Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Experiment Videos

Sentence processing in the face of semantic loss: a case study.

S Breedin1, E M Saffran

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte 28223-0001, USA. sdbreedi@email.uncc.edu

Journal of Experimental Psychology. General
|January 29, 2000
PubMed
Summary

Syntactic processing remains intact despite significant semantic impairment in patient DM. This finding challenges models that intertwine syntax and semantics in sentence processing.

Related Concept Videos

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

Intact perceptual priming in a patient with damage to the anterior inferior temporal lobes.

Journal of cognitive neuroscience·2013
Same author

Aphasia and the relationship of language and brain.

Seminars in neurology·2001
Same author

The role of computational models in neuropsychological investigations of language: reply to Ruml and Caramazza (2000).

Psychological review·2000
Same author

Quantitative analysis of aphasic sentence production: further development and new data.

Brain and language·2000
Same author

The organization of semantic memory: in support of a distributed model.

Brain and language·2000
Same author

Semantic factors in verb retrieval: an effect of complexity.

Brain and language·1998

Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Neuroscience of language

Background:

  • The modularity of sentence processing is a key debate in psycholinguistics.
  • Understanding the relationship between semantic and syntactic processing is crucial.

Observation:

  • Patient DM exhibits severe semantic knowledge loss.
  • Despite semantic deficits, DM's syntactic abilities were assessed.

Findings:

  • Patient DM maintained intact grammaticality judgments.
  • DM successfully performed sentence comprehension tasks requiring syntactic role assignment.
  • Syntactic processing remained unimpaired despite profound semantic impairment.

Implications:

  • This case challenges models that tightly integrate syntactic and conceptual processing.

Related Experiment Videos

  • Evidence suggests a degree of independence between semantic and syntactic modules.
  • Further research is needed to refine computational models of sentence processing.