Patterns of discourse production among neurological patients with fluent language disorders

Glosser, Guila; Deser, Toni

doi:10.1016/0093-934x(91)90117-j

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“…These studies have consistently found that mild1y and moderately, but not severely impaired aphasics have preserved knowledge of narrative structure as evidenced by their use of essential "superstructure" elements (settings, complications and resolutions) in their narrative accounts. These fmdings have been corroborated by Glosser and Deser (1990) using similar narrative tasks. Differences that emerged between the narrative and procedural discourse produced by aphasies and nonnals were more quantitative rather than…”

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“…Important as well has been the demonstration tha!, irrespective of sentence level comprehension deficits, aphasie individuals may still be capable of engaging in macroprocessing and thereby satisfactorily comprehend (Capian & Evans, 1990;Stachowiak et al, 1977;Waller & Darley, 1978;Wegner et al, 1984) and produce language at the discourse level (Glosser & Deser, 1990;Ulatowska et al, 1990;Ulatowska & Bond, 1983;Ulatowska et al, 1981), consistent with clinical observations.…”

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The Use of Contextual Information by Right Brain-Damaged Individuals in the Resolution of Ambiguous Pronouns

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The Use of Contextual Information by Right Brain-Damaged Individuals in the Resolution of Ambiguous Pronouns

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“…Gernsbacher, 1990) and that these effects have neuropsychological manifestations (e.g., Robertson et al, 2000, for an fMRI experiment;and Münte, Schiltz, & Kutas, 1998, for a study using evoked potentials). In discourse production, it has been shown that neurological patients, including TBI patients, Alzheimer patients, and patients with aphasia, have difficulties with the sufficient and unambiguous use of cohesive ties (e.g., Coelho, Liles, & Duffy, 1995;Glosser & Deser, 1990;Lock & Armstrong, 1997).…”

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Text comprehension after brain injury: Left prefrontal lesions affect inference processes.

Ferstl

Guthke²,

Cramon

2002

Neuropsychology

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Comprehending language in context requires inferencing, particularly for the establishment of local coherence. In the neurolinguistic literature, an inference deficit after right hemisphere brain damage has been postulated, but clinical observation and imaging data suggest that left-frontal lesions might also result in inference deficits. In the present experiment, 25 nonaphasic patients performed a coherence judgment task requiring them to indicate a pragmatic connection between 2 successively presented sentences. Patients with left-temporal or right-frontal lesions performed the task well. In contrast, patients with left-and bifrontal lesions exhibited the most severe deficit. Both error rates and response times were elevated for coherent trials as compared with incoherent trials. These results confirm that the leftfrontal lobe contributes to inference processes.

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“…Reductions in cohesion are believed to result in increased vagueness thereby confusing the intended listener [18]. Glosser and Deser [31] also reported that disrupted cohesion can reflect impaired lexical retrieval during discourse construction. Since cohesion serves to facilitate the continuity of meaning in narrative discourse, it is believed to provide an indirect index of the ability to maintain a topic during discourse production.…”

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“…Ripich and Terrell [31] observed significantly greater use of incomplete and erroneous cohesive ties among individuals with dementia compared to elderly controls. They hypothesized that reference ties serve to structure or organize narrative discourse production and may be more sensitive to neurological disease.…”

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Narrative Discourse Cohesion in Early Stage Parkinson’s Disease

Ellis

Crosson

Rothi

et al. 2015

Journal of Parkinson’s Disease

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Abstract.Background: Models of basal ganglia (BG) function suggest that expressive language deficits will likely and consistently present in BG disease. Disparities currently exist between the predictions of models of BG function in expressive language and data from studies of BG disease. Traditional expressive language assessment methodologies that emphasize measures of language form (word and sentence productivity) while not carefully considering how language is used, may only partially account for these disparities. Objective: To use measures of cohesion to examine the use of cohesive markers in narrative discourse. Methods: Twelve individuals with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) were compared to 12 matched neurologically intact controls on measures of discourse performance. Three discourse samples (typical day, memorable vacation and family) were analyzed for measures of narrative productivity, number of cohesive ties and cohesive adequacy. Mixed model analyses were completed for group comparisons. Results: Group differences were not observed on measures of language form as measured by narrative productivity, communication units, and number of cohesive ties produced. In contrast, group differences were observed in cohesive adequacy as individuals with PD produced a higher percentage of incomplete and erroneous cohesive ties relative the control subjects across narratives. Conclusions: These results support the conclusion that the BG in PD may have an executive role in expressive language use that can be disrupted without impacting language form.

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Patterns of discourse production among neurological patients with fluent language disorders

Cited by 271 publications

References 31 publications

The Use of Contextual Information by Right Brain-Damaged Individuals in the Resolution of Ambiguous Pronouns

The Use of Contextual Information by Right Brain-Damaged Individuals in the Resolution of Ambiguous Pronouns

Text comprehension after brain injury: Left prefrontal lesions affect inference processes.

Narrative Discourse Cohesion in Early Stage Parkinson’s Disease

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