Recovery of Sentence Production Processes Following Language Treatment in Aphasia: Evidence from Eyetracking

Mack, Jennifer E.; Nerantzini, Michaela; Thompson, Cynthia K.

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“…Similar priming effects have also been shown for syntactic structures: PWA were increasingly likely to produce specific syntactic structures after hearing them during a picture description task (Saffran & Martin, 1997;Cho-Reyes et al, 2016;Rossi, 2015;Hartsuiker & Kolk, 1998). In addition, sentence-level intervention based on priming mechanisms have shown to improve picture description sentences in PWA (Mack et al, 2017;Lee & Man, 2017;Weinrich et al, 2001). Priming is automatic and is hypothesized to lead to greater availability of a lexical item or syntactic structure, which then results in a lower demand on processing resources for word or sentence production.…”

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The importance of situated language use for aphasia rehabilitation

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There is a growing realization that the traditional approach to studying language, i.e. as a decontextualized,linguistic phenomenon, does not allow us to fully understand communication in the real world. Bystudying the way people process words and sentences in isolation, a wealth of variables that play a role innaturalistic communication are missed. In the study of aphasia, a language impairment caused by acquiredbrain damage such as stroke, a thorough understanding of the mechanisms of naturalistic communicationis imperative, as this is the behaviour therapy aims to improve. The field of aphasiology currently lacksa comprehensive, theoretically founded definition of communication. This lack of understanding, we willargue, makes it nearly impossible to accurately describe a person’s level of communicative ability in everydaylife as well as to predict with certainty what kind of intervention will lead to a change at the levelof communication. In this article we propose a model of situated language use borrowed from sociology,psychology, communication sciences and psycholinguistics, which covers both internal (e.g. individual) andexternal (e.g. environmental) factors that influence communication, including the traditional linguisticskills that have been extensively researched in the past. The model defines language use as: (1) interactive,(2) multimodal, and (3) based on context (common ground). An extensive review of existing researchon each component of the model in non-brain damaged adults and people with aphasia is provided. Theconsequences of adopting this approach to diagnosis and therapy for aphasia are discussed. The aim of thisarticle is to encourage a more systematic approach to the study of situated language use in aphasia.

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“…Similarly, research has repeatedly shown that the context of a sentence or a gesture restricts the number of possible expected meanings of a word (Griffin & Bock, 1998 ; Kutas & Federmeier, 2011 ; Piai et al., 2014 ; Skipper, 2014 ). This effect has also been shown in text and discourse (for a review, see van Berkum, 2009 ), supporting the idea that the language system integrates word, sentence, discourse, and common ground information to allow listeners to predict and interpret language (e.g., Barr & Keysar, 2002 ; Kutas & Federmeier, 2011 ; MacDonald et al., 1994 ). Information that is part of discourse also allows for the use of shorter references (e.g., Barr & Keysar, 2002 ; MacDonald et al., 1994 ), and the recent discourse history helps interlocutors resolve semantic-pragmatic ambiguities.…”

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“…This effect has also been shown in text and discourse (for a review, see van Berkum, 2009 ), supporting the idea that the language system integrates word, sentence, discourse, and common ground information to allow listeners to predict and interpret language (e.g., Barr & Keysar, 2002 ; Kutas & Federmeier, 2011 ; MacDonald et al., 1994 ). Information that is part of discourse also allows for the use of shorter references (e.g., Barr & Keysar, 2002 ; MacDonald et al., 1994 ), and the recent discourse history helps interlocutors resolve semantic-pragmatic ambiguities. For example, the interpretation of anomalous sentences such as ‘the girl comforted the clock’ may depend on fitting within a particular context (Nieuwland & Berkum, 2006 ).…”

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“…People with aphasia were increasingly likely to produce specific syntactic structures after hearing similar syntax during a picture description task (Cho-Reyes et al, 2016;Hartsuiker & Kolk, 1998;Rossi, 2015;Saffran & Martin, 1997). In addition, sentence-level interventions based on priming mechanisms have been shown to improve picture description sentences in people with aphasia (Lee & Man, 2017;Mack et al, 2017;Weinrich et al, 2001). Finally, in an exploratory study Pashek and Tompkins (2002) showed that for both participants with mild anomic aphasia and neurologically healthy controls, the linguistic context facilitated lexical retrieval in connected speech using a video narration task as compared to a confrontation naming task.…”

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What is Functional Communication? A Theoretical Framework for Real-World Communication Applied to Aphasia Rehabilitation

Doedens

Meteyard

2022

Neuropsychol Rev

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Aphasia is an impairment of language caused by acquired brain damage such as stroke or traumatic brain injury, that affects a person’s ability to communicate effectively. The aim of rehabilitation in aphasia is to improve everyday communication, improving an individual’s ability to function in their day-to-day life. For that reason, a thorough understanding of naturalistic communication and its underlying mechanisms is imperative. The field of aphasiology currently lacks an agreed, comprehensive, theoretically founded definition of communication. Instead, multiple disparate interpretations of functional communication are used. We argue that this makes it nearly impossible to validly and reliably assess a person’s communicative performance, to target this behaviour through therapy, and to measure improvements post-therapy. In this article we propose a structured, theoretical approach to defining the concept of functional communication. We argue for a view of communication as “situated language use”, borrowed from empirical psycholinguistic studies with non-brain damaged adults. This framework defines language use as: (1) interactive, (2) multimodal, and (3) contextual. Existing research on each component of the framework from non-brain damaged adults and people with aphasia is reviewed. The consequences of adopting this approach to assessment and therapy for aphasia rehabilitation are discussed. The aim of this article is to encourage a more systematic, comprehensive approach to the study and treatment of situated language use in aphasia.

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“…Next, we used two eyetracking tasks-to evaluate pre-to posttreatment changes in online production and comprehension of passive and active sentences. A syntactic priming task (after Cho & Thompson, 2010) was used to test production: Each trial required participants to read/ repeat an active or passive sentence and 1,500 ms later to produce a sentence describing an action scene using a different verb (Mack, Nerantzini, & Thompson, 2017). For comprehension, the aforementioned auditory sentencepicture matching task was used .…”

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Neurocognitive Recovery of Sentence Processing in Aphasia

Thompson

2019

J Speech Lang Hear Res

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Purpose Reorganization of language networks in aphasia takes advantage of the facts that (a) the brain is an organ of plasticity, with neuronal changes occurring throughout the life span, including following brain damage; (b) plasticity is highly experience dependent; and (c) as with any learning system, language reorganization involves a synergistic interplay between organism-intrinsic (i.e., cognitive and brain) and organism-extrinsic (i.e., environmental) variables. A major goal for clinical treatment of aphasia is to be able to prescribe treatment and predict its outcome based on the neurocognitive deficit profiles of individual patients. This review article summarizes the results of research examining the neurocognitive effects of psycholinguistically based treatment (i.e., Treatment of Underlying Forms; Thompson & Shapiro, 2005 ) for sentence processing impairments in individuals with chronic agrammatic aphasia resulting from stroke and primary progressive aphasia and addresses both behavioral and brain variables related to successful treatment outcomes. The influences of lesion volume and location, perfusion (blood flow), and resting-state neural activity on language recovery are also discussed as related to recovery of agrammatism and other language impairments. Based on these and other data, principles for promoting neuroplasticity of language networks are presented. Conclusions Sentence processing treatment results in improved comprehension and production of complex syntactic structures in chronic agrammatism and generalization to less complex, linguistically related structures in chronic agrammatism. Patients also show treatment-induced shifts toward normal-like online sentence processing routines (based on eye movement data) and changes in neural recruitment patterns (based on functional neuroimaging), with posttreatment activation of regions overlapping with those within sentence processing and dorsal attention networks engaged by neurotypical adults performing the same task. These findings provide compelling evidence that treatment focused on principles of neuroplasticity promotes neurocognitive recovery in chronic agrammatic aphasia. Presentation Video https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.10257587

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Recovery of Sentence Production Processes Following Language Treatment in Aphasia: Evidence from Eyetracking

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References 53 publications

The importance of situated language use for aphasia rehabilitation

The importance of situated language use for aphasia rehabilitation

What is Functional Communication? A Theoretical Framework for Real-World Communication Applied to Aphasia Rehabilitation

Neurocognitive Recovery of Sentence Processing in Aphasia

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