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Van Ettinger-Veenstra, Helene; Ragnehed, Mattias; McAllister, Anita; Lundberg, Peter; Engstrom, Maria – Brain and Language, 2012
In this study we investigated the correlation between individual linguistic ability based on performance levels and their engagement of typical and atypical language areas in the brain. Eighteen healthy subjects between 21 and 64 years participated in language ability tests, and subsequent functional MRI scans measuring brain activity in response…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Correlation, Language Aptitude, Brain Hemisphere Functions
Kahlaoui, Karima; Di Sante, Gabriele; Barbeau, Joannie; Maheux, Manon; Lesage, Frederic; Ska, Bernadette; Joanette, Yves – Brain and Language, 2012
Healthy aging is characterized by a number of changes on brain structure and function. Several neuroimaging studies have shown an age-related reduction in hemispheric asymmetry on various cognitive tasks, a phenomenon captured by Cabeza (2002) in the Hemispheric Asymmetry Reduction in Older Adults (HAROLD) model. Although this phenomenon is…
Descriptors: Evidence, Nouns, Language Processing, Biological Influences
MacGregor, Lucy J.; Corley, Martin; Donaldson, David I. – Brain and Language, 2009
Disfluencies can affect language comprehension, but to date, most studies have focused on disfluent pauses such as "er". We investigated whether disfluent repetitions in speech have discernible effects on listeners during language comprehension, and whether repetitions affect the linguistic processing of subsequent words in speech in ways which…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Fluency, Listening Comprehension, Diagnostic Tests
Maxfield, Nathan D.; Lyon, Justine M.; Silliman, Elaine R. – Brain and Language, 2009
Bailey and Ferreira (2003) hypothesized and reported behavioral evidence that disfluencies (filled and silent pauses) undesirably affect sentence processing when they appear before disambiguating verbs in Garden Path (GP) sentences. Disfluencies here cause the parser to "linger" on, and apparently accept as correct, an erroneous parse. Critically,…
Descriptors: Sentences, Verbs, Gardening, Cognitive Processes
Videsott, Gerda; Herrnberger, Barbel; Hoenig, Klaus; Schilly, Edgar; Grothe, Jo; Wiater, Werner; Spitzer, Manfred; Kiefer, Markus – Brain and Language, 2010
The human brain has the fascinating ability to represent and to process several languages. Although the first and further languages activate partially different brain networks, the linguistic factors underlying these differences in language processing have to be further specified. We investigated the neural correlates of language proficiency in a…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Language Processing
Stoodley, Catherine J.; Schmahmann, Jeremy D. – Brain and Language, 2009
Clinical and imaging studies suggest that the cerebellum is involved in language tasks, but the extent to which slowed language production in cerebellar patients contributes to their poor performance on these tasks is not clear. We explored this relationship in 18 patients with cerebellar degeneration and 16 healthy controls who completed measures…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Phonemics, Semantics, Nouns
Apostolova, Liana G.; Lu, Po; Rogers, Steve; Dutton, Rebecca A.; Hayashi, Kiralee M.; Toga, Arthur W.; Cummings, Jeffrey L.; Thompson, Paul M. – Brain and Language, 2008
We investigated the associations between Boston naming and the animal fluency tests and cortical atrophy in 19 probable AD and 5 multiple domain amnestic mild cognitive impairment patients who later converted to AD. We applied a surface-based computational anatomy technique to MRI scans of the brain and then used linear regression models to detect…
Descriptors: Animals, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Alzheimers Disease, Language Impairments
Griffin, Zenzi M.; Spieler, Daniel H. – Brain and Language, 2006
Research on adult age differences in language production has traditionally focused on either the production of single words or the properties of language samples. Older adults are more prone to word retrieval failures than are younger adults (e.g., Burke, MacKay, Worthley, & Wade, 1991). Older adults also tend to produce fewer ideas per utterance…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Language Processing, Adults, Age Differences
Marczinski, Cecile A.; Kertesz, Andrew – Brain and Language, 2006
This study examined the impact of various degenerative dementias on access to semantic knowledge and the status of semantic representations. Patients with semantic dementia, primary progressive aphasia, and Alzheimer's disease were compared with elderly controls on tasks of category and letter fluency, with number of words generated, mean lexical…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Semantics, Alzheimers Disease, Aphasia