Comprehension and production of movement-derived sentences by Russian speakers with agrammatic aphasia

Friedmann, Naama; Reznick, J. S.; Dolinski-Nuger, Dina; Soboleva, Katya

doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2009.08.002

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“…Next, the participants performed seven grammar tasks from the CYCLE-N (an adaptation of a well-validated clinical instrument for grammar evaluation, the CYCLE; Curtiss and Yamada, 2004 ). The CYCLE-N evaluates aspects of grammar that are known to be particularly vulnerable to brain damage ( Bastiaanse and Thompson, 2003 , Edwards and Varlokosta, 2007 , Friedmann, 2001 , Friedmann et al, 2010 , Linebarger et al, 1983 , Shetreet and Friedmann, 2014 , van der Lely, 1998 ). The test uses pictures that can be interpreted by very young children (even those suffering from substantial cognitive deficits) and adults with progressive dementia ( Curtiss and Yamada, 2004 ; CYCLE manual).…”

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“…Based on the literature showing certain areas of brain damage being linked to impairments in the structures we tested ( Bastiaanse and Thompson, 2003 , Dronkers et al, 2004 , Edwards and Varlokosta, 2007 , Friedmann, 2001 , Friedmann et al, 2010 , Linebarger et al, 1983 , Shetreet and Friedmann, 2014 ) we selected nine ROI in each hemisphere (total ROI N = 18). There were four anterior ROI (BA 44, BA 45, BA 47 and the anterior superior temporal gyrus) and five posterior ROI (the posterior middle temporal gyrus, posterior superior temporal gyrus, anterior and posterior supramarginal gyrus and angular gyrus).…”

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“…In this study we used a comprehensive grammar protocol in pre-surgical language fMRI in epilepsy and tumor patients. We investigated aspects of grammar that are particularly vulnerable to brain pathology: syntactic movement (in relative clauses and questions) and inflectional morphology, particularly Tense ( Linebarger et al, 1983 , Grodzinsky and Finkel, 1998 , van der Lely, 1998 , Friedmann, 2001 , Bastiaanse and Thompson, 2003 , Edwards and Varlokosta, 2007 , Friedmann et al, 2010 , Shetreet and Friedmann, 2014 ). Since this work is hypothesis-driven, we focused on regions that were damaged in those studies.…”

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Improving language mapping in clinical fMRI through assessment of grammar

Połczyńska

Japardi

Curtiss³

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IntroductionBrain surgery in the language dominant hemisphere remains challenging due to unintended post-surgical language deficits, despite using pre-surgical functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) and intraoperative cortical stimulation. Moreover, patients are often recommended not to undergo surgery if the accompanying risk to language appears to be too high. While standard fMRI language mapping protocols may have relatively good predictive value at the group level, they remain sub-optimal on an individual level. The standard tests used typically assess lexico-semantic aspects of language, and they do not accurately reflect the complexity of language either in comprehension or production at the sentence level. Among patients who had left hemisphere language dominance we assessed which tests are best at activating language areas in the brain.MethodWe compared grammar tests (items testing word order in actives and passives, wh-subject and object questions, relativized subject and object clauses and past tense marking) with standard tests (object naming, auditory and visual responsive naming), using pre-operative fMRI. Twenty-five surgical candidates (13 females) participated in this study. Sixteen patients presented with a brain tumor, and nine with epilepsy. All participants underwent two pre-operative fMRI protocols: one including CYCLE-N grammar tests (items testing word order in actives and passives, wh-subject and object questions, relativized subject and object clauses and past tense marking); and a second one with standard fMRI tests (object naming, auditory and visual responsive naming). fMRI activations during performance in both protocols were compared at the group level, as well as in individual candidates.ResultsThe grammar tests generated more volume of activation in the left hemisphere (left/right angular gyrus, right anterior/posterior superior temporal gyrus) and identified additional language regions not shown by the standard tests (e.g., left anterior/posterior supramarginal gyrus). The standard tests produced more activation in left BA 47. Ten participants had more robust activations in the left hemisphere in the grammar tests and two in the standard tests. The grammar tests also elicited substantial activations in the right hemisphere and thus turned out to be superior at identifying both right and left hemisphere contribution to language processing.ConclusionThe grammar tests may be an important addition to the standard pre-operative fMRI testing.

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Improving language mapping in clinical fMRI through assessment of grammar

Połczyńska

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Curtiss³

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“…Correlated with this, sentences in these languages display a greater variety of word orders and, therefore, the word order cue is not as strong as in more rigid word order languages, such as English. Several studies have shown that the processing of case morphology is impaired in PWA (German; Burchert, De Bleser, & Sonntag, 2003;Russian;Friedmann, Reznick, Dolinski-Nuger, & Soboleva, 2010;Hebrew;Friedmann & Shapiro, 2003;Serbo-Croatian;Smith & Mimica, 1984;Turkish: Duman, Altınok, Özgirgin, & Bastiaanse, 2011). However, some cross-linguistic comparisons suggest that aphasic speakers of languages with case marking have certain advantages when it comes to processing derived order sentences.…”

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Eye-tracking the effect of word order in sentence comprehension in aphasia: evidence from Basque, a free word order ergative language

Arantzeta¹,

Bastiaanse

Burchert

et al. 2017

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

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Agrammatic speakers of languages with overt grammatical case show impaired use of the morphological cues to establish theta-role relations in sentences presented in non-canonical word orders. We analysed the effect of word order on the sentence comprehension of aphasic speakers of Basque, an ergative, free word order and head-final (SOV) language. Ergative languages such as Basque establish a one-to-one mapping of the thematic role and the case marker. We collected behavioural and gaze-fixation data while agrammatic speakers performed a picture-matching task with auditorily presented sentences with different word orders. We found that people with aphasia (PWA) had difficulties in assigning theta-roles in Theme-Agent order. This result is in line with processing accounts. Contrary to previous findings, our data do not suggest a systematic delay in the integration of morphological information in the PWA group, but strong reliance on the ergative case morphology and difficulties assigning thematic roles into the determiner phrases.

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“…또 한, 실어증 환자를 대상으로 한 담화 능력 관련 연구라고 할지라도 표현 능력 고찰에만 집중되어 있을 뿐 (Byun, Shin, Kim, & Kim, 2009;Yang, 2000), 담화 내 문장이해를 중심으로 본 연구는 거의 없는 실정이다. Caplan과 Evans (1990) (Caplan et al, 2007;Caramazza & Zurif, 1976;Caramazza, Capasso, Capitani, & Miceli, 2005;Friedmann, Reznick, Dolinski-Nuger, & Soboleva, 2010;Kim JH, 2002;Kim YJ, 2002;Law & Leung, 2000;Nam et al, 1999;O'Grady & Lee, 2005;Son, 2004;Su, Lee, & Chung, 2007;Wassenaar & Hagoort, 2007;Yoon, 2002 핵심어: 실어증, 담화, 통사적 복잡성, 문장이해능력…”

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Effects of Syntactic Complexity on Sentence Comprehension in the Discourse of Persons with Aphasia

Kim¹,

Sung

2016

Commun Sci Disord

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The purpose of the current study was to investigate the effects of syntactic complexity on the accuracy of sentence comprehension in the level of discourse of persons with aphasia. Methods: Fourteen individuals with aphasia and 15 age and education-matched normal individuals participated in the study. Participants were presented with the same discourse contexts, but with different syntactic complexity. Syntactically simple discourse contained active sentences and conjoined sentences. On the contrary, syntactically complex discourse consisted of passive and embedded sentences. Accuracy (%) served as a dependent measure in a sentence judgement task. Two-way mixed ANOVA, one-sample ttest, and correlation coefficients were performed. Results: For both simple and complex discourse types, people with aphasia (PWA) demonstrated greater difficulties than normal controls. Active and conjoined sentences were easier to process than passive and embedded sentence types. The two-way interactions were not significant. Discourse comprehension was, in general, related to aphasia severity and comprehension subtest scores of a standardized aphasia battery in the aphasic group. Conclusion: The results revealed that discourse comprehension was affected by the complexity of syntactic structures that composed discourse levels for PWA. Discourse that contained simple sentences elicited better performance than discourse with complex sentence types. It is clinically important to consider the level of syntactic complexity for assessment and treatment in a discourse level.

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Comprehension and production of movement-derived sentences by Russian speakers with agrammatic aphasia

Cited by 23 publications

References 65 publications

Improving language mapping in clinical fMRI through assessment of grammar

Improving language mapping in clinical fMRI through assessment of grammar

Eye-tracking the effect of word order in sentence comprehension in aphasia: evidence from Basque, a free word order ergative language

Effects of Syntactic Complexity on Sentence Comprehension in the Discourse of Persons with Aphasia

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