Sentence Processing in Aphasia: An Examination of Material-Specific and General Cognitive Factors.

ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to characterize further the nature of sentence processing deficits in acquired aphasia. Adults with aphasia and age-and education-matched adults with no brain damage completed a battery of formal cognitive-linguistic tests and an experimental sentence judgment task, which was performed alone and during focused attention and divided attention or dual-task conditions. The specific aims were to determine whether (a) increased extra-linguistic cognitive demands (i.e., focused and divided conditions) differentially affected the sentence judgement performances of the aphasic and control groups, (b) increased extra- linguistic cognitive demands interact with stimulus parameters (i.e., syntactic complexity, number of propositions) known to influence sentence processin

SUBMITTER: Murray LL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6345386 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature