Effects of phonological and semantic deficits on facilitative and inhibitory consequences of item repetition in spoken word comprehension.

ABSTRACT: Repeating a word can have both facilitative and inhibitory effects on subsequent processing. The present study investigated these dynamics by examining the facilitative and inhibitory consequences of different kinds of item repetition in two individuals with aphasia and a group of neurologically intact control participants. The two individuals with aphasia were matched on overall aphasia severity, but had deficits at different levels of processing: one with a phonological deficit and spared semantic processing, the other with a semantic deficit and spared phonological processing. Participants completed a spoken word-to-picture matching task in which they had to pick which of four object images matched the spoken word. The trials were grouped into pairs such that exactly two objects from th

SUBMITTER: Mirman D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3779605 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature