The time-course of lexical activation during sentence comprehension in aphasia

Ferrill, Michelle and Love-Geffen, Tracy and Shapiro, Lewis P. (2011) The time-course of lexical activation during sentence comprehension in aphasia. [Clinical Aphasiology Paper]

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Abstract

We present a cross-modal priming study using simple active sentence constructions to map out the time-course of lexical activation throughout a sentence. Preliminary findings suggest that in contrast to our unimpaired listeners who demonstrated immediate initial activation of a lexical item and a linear, relatively gradual decay, our participants with agrammatic aphasia demonstrated a pattern of late initial activation, and then immediate decay.  We surmise that this delayed lexical access coupled with the accelerated time-course of decay contributes to what appears to be a disrupted integration process.

Item Type: Clinical Aphasiology Paper
Depositing User: Bingmei Yan
Date Deposited: 10 Aug 2011
Last Modified: 31 Oct 2016 15:13
Conference: Clinical Aphasiology Conference > Clinical Aphasiology Conference (2011 : 41st : Fort Lauderdale, FL : May 31-June 4, 2011)
URI: http://aphasiology.pitt.edu/id/eprint/2292

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