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

Bilingual deep dysphasia.

Brendan S Weekes1, Ilhan Raman

  • 1University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. B.S.Weekes@sussex.ac.uk

Cognitive Neuropsychology
|July 1, 2008
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Bilingual deep dysphasia impacts language processing, with first-learned language (L1) showing better performance than second-learned (L2). This study explores how language status affects repetition, reading, writing, and translation in bilingual individuals with this condition.

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

Verb specificity effects on semantic processing in Parkinson's disease.

Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior·2026
Same author

The influence of age of acquisition on recall and recognition in Alzheimer's patients and healthy ageing controls in Turkish.

Applied neuropsychology. Adult·2020
Same author

What Influences Language Impairment in Bilingual Aphasia? A Meta-Analytic Review.

Frontiers in psychology·2019
Same author

The Russian version of the Oxford Cognitive Screen: Validation study on stroke survivors.

Neuropsychology·2018
Same author

Dorsolateral Prefrontal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Modulates Language Processing but Does Not Facilitate Overt Second Language Word Production.

Frontiers in neuroscience·2018
Same author

ACC Sulcal Patterns and Their Modulation on Cognitive Control Efficiency Across Lifespan: A Neuroanatomical Study on Bilinguals and Monolinguals.

Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)·2018
Same journal

Spatiotemporal neural dynamics of Chinese word form processing: An SEEG study.

Cognitive neuropsychology·2026
Same journal

An in-depth investigation of face perception in developmental prosopagnosia.

Cognitive neuropsychology·2026
Same journal

Comprehension and production of argument structures by Chinese post-stroke aphasics.

Cognitive neuropsychology·2026
Same journal

Neural signatures of naming retrieval: Theta and Alpha oscillatory dynamics functionally dissociate objects, people and places.

Cognitive neuropsychology·2026
Same journal

Phonological processes and similarity constraints in consonant and vowel substitution errors: Insights from individuals with conduction aphasia.

Cognitive neuropsychology·2026
Same journal

Shortened stimulus exposure time in confrontation naming in aphasia reveals temporal processing impairments: Implications for assessment and treatment of anomia.

Cognitive neuropsychology·2026
See all related articles

Area of Science:

  • Neurolinguistics
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Deep dysphasia is a severe language disorder affecting spoken language production and comprehension.
  • Bilingualism presents unique challenges in understanding language processing deficits, particularly in individuals with acquired language impairments.

Observation:

  • The study examines a Turkish-English bilingual speaker (B.R.B.) diagnosed with deep dysphasia.
  • Performance was analyzed across various language tasks, including repetition, oral reading, writing to dictation, naming, and translation.
  • Semantic errors were observed in repetition, influenced by lexicality and imageability in both languages.

Findings:

  • Repetition performance was significantly better in the first-learned language (L1 - Turkish) compared to the second-learned language (L2 - English).

Related Experiment Videos

  • Language status (L1 vs. L2) affected oral reading, writing, and naming tasks, with repetition showing greater impairment.
  • Spoken-word translation was more impaired than written-word translation, with word class influencing L1 to L2 translation.

    • Implications:

    • Interactive activation models can potentially explain deep dysphasia in bilinguals by considering weaker connection weights in L2 processing.
    • These findings suggest that phonological decay may have a greater impact on L2 task performance due to assumed weaker neural connections.
    • The results contribute to understanding bilingual language processing models and the specific challenges faced by bilingual individuals with acquired language disorders.