Pantomime interpretation and aphasia

Serón, Xavier; Káa, Mo; Remitz, A.; Linden, M. van der

doi:10.1016/0028-3932(79)90041-1

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“…Semantic distracters are well known to affect aphasic patients' performance in non-linguistic domains, specifically in gesture and pantomime comprehension (Duffy & Watkins, 1984;Seron et al, 1979;Varney, 1978;Varney & Benton, 1982), consistent with our findings. Prior results for affordance-based distracters are less consistent: some studies have found that aphasic patients make more semantic and affordance-based errors compared with neutral errors in pantomime interpretation (Seron et al, 1979;Wang & Goodglass, 1992); in another study more affordancebased than semantic errors were observed (Bell, 1994).…”

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“…Prior results for affordance-based distracters are less consistent: some studies have found that aphasic patients make more semantic and affordance-based errors compared with neutral errors in pantomime interpretation (Seron et al, 1979;Wang & Goodglass, 1992); in another study more affordancebased than semantic errors were observed (Bell, 1994). We observed both kinds of errors, but semantic errors were considerably more frequent.…”

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confidence: 44%

“…Previous studies seeking correlations between patients' performance in various language tests and various action comprehension tests do exist, although stimuli and tasks have often not been closely matched across the two domains. While some of these studies found correlations between language impairments and non-linguistic action processing impairments in aphasic patients (e.g., Duffy & Duffy, 1981;Pickett, 1974;Seron et al, 1979;Varney, 1978Varney, , 1982, others found largely uncorrelated performance (e.g., Bell, 1994;Goodglass & Kaplan, 1963;Kimura, 1977).…”

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“…In addition, following Seron et al (1979), Wang and Goodglass (1992) and Bell (1994), we also used distracters that were related to the targets in the way they may be handled, to see if there are differential effects of this kind of competition (previous researchers termed these morphological, perceptual or motoric distracters; here we refer to these as "affordance-based" distracters; see Gibson, 1977).…”

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“…In particular, aphasic patients' deficits in using and recognizing signs, gestures and pantomime have boy licking an invisible ice-cream cone) to the corresponding object (in this case, the ice-cream cone). We used static black and white drawings of pantomimed actions in our design (like Seron, van der Kaa, Remitz, & van der Linden, 1979) because they are more appropriate visual matches to written text stimuli which are also static in nature.…”

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Action comprehension in aphasia: linguistic and non-linguistic deficits and their lesion correlates

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We tested aphasic patients' comprehension of actions to examine processing deficits in the linguistic and non-linguistic domains and their lesion correlates. Twenty-nine left-hemisphere injured patients and 18 age-matched control subjects matched pictured actions (with the objects missing) or their linguistic equivalents (printed sentences with the object missing) to one of two visually-presented pictures of objects. Aphasic patients performed poorly not only in the linguistic domain but also in the non-linguistic domain. A subset of the patients, largely consisting of severe and non-fluent aphasics, showed a greater deficit in the linguistic domain compared with the non-linguistic domain and across the patient group, deficits in the linguistic and non-linguistic domains were not tightly correlated. Poor performance in pantomime interpretation was associated with lesions in the inferior frontal, premotor and motor cortex, a portion of somatosensory cortex, and the caudate, while poor reading comprehension of actions was associated with lesions around the anterior superior temporal lobe, the anterior insula and the anterior portion of the inferior parietal lobe. Lesion size did not correlate with deficits. The lesion results for pantomime interpretation deficits demonstrate that lesions in the frontal component of the human analog of the "mirror neuron system" are associated with deficits in non-linguistic action understanding. For reading comprehension deficits, the lesion correlates are brain areas known to be involved in linguistic tasks including sentence processing and speech articulation; the parietal lesion site may also correspond to a subpart of the human mirror neuron system. These results indicate that brain areas important for the production of language and action are also recruited in their comprehension. Similar findings have been reported in electrophysiological and neuroimaging studies. Our findings now also lend neuropsychological support to an embodied view of brain organization for action processing.

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Section: Effects Of Semantically Related and Affordance-based Distracmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Action comprehension in aphasia: linguistic and non-linguistic deficits and their lesion correlates

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Cerebral Lateralization and Specialization in Human Central Nervous System

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Gazzaniga

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The sections in this article are: Left Hemisphere Specialization for Language Aphasia and Left Hemisphere Specialization: Dissociation of Syntactic and Semantic Aspects of Language Right Hemisphere Contributions to Language Aberrant Organization for Language Left Hemisphere Specialization for Motor Control Supramodal Theories of Apraxia Definition of Apraxia and Motor‐Programming Device Neural Organization of Praxis Hemispheric Specialization for Intelligence and Consciousness Brain Mechanisms and Intelligence Brain Mechanisms and Consciousness Right Hemisphere Specialization Specialization for Perceptuospatial Skills Manipulospatial Dominance: Motor Component Right Hemisphere Auditory Processing Hemispheric Specialization for Emotion Clinical Studies Experimental Studies Ontogenesis of Hemispheric Specialization Left Hemisphere Specialization for Language Left Hemisphere Specialization for Motor Control Right Hemisphere Specialization for Perceptuospatial Functions Corpus Callosum Summary

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