Why verbs could be more demanding of executive resources than nouns: Insight from a case study of a fv-FTD patient

d’Honincthun, Peggy; Pillon, Agnesa

doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2005.07.033

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“…Stronger effects in the video naming condition were anticipated, based on the behavioral data differences between verb elicitation through pictures and videos reported earlier (D’Honincthun & Pillon, 2005; Naigles et al, 1998; Davidoff & Masterson, 1995). Particularly, there was increased RH activation in the inferior parietal areas associated with transitive action processing (Buccino et al, 2001), including the multimodal association cortex in the supramarginal gyrus (BA 40).…”

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“…Following from the studies discussed (D’Honincthun & Pillon, 2005; Naigles et al, 1998; Davidoff & Masterson, 1995), it is likely that relatively more strategic effort is involved in naming pictures than naming depicted actions. Supporting this, the LH inferior orbitofrontal activation may reflect recruitment of the prefrontal association network involved in modulatory control over many different cognitive demands (Duncan & Owen 2000).…”

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“…D’Honincthun and Pillon (2005) reported a patient with frontotemporal dementia who showed a difference between verb and noun naming under picture naming conditions, with performance on verbs significantly worse that on nouns. However, when the patient was presented with the same verbs and nouns in video format, naming difficulty virtually disappeared.…”

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Argument structure effects in action verb naming in static and dynamic conditions

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Argument structure, as in the participant roles entailed within the lexical representation of verbs, affects verb processing. Recent neuroimaging studies show that when verbs are heard or read, the posterior temporoparietal region shows increased activation for verbs with greater versus lesser argument structure complexity, usually bilaterally. In addition, patients with agrammatic aphasia show verb production deficits, graded based on argument structure complexity. In the present study, we used fMRI to examine the neural correlates of verb production in overt action naming conditions. In addition, we tested the differential effects of naming when verbs were presented dynamically in video segments versus statically in line drawings. Results showed increased neuronal activity associated with production of transitive as compared to intransitive verbs not only in posterior regions, but also in left inferior frontal cortex. We also found significantly greater activation for transitive versus intransitive action naming for videos compared to pictures in the right inferior and superior parietal cortices, areas associated with object manipulation. These findings indicate that verbs with greater argument structure density engender graded activation of both anterior and posterior portions of the language network and support verb naming deficit patterns reported in lesion studies. In addition, the similar findings derived under video and static picture naming conditions provide validity for using videos in neuroimaging studies, which are more naturalistic and perhaps ecologically valid than using static pictures to investigate action naming.

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“…As for verbs, the literature points that this word category is acquired later in language development, is more difficult to process, has a greater range of meanings, is more difficult to comprehend and is more complex syntactically and morphologically when compared with other content word categories (Bates, Chen, Tzeng, Li, & Opie, 1991;Berndt, Mitchum, Haendiges, & Sandson, 1997;Bi, Han, Shu, & Caramazza, 2005;Honincthun & Pillon, 2005). Latin languages, including Portuguese, have a high number of verbal inflexions.…”

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“…Fluent teenagers and adults continued to present a higher number of SLDs in verbs and an even distribution of SLDs among function words. Within this account, although verb processing is thought to be more demanding of executive resources than noun processing because of the great amounts of information represented in verbs (Honincthun & Pillon, 2005), in Portuguese, like in other languages, nouns are frequent and have an extremely important role in conveying semantic information (Rocha Lima, 2002). Prepositions are acquired later in language development, and their use increases with age.…”

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Exchange of disfluency with age from function to content words in Brazilian Portuguese speakers who do and do not stutter

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Andrade

2012

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the exchange of disfluencies from function words to content words with age in Brazilian Portuguese speakers who do and do not stutter. Ninety stuttering individuals and 90 controls, native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese, were divided into three age groups (children, adolescents and adults). The study method involved analyzing the occurrence of stuttering on content and function words based on spontaneous speech samples. Results indicated that children tend to be more disfluent on function words. With the increase in age, teenagers and adults who stutter presented a higher number of disfluencies on content words. These findings support the current literature, indicating that with the aging process, there is an exchange of disfluencies from function to content words. This shift in the disfluency pattern may account for a more advanced type of stuttering. The study also demonstrated that disfluencies in Portuguese speakers follow the same pattern of shifting from function to content words with age as for English speakers.

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Towards theory‐driven therapies for aphasic verb impairments: A review of current theory and practice

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Background: This review is intended for both theoretically and clinically motivated audiences with an interest in aphasic verb impairments. Aims: Building from previous reviews, our aim is to provide a concise summary of the relevant theoretical research and perspectives on verbs, and from this theoretical foundation to explore which aspects have been incorporated and tested in therapy studies. Main Contribution: In the theoretical domain, the review first considers the patterns of verb and noun impairments in aphasic syndromes. Second, an overview of the linguistic differences between verbs and nouns is provided, differences that occur at various levels of linguistic analysis: phonological, morphological, semantic, and syntactic. This is followed by a detailed account of the psycholinguistic perspective on verb-noun differences. Specifically, this section examines the role of variables such as imageability and frequency, and the issue of depiction of actions in static picture versus dynamic video format. Evidence from neuroimaging studies as well as neurodegenerative conditions such as semantic dementia is also reviewed. Finally, the psycholinguistic account further discusses the question of whether verbs (and nouns) serve as primary ordering principles in the cognitive architecture of language processing or whether they should be more accurately viewed as points on an overarching psycholinguistic continuum. Also within the psycholinguistic discussion, event perception is described as a theoretical account with implications for verb processing. Despite the importance of verbs in their pivotal role in connected speech, there is a very limited body of literature on verb therapies and only a small number of the theoretical issues/perspectives have penetrated approaches to treating verb impairments. Ten published papers are described. Two of these directly compare verb and noun therapies, reflecting the many comparisons of noun vs verb impairments in the theoretical literature. The remaining eight consist of purely verb-focused therapies, which also examined the effects of increased verb retrieval skills on related sentence production (reflecting the pivotal role of verbs in connected speech). These eight studies are subdivided between four that targeted verb retrieval only and four that also investigated aspects of verb argument structure and sentence production. Conclusions: The general discussion notes possible new approaches to the treatment of verb deficits that arise from the many factors noted in the theoretical literature which are yet to be fully explored in therapy studies.

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Why verbs could be more demanding of executive resources than nouns: Insight from a case study of a fv-FTD patient

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Argument structure effects in action verb naming in static and dynamic conditions

Argument structure effects in action verb naming in static and dynamic conditions

Exchange of disfluency with age from function to content words in Brazilian Portuguese speakers who do and do not stutter

Towards theory‐driven therapies for aphasic verb impairments: A review of current theory and practice

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