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Poole, Matthew L.; Brodtmann, Amy; Darby, David; Vogel, Adam P. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: Our purpose was to create a comprehensive review of speech impairment in frontotemporal dementia (FTD), primary progressive aphasia (PPA), and progressive apraxia of speech in order to identify the most effective measures for diagnosis and monitoring, and to elucidate associations between speech and neuroimaging. Method: Speech and…
Descriptors: Speech Impairments, Dementia, Aphasia, Clinical Diagnosis
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Lartseva, Alina; Dijkstra, Ton; Kan, Cornelis C.; Buitelaar, Jan K. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2014
This study investigated processing of emotion words in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) using reaction times and event-related potentials (ERP). Adults with (n = 21) and without (n = 20) ASD performed a lexical decision task on emotion and neutral words while their brain activity was recorded. Both groups showed faster responses to emotion words…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Reaction Time, Diagnostic Tests
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Barker, L. A.; Andrade, J.; Morton, N.; Romanowski, C. A. J.; Bowles, D. P. – Neuropsychologia, 2010
This study investigated the "latent deficit" hypothesis in two groups of head-injured patients with predominantly frontal lesions, those injured prior to steep morphological and corresponding functional maturational periods for frontal networks (less than or equal to age 25), and those injured greater than 28 years. The latent deficit hypothesis…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Head Injuries, Pathology, Patients