Learning to fail in aphasia: an investigation of error learning in naming.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To determine whether the naming impairment in aphasia is influenced by error learning and whether error learning is related to type of retrieval strategy.

Method

Nine participants with aphasia and 10 neurologically intact controls named familiar proper noun concepts. When experiencing tip-of-the-tongue naming failure (TOT) in an initial TOT-elicitation phase, participants were instructed to adopt phonological or semantic self-cued retrieval strategies. In the error learning manipulation, items evoking TOT states during TOT elicitation were randomly assigned to a short or long time condition in which participants were encouraged to continue to try to retrieve the name for either 20 s (short interval) or 60 s (long). The incidence of TOT on the same items was measured

SUBMITTER: Middleton EL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3781174 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature