Sentence processing in aphasia: An examination of material-specific and general cognitive factors
Publication date: Available online 4 April 2018 Source:Journal of Neurolinguistics Author(s): Laura L. Murray The purpose of this study was to characterize further the nature of sentence processing deficits in acquired aphasia. Adults with aphasia and age- and education-matched adults with no brain damage completed a battery of formal cognitive-linguistic tests and an experimental sentence judgment task, which was performed alone and during focused attention and divided attention or dual-task conditions. The specific aims were to determine whether (a) increased extra-linguistic cognitive demands (i.e., focused and divid...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - April 5, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
On the association between memory capacity and sentence comprehension: Insights from a systematic review and meta-analysis of the aphasia literature
Publication date: Available online 4 April 2018 Source:Journal of Neurolinguistics Author(s): Maria Varkanitsa, David Caplan The role of short-term memory (STM) and working memory (WM) in sentence comprehension has been controversial; many neuropsychological studies and studies with neurologically intact individuals have revealed co-occurrence of STM/WM and sentence comprehension while other studies have found no relation between the two. The aim of this article is to revisit the association between memory capacity and sentence comprehension by systematically reviewing all relevant studies in the aphasia literature pub...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - April 4, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Effects of working memory demands on sentence production in aphasia
Publication date: Available online 31 March 2018 Source:Journal of Neurolinguistics Author(s): Jee Eun Sung, Bora Eom, Soo Eun Lee The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of task demands on sentence production and their relation to working memory (WM) capacity in people with aphasia using a verb-final language. The current study manipulated the WM loads on the sentence production tasks by varying the following three factors: task type (syntactic priming vs. sentence completion), sentence type (active vs. passive), and canonicity (canonical vs. noncanonical word order). Task type and word order canonici...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - March 31, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Radical repetition effects in beginning learners of Chinese as a foreign language reading
Publication date: Available online 23 March 2018 Source:Journal of Neurolinguistics Author(s): Atsuko Takashima, Ludo Verhoeven The aim of the present study was to examine whether repetition of radicals during training of Chinese characters leads to better word acquisition performance in beginning learners of Chinese as a foreign language. Thirty Dutch university students were trained on 36 Chinese one-character words for their pronunciations and meanings. They were also exposed to the specifics of the radicals, that is, for phonetic radicals, the associated pronunciation was explained, and for semantic radicals the as...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - March 24, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Chinese-English bilinguals transfer L1 lexical reading procedures and holistic orthographic coding to L2 English
This study examines second language (L2) reading by individuals with a Chinese or Korean native literacy (L1) background. It tests a hypothesis about the L1-L2 transfer of word reading procedures, which predicts that Chinese-English (CE) bilinguals transfer a bias towards lexical reading procedures and holistic orthographic coding to L2 English reading, whereas Korean-English (KE) bilinguals transfer a bias towards sublexical reading procedures and analytic orthographic coding. To test this hypothesis, we gave a word naming task to CE and KE groups matched on English language experience and use. The stimuli were English wo...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - March 18, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
