Showing papers in "Journal of Neurolinguistics in 2010"

TL;DR: It is concluded that language-dependent enhancement of pitch representation transfers to other languages with similar phonological systems, suggesting that neural mechanisms local to the brainstem are tuned for processing pitch dimensions that are perceptually salient depending upon the melodic patterns of a language.

TL;DR: An automated and objective approach to modeling discourse that detects very subtle deviations between probands, their first-degree relatives and unrelated healthy controls is presented.

TL;DR: This article conducted a systematic review to examine three crucial questions faced by speech-language pathologists during clinical decision-making: outcomes when language therapy is provided in the secondary (less-dominant) language (L2), extent of cross-language transfer (CLT) and variables that influence CLT, and outcomes when therapy is mediated by a language broker.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored whether pragmatic deficits do or do not coexist with ToM impairments and/or impairments of executive functions in schizophrenia and found that SZ patients exhibit pragmatic impairments which co-occurred with an executive dysfunction such as a lack of flexibility and a ToM deficit.

TL;DR: It is suggested that deviant verbalizations may be more penetrant expressions of schizophrenia susceptibility genes than schizophrenia, and two examples of ways in which thought, language and communication disorders can enrich genetic studies, including those involving schizophrenia.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe speech disfluency characteristics in a group of 32 individuals with Parkinson disease (PD) reading a standard passage, and percentages of within-word and between-word disfluencies were calculated.

TL;DR: A review of the literature pertaining to the complicated phenomenon of acquired stuttering in adults and some tentative explanatory conclusions regarding this disorder are provided.

TL;DR: The results show that bilinguals use their enhanced executive control for linguistic processing involving conflict in spite of no apparent advantage in linguistic processing under simpler conditions.

TL;DR: An overview of a relevant literature that considers the neurocognitive mechanisms by which coherence links are established across clauses in healthy adults is given, providing a framework that may guide future research in this area.

TL;DR: It is suggested that poor social skills are a fundamental feature of schizophrenia that persists from the onset of the illness into older age and is related to the cognitive impairment associated with the illness.

TL;DR: For instance, the authors showed that the deictic frame of the human brain can break down when the distinction between the signifieds from the signifiers is lost. And the nuclear symptoms of schizophrenia are the key to the evolution of language.

TL;DR: In this article, a female speaker of Belgian Dutch who suffered from neurogenic FAS in which she developed a French/German foreign accent after a left hemisphere stroke was described. But, the diagnosis of FAS does not by definition follow from disruption of prosodic processing.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe in detail the narrative abilities of a group of 9 Williams' syndrome participants who underwent careful cognitive evaluation to assess their visual-spatial abilities, sustained attention, phonological short-term memory and lexical as well as grammatical skills in tests of expressive and receptive language.

TL;DR: It is proven that punctuations in Chinese sentences could affect the earlier orthographic extraction processing, and the commas within Chinese sentence could change the syntactic structures of sentences, and play a role of lexical parsing and sentence phrasing, leading the semantic comprehension of sentences to be changed.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the underlying cognitive mechanisms of Chinese orthography-to-phonology transformation and its neural correlates and found higher brain activation in the left inferior and middle frontal gyrus, the left temporoparietal region (inferior parietal gyrus and supramarginal gyrus), and left temporooccipital junction for reading low consistency characters compared to high consistency ones.

TL;DR: This case demonstrates that a psychogenic etiology for foreign accent syndrome should sometimes be considered and that the prognosis for recovery, including spontaneous remission, may be good in such cases.

TL;DR: The results suggest that in Chinese, unlike in other languages, meaning integration does not depend on the intactness of structural information, and suggest that P600 is not only an index of syntactic processes but may be a more general index of the processing of linguistic or perceptual well-formedness in structure in highly constraining context.

TL;DR: The results suggest that schizotypal personality trait of odd speech is associated with differences in how meaningful stimuli activate related concepts in semantic memory, but the pattern of these results is mixed – with different studies reporting either increased or decreased activation ofrelated concepts in schizotypesy.

TL;DR: This study supports a novel technique for the characterization of language-related symptoms of FTLD in clinical trial settings and validates the basis for the clinical diagnosis of semantic dementia as a distinct syndrome.

TL;DR: The way Russian speakers with agrammatism understand and repeat movement-derived sentences is explored, and whether they use morpho-syntactic cues to assist comprehension is examined.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the development of three aspects of linguistic prosody in a group of children with Williams syndrome compared to typically developing children, including the ability to understand and use prosody to make specific words or syllables stand out in an utterance, disambiguate complex noun phrases and regulate conversational behaviour.

TL;DR: The results of this study suggest that symptoms of idiopathic stuttering can begin during adulthood, and that similar neuroanatomical differences from controls may be associated with both developmental and adult onset idiopathy stuttering.

TL;DR: This article investigated the ability of three Greek-speaking agrammatic patients to produce and comprehend wh-questions by means of a wh-question elicitation task and a picture-pointing task.

TL;DR: This paper describes a measurement system designed to quantify fluency in natural spoken language, and demonstrates the sensitivity of the fluency measure as well as the profile of independent or correlated changes across the parameters.

TL;DR: This article found that Putonghua participants discriminate stimuli according to their linguistic function (character versus non-character) more easily than Hong Kong Cantonese participants, while traditional Chinese readers were better able to discriminate characters based on their physical properties (high symmetry character versus low symmetry character).

TL;DR: It is suggested that children with COS exhibit aberrant patterns of neural activity during semantic, and to a lesser extent syntactic, processing and that these functional abnormalities in language-relevant networks are significantly related to severity of thought disorder.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the consequences of vowel alternations between front and back phonemes for the fine structure of lexical representations in German nouns and found that the results of their experiments indicate asymmetries in processing at the phonetics/morpho-phonology interface.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make the hypothesis that neuronal responses for verb grammatical processing may be more or less evident depending on the morphological complexity of verbs in a given language, and they implement an event-related functional MRI design to identify cortical regions that were active when subjects produced nouns or verbs in the context of short phrases.

TL;DR: Papagno et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the comprehension of idioms in an Italian patient with selective atrophy of the left temporal pole, inferior and middle temporal gyri, who showed a reversed concreteness effect on nouns.

TL;DR: In this paper, acoustic-phonetic analyses of the speech of a patient, RD, with FAS presenting as an apparent accent shift from Southern Ontarian to Atlantic Canadian who was first described in Naidoo, Warriner, Oczkowski, Sevigny, and Humphreys (2008).