Background: This study investigates the role of lexical information in normal and aphasic sentence comprehension. Effects of verb biases in normal comprehension have been well documented in previous studies (e.g., Spivey-Knowlton & Sedivy, 1995; Trueswell, Tanenhaus, & Kello, 1993), but their role in aphasic language processing has largely been ignored (with the exceptions of Menn et al., 1998,...

INTRODUCTION We evaluated whether transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) can improve picture-naming abilities in subjects with anomic Alzheimer or frontotemporal dementias. METHODS Using a double-blind crossover design, 10 participants were trained on picture naming over a series of 10 sessions with either 30 minutes of anodal (2 mA) tDCS stimulation to the left inferior parieto-tempo...

The key to the successful and effective development of any society is socio-psychological well-being population personality, based on certain legal philosophical concepts. Modern experiences a kind civilizational, philosophical, crisis - transformation norms behavior, against background which various forms deviation are clearly manifested. As result, in context society, for more complete deeper...

Abstract In this paper I argue that many scholars involved in the contemporary free will debates have underappreciated philosophical appeal of agent causation because resources emergentism not been adequately introduced into discussion. Whereas agree causation’s main problem has to do with its intelligibility, particularly respect issue how substances can be causally relevant, notion substance ...

This study describes a treatment project, carried out with two anomic subjects, RBO and GMA failed to name pictures correctly as a consequence of damage to phonological lexical forms; their ability to process word meaning was unimpaired. Words that were consistently comprehended correctly, but produced incorrectly by each subject, were identified. Some words were treated, whereas some served as...

Optic aphasia is a rare syndrome in which patients are unable to name visually presented objects but have no difficulty in naming those objects on tactile or verbal presentation. We report a 79-year-old man who exhibited anomic aphasia after a left posterior cerebral artery territory infarction. His naming ability was intact on tactile and verbal semantic presentation. The results of the system...

The role played by comprehension in oral reading was investigated in three patients with progressive fluent aphasia. For patients J.L. and G.C., there was evidence of a deficit in semantic memory affecting both word production and comprehension. F.M., although equally anomic, had significantly better single-word comprehension than either J.L. or G.C. It was predicted that, for J.L. and G.C., su...