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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
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Yang, Chin Lung; Perfetti, Charles A.; Liu, Ying – Brain and Language, 2010
In an event-related potentials (ERPs) study, we examined the comprehension of different types of Chinese (Mandarin) relative clauses (object vs. subject-extracted) to test the universality and language specificity of sentence comprehension processes. Because Chinese lacks morphosyntactic cues to sentence constituent relations, it allows a test of…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages)
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Faust, Miriam; Ben-Artzi, Elisheva; Harel, Itay – Brain and Language, 2008
Previous research suggests that the left hemisphere (LH) focuses on strongly related word meanings; the right hemisphere (RH) may contribute uniquely to the processing of lexical ambiguity by activating and maintaining a wide range of meanings, including subordinate meanings. The present study used the word-lists false memory paradigm [Roediger,…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Semantics, Figurative Language, Word Recognition
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Bresson, Christel; Lespinet-Najib, Veronique; Rougier, Alain; Claverie, Bernard; N'Kaoua, Bernard – Brain and Language, 2007
This study investigates the compensatory impact of cognitive aids on left and right temporal lobe epileptic patients suffering from verbal memory disorders, who were candidates for surgery. Cognitive aids are defined in the levels-of-processing framework and deal with the depth of encoding, the elaboration of information, and the use of retrieval…
Descriptors: Surgery, Patients, Cues, Memory
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Aboitiz, Francisco; Garcia, Ricardo R.; Bosman, Conrado; Brunetti, Enzo – Brain and Language, 2006
We have previously proposed that cortical auditory-vocal networks of the monkey brain can be partly homologized with language networks that participate in the phonological loop. In this paper, we suggest that other linguistic phenomena like semantic and syntactic processing also rely on the activation of transient memory networks, which can be…
Descriptors: Memory, Language Processing, Primatology, Brain
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Huang, Jie; Francis, Andrea P.; Carr, Thomas H. – Brain and Language, 2008
A quantitative method is introduced for detecting and correcting artifactual signal changes in BOLD time series data arising from the magnetic field warping caused by motion of the articulatory apparatus when speaking aloud, with extensions to detection of subvocal articulatory activity during silent reading. Whole-head images allow the large,…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Silent Reading, Motion, Memory
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Cumming, T. B.; Graham, K. S.; Patterson, K. – Brain and Language, 2006
Evidence from neurologically normal subjects suggests that repetition priming (RP) is independent of semantic processing. Therefore, we may expect patients with a selective deficit to conceptual knowledge to exhibit RP for words regardless of the integrity of their semantic representations. We tested six patients with semantic dementia (SD) on a…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Processing, Dementia, Patients
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Cooke, Ayanna; Grossman, Murray; DeVita, Christian; Gonzalez-Atavales, Julio; Moore, Peachie; Chen, Willis; Gee, James; Detre, John – Brain and Language, 2006
Our model of sentence comprehension includes at least grammatical processes important for structure-building, and executive resources such as working memory that support these grammatical processes. We hypothesized that a core network of brain regions supports grammatical processes, and that additional brain regions are activated depending on the…
Descriptors: Memory, Grammar, Sentences, Brain
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Chapman, Sandra B.; Gamino, Jacquelyn F.; Cook, Lori G.; Hanten, Gerri; Li, Xiaoqi; Levin, Harvey S. – Brain and Language, 2006
Emerging evidence suggests that a traumatic brain injury (TBI) in childhood may disrupt the ability to abstract the central meaning or gist-based memory from connected language (discourse). The current study adopts a novel approach to elucidate the role of immediate and working memory processes in producing a cohesive and coherent gist-based text…
Descriptors: Memory, Children, Brain, Language Processing
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Jacobsen, Thomas; Horvath, Janos; Schroger, Erich; Lattner, Sonja; Widmann, Andreas; Winkler, Istvan – Brain and Language, 2004
The effects of lexicality on auditory change detection based on auditory sensory memory representations were investigated by presenting oddball sequences of repeatedly presented stimuli, while participants ignored the auditory stimuli. In a cross-linguistic study of Hungarian and German participants, stimulus sequences were composed of words that…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Auditory Perception, Memory, German
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Hochstadt, Jesse; Nakano, Hiroko; Lieberman, Philip; Friedman, Joseph – Brain and Language, 2006
Studies of sentence comprehension deficits in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients suggest that language processing involves circuits connecting subcortical and cortical regions. Anatomically segregated neural circuits appear to support different cognitive and motor functions. To investigate which functions are implicated in PD comprehension…
Descriptors: Memory, Sentences, Neurological Impairments, Patients
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Asp, Elissa; Song, Xiaowei; Rockwood, Kenneth – Brain and Language, 2006
In a study of the discourse of 100 people with Alzheimer's disease treated for 12 months with donepezil, we observed that, as a group, they used a form of tag, described here as a self-referential tag (SRT), 14 times more frequently than did caregivers. Patients use SRTs to check propositions dependent on episodic memory as in I haven't seen the…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Patients, Geriatrics, Cognitive Tests