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Ash, Sharon; McMillan, Corey; Gross, Rachel G.; Cook, Philip; Morgan, Brianna; Boller, Ashley; Dreyfuss, Michael; Siderowf, Andrew; Grossman, Murray – Brain and Language, 2011
Narrative discourse is an essential component of day-to-day communication, but little is known about narrative in Lewy body spectrum disorder (LBSD), including Parkinson's disease (PD), Parkinson's disease with dementia (PDD), and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). We performed a detailed analysis of a semi-structured speech sample in 32 non-aphasic…
Descriptors: Dementia, Aphasia, Diseases, Patients
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Kaup, Barbara; Ludtke, Jana; Maienborn, Claudia – Brain and Language, 2010
In two experiments using the action-sentence-compatibility paradigm we investigated the simulation processes that readers undertake when processing state descriptions with adjectives (e.g., "Die Schublade ist offen/zu". ["The drawer is open/shut"]) or adjectival passives (e.g., "Die Schublade ist…
Descriptors: Sentences, Simulation, Cognitive Processes, Language Processing
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Martin, Frances Heritage; Kaine, Alison; Kirby, Miriam – Brain and Language, 2006
Cognitive processing of lexical and sub-lexical stimuli was compared for good and poor adult phonological decoders. Sixteen good decoders and 16 poor decoders, average age 19 years, silently read 150 randomly computer presented sentences ending in incongruous regular, irregular, or nonwords and 100 congruent filler sentences.…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Phonology, Adults, Cognitive Processes