5, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
