Showing papers in "Brain and Language in 1979"

TL;DR: It was found that the subject was unable to utilize semantic context in the written disambiguation of spoken homophones but could, at the same time, use even minimal syntactic cues as the basis for proper lexical selection, consistent with other lines of evidence pointing to the relative preservation of syntactic operations.

TL;DR: ificant left visual field superiorities for both character and emotional expression recognition were found and are consistent with experimental and clinical literature which has indicated a right hemispheric superiority for face recognition and for processing emotional stimuli.

TL;DR: Computerized tomography scans were used to localize infarcts in 70 patients to identifyomic aphasics and lesion size correlated with severity and recovery, and comprehension among the subtests.

TL;DR: Techniques of hesitation analysis taken from studies of normal speakers were applied to the speech of a jargon aphasic, and neologisms were found to follow pauses indicating a word-finding difficulty.

TL;DR: The results offer little support for the view that aphasic patients spontaneously enhance their communicative efficacy through the use of gesture; these findings can be interpreted as evidence in favor of a “central organizer” which controls critical features of communication, irrespective of the modality of expression.

TL;DR: The author makes a case for open loop control of well-learned speech patterns under normal circumstances by reviewing studies in which the auditory, tactile, and proprioceptive feedback channels have been distorted or interrupted.

TL;DR: The general successional pattern of velar gestures for a given phonetic context approximated the normal pattern and during the production of nasal and nonnasal consonants the velum tended to take “neutral” positions.

TL;DR: Right-handed subjects were tachistoscopically presented three-letter words and nonword permutations in a single visual field for 20 msec, and their lexical decisions were better than chance, and were superior in the left visual field.

TL;DR: This study compared two levels of syntactic encoding with respect to their effect on aphasics' auditory comprehension, using a picture-verification paradigm to compare sentences containing relational terms of time, comparison, instrumentality, and sentences involving conjunction reduction.

TL;DR: The data suggest right hemisphere involvement in acquiring the reading skills of a new language in Israeli adolescents in their second, fourth, and sixth years of study of English as a second language.

TL;DR: There was no evidence that representations of high-imagery words are lateralized differently than representations of low- Imagery words, and the order of report results showed that right-handers were similar to nonfamilial left- handers; for left half-field presentation, both groups were more accurate than when the arrowhead pointed to the left.

TL;DR: In this article, the cognitive processing strategies of two groups of French-English bilinguals were studied by means of an auditory Stroop test designed to evaluate cerebral hemispheric involvement.

TL;DR: The interrelationships among subject variables proposed as likely candidates for determining cerebral organization, including strength of handedness, familial sinistrality, writing posture, and sex, were examined by means of a questionnaire given to undergraduates.

TL;DR: Evidence that monkeys possess some degree of volitional control has implications for the relation between animal vocalizations and the origin of human speech.

TL;DR: Data for persons having asymmetric damage support a model of pathological left-handedness, with left-handers showing a substantially higher probability of having left brain dysfunction than right- handers.

TL;DR: Compared with other behavioral tasks for assessing language laterality, color-naming seems highly recommended in terms of freedom from spatial-confounding, good percentage agreement with clinical estimates of the frequency of left hemisphere language dominance in right handers, and sensitivity to familial sinistrality influences.

TL;DR: Since the perceptual distinctiveness of phonemes may be provided by durations approximating 50 msec, the nature of the relationship between the left hemisphere's role in temporal processing and speech processing may be elaborated.

TL;DR: Data in this study tend to support a dominance shift hypothesis in the recovery of language after aphasia, and indicated that as aphasics improve in language, cerebral dominance becomes more firmly established in the right cerebral hemisphere.

TL;DR: The results indicate that ASL may be more bilaterally represented than is English and that the spatial component of language stimuli can greatly influence lateral asymmetries.

TL;DR: The speech, neurological, and neuroradiological findings in five additional cases of thalamic hemorrhage with dysphasia are detailed.

TL;DR: Two aphasic adults with a specific acquired dyslexia were given tests requiring the processing of written words and sentences and their performance on comprehension tests was considerable and, moreover, showed meaningful relationships with their ability to read aloud.

TL;DR: It is inferred that the spatial processing required of the signs predominated over their language processing in determining the cerebral asymmetry of the deaf for these stimuli, and that the left-hemisphere advantage to the Arabic numbers was shown.

TL;DR: The results clearly show that ear advantage for speech is influenced by ear dominance for spectral information, and a full understanding of the asymmetry in the perceptual salience of speech sounds in any individual will not be possible without knowing his ear dominance.

TL;DR: Two experiments were conducted to replicate the reported finding that infants demonstrate a right-ear advantage in the perception of dichotically presented CV syllables, using the nonnutritive sucking paradigm.

TL;DR: Results confirm the view that elements not related to the linguistic aspects of a message play a significant role in auditory comprehension and are referred to as paralinguistic.

TL;DR: Longitudinal data on perceptual-motor, cognitive, and linguistic functioning is reported for two children with right hemispherectomy, suggestive of adult patterns of hemispheric specialization, despite the young age of the subjects at the time of brain damage.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the left-hemisphere advantage traditionally found for reading phonological symbols is due to their analytic nature in addition to any effect due to the linguistic association.

TL;DR: Exposure duration and sequential redundancy are major determinants of report accuracy for textual displays and increased emission of left-to-right saccades to both word strings and letter strings are associated with sequential redundancy.

TL;DR: The Stroop Color-Word test was employed to study the amount of interference in naming colors when stimuli were presented in either visual field, and significantly higher error rates were obtained when color words werePresent in the right visual field under the Stroop interference condition.

TL;DR: Subjects were timed as they judged whether items presented to them were English words or not, and Comparisons were made between responses to nouns and to verbs, and between concrete and abstract nouns, on the other hand.