Recovery of offline and online sentence processing in aphasia: Language and domain-general network neuroplasticity.

ABSTRACT: This paper examined the effects of treatment on both offline and online sentence processing and associated neuroplasticity within sentence processing and dorsal attention networks in chronic stroke-induced agrammatic aphasia. Twenty-three neurotypical adults and 19 individuals with aphasia served as participants. Aphasic individuals were randomly assigned to receive a 12-week course of linguistically-based treatment of passive sentence production and comprehension (N = 14, treatment group) or to serve as control participants (N = 5, natural history group). Both aphasic groups performed two offline tasks at baseline and three months following (at post-testing) to assess production and comprehension of trained passive structures and untrained syntactically related and unrelated structures. T

SUBMITTER: Barbieri E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6825897 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature