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Buckingham, Hugh W.; Buckingham, Sarah S. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2011
Recent work in neuropsychology, clinical aphasiology and neuropharmacology have presented evidence that the causative substrates of recurrent perseveration in adults with aphasia are more recondite and subject to distinct interpretations than originally thought. This article will discuss and evaluate how various proposals from theory, from the…
Descriptors: Neuropsychology, Aphasia, Repetition, Models
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Hula, William D.; Fergadiotis, Gerasimos; Martin, Nadine – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the most appropriate item response theory (IRT) measurement model for aphasia tests requiring 2-choice responses and to determine whether small samples are adequate for estimating such models. Method: Pyramids and Palm Trees (Howard & Patterson, 1992) test data that had been collected from…
Descriptors: Sample Size, Guessing (Tests), Aphasia, Item Response Theory
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Richardson, Fiona M.; Thomas, Michael S. C.; Price, Cathy J. – Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2010
Semantically reversible sentences are prone to misinterpretation and take longer for typically developing children and adults to comprehend; they are also particularly problematic for those with language difficulties such as aphasia or Specific Language Impairment. In our study, we used fMRI to compare the processing of semantically reversible and…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Sentence Structure, Language Impairments