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Impairments of sentence comprehension

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 1994
Abstract We examine two different forms of comprehension impairment, ‘semantic dementia’ and ‘asyntactic comprehension’, focusing on the assignment of thematic roles: the determination of who did it to whom. We show, first, that the loss of word meaning does not impede thematic assignment in semantic dementia, demonstrating that ...
E M, Saffran, M F, Schwartz
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Development of comprehension of sentences with “because” or “if”

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1980
Abstract The comprehension of sentences with “because” or “if” was investigated in children aged 2;9–11;11. Imitation, comprehension (choosing one of two picture sequences to go with a sentence), recognition (judging sentences with connective or structure differences as heard before or not), and synonymy (judging equivalence of meaning in sentences ...
H F, Emerson, W L, Gekoski
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Sentence Comprehension in Aphasia

Language and Linguistics Compass, 2011
Abstract Aphasia is a disorder of language that sometimes occurs in the setting of brain damage. Aphasic disturbances of syntactic comprehension have been described only in recent decades, and have been characterized as the loss of the ability to understand non‐canonical sentences.
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Sentence Comprehension in Alzheimer's Disease

Brain and Language, 1998
We asked 22 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) to respond to simple probes of sentences where we manipulated grammatical factors, semantic factors, and cognitive resource demands associated with a sentence. The results demonstrated limitations in the cognitive resources needed to appreciate atypical syntactic-thematic mapping relations and ...
M, Grossman, T, White-Devine
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Sentence Comprehension

2001
Using sentence comprehension as a case study for all of cognitive science, David Townsend and Thomas Bever offer an integration of two major approaches, the symbolic-computational and the associative-connectionist. The symbolic-computational approach emphasizes the formal manipulation of symbols that underlies creative aspects of language behavior. The
David Townsend, Thomas G. Bever
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Sentence comprehension in multiple sclerosis

Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, 2009
Explanations of sentence processing difficulty in aphasia have implicated slowed information processing speed. We tested this hypothesis by evaluating sentence comprehension in multiple sclerosis (MS), and relating comprehension performance to measures of information processing speed.Twenty right-handed, high school-educated, non-demented, native ...
M, Grossman, K M, Robinson, K, Onishi, H, Thompson, J, Cohen, M, D'Esposito   +5 more
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Sentence Comprehension

2018
This chapter on sentence comprehension reviews prominent sentence comprehension models addressing how people can turn a linear string of words into an understanding of sentence meaning: who did what to whom. A key method is comparing the factors that make one kind of sentence more difficult to comprehend than another, and the chapter discusses the ...
Maryellen C. MacDonald, Yaling Hsiao
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Comprehension of sentences by bottlenosed dolphins

Cognition, 1984
Abstract The ability of two bottlenosed dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) to understand imperative sentences expressed in artificial languages was studied. One dolphin (Phoenix) was tutored in an acoustic language whose words were computer-generated sounds presented through an underwater speaker.
L M, Herman, D G, Richards, J P, Wolz
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The Role of Broca's Area in Sentence Comprehension

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2011
AbstractThe role of Broca's area in sentence processing has been debated for the last 30 years. A central and still unresolved issue is whether Broca's area plays a specific role in some aspect of syntactic processing (e.g., syntactic movement, hierarchical structure building) or whether it serves a more general function on which sentence processing ...
Corianne Rogalsky, Gregory Hickok
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Brain Activation Modulated by Sentence Comprehension

Science, 1996
The comprehension of visually presented sentences produces brain activation that increases with the linguistic complexity of the sentence. The volume of neural tissue activated (number of voxels) during sentence comprehension was measured with echo-planar functional magnetic resonance imaging.
M A, Just, P A, Carpenter, T A, Keller, W F, Eddy, K R, Thulborn   +4 more
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