The role of context in facilitating syntactic decoding in aphasia

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

“…As discussed by Pierce and Wagner (1985), such a distinction may help to account for the discrepant findings of Waller and Darley (1979) since the aphasies used by Waller and Darley (1979) were quite high funetioning. In addition to the possibility thal the level of…”

“…Conceming the use of infomlation contained outside the sentence boundary, converging evidence from a number of studies suggests that the interpretation of sentences and paragraphs by aphasics is influenced by preceding linguistic contexts (Cannito, Jarecki and Pierce, 1986;Friederici, 1983;Germani & Pierce, 1992;Hough, Pierce & Cannito, 1989;Pierce, 1988;PierCe & Beekman, 1985;Pierce & OeStefano, 1987;Pierce & Wagner, 1985;Waller and Darley, 1978). Waller and Darley (Experiment 2,1978), for instance, found that aphasics' comprehension of paragraphs was significantly improved when preceded by a short context of two or three sentences that stated information concerning what was about to be described.…”

“…A possible explanation to account for these discrepant fmdings is provided by the results of Pierce and bis colleagues. In a series of studies (Cannito el al., 1986;Germani & Pierce, 1992;Hough et al, 1989;Pierce & Beekman, 1985;Pierce & DeStefano, 1987;Pierce & Wagner, 1985), they have found evidence to suggest that the discrepant results may be accounted for by the severity of the aphasic patients' comprehension deficits. In particular they found that only aphasics with low comprehension skills benefited from the presence of a preceding linguistic context Pierce & Beekman, 1985;Pierce & Wagner, 1985).…”

Augmented input: The effect of visuographic supports on the auditory comprehension of people with chronic aphasia

“…Previous researchers have studied whether the presence of linguistic supports improves the auditory comprehension of people with aphasia (e.g., Boyle & Canter, 1986;Hough, Pierce, & Cannito, 1989;Pierce & Destefano, 1987;Pierce & Wagner, 1985;Wright & Newhoff, 2004). In these studies linguistic supports consist of auditorily or visually presented information relating to the target information.…”

Effects of word frequency and contextual predictability on sentence reading in aphasia: an eye movement analysis

“…Context effects in aphasia have been described in relation to word retrieval (Mayer & Murray, 2003;Pashek & Tompkins, 2002;Pierce, 1991;Zingeser & Berndt, 1988) as well as to sentence comprehension (Germani & Pierce, 1992;Hough, Pierce, & Cannito, 1989;Pierce, 1988Pierce, , 1991Pierce & Wagner, 1985). For some individuals who present with word finding difficulties it is easier to produce a word if a relevant sentence frame is given, or if word retrieval is linked to connected speech rather than to confrontation naming.…”