Event Related Potential Study of Language Interaction in Bilingual Aphasia Patients.

ABSTRACT: Half of the global population can be considered bilingual. Nevertheless when faced with patients with aphasia, clinicians and therapists usually ignore the patient's second language (L2) albeit its interference in first language (L1) processing has been shown. The excellent temporal resolution by which each individual linguistic component can be gaged during word-processing, promoted the event-related potential (ERP) technique for studying language processing in healthy bilinguals and monolingual aphasia patients. However, this technique has not yet been applied in the context of bilingual aphasia. In the current study, we report on L2 interference in L1 processing using the ERP technique in bilingual aphasia. We tested four bilingual- and one trilingual patients with aphasia, as well as s

SUBMITTER: Khachatryan E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5844919 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature