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Verb processing during sentence comprehension in aphasia.

L P Shapiro1, B A Levine

  • 1Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine.

Brain and Language
|January 1, 1990
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Aphasic individuals show distinct verb processing patterns. Broca's aphasics (agrammatic) process verb argument structures in real-time, unlike fluent aphasics who exhibit semantic deficits.

Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Linguistics
  • Psychology

Background:

  • Aphasia, a language disorder post-brain damage, affects comprehension and production.
  • Verb processing and argument structure sensitivity are crucial for sentence comprehension.
  • Previous research suggests lexical access deficits in agrammatic aphasia.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate on-line verb processing and argument structure sensitivity in Broca's aphasia and fluent aphasia.
  • To determine if agrammatic comprehension deficits extend to real-time verb processing.
  • To explore potential semantic processing deficits in fluent aphasia.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments using a secondary reaction time task during sentence comprehension.
  • Participants included normal controls, Broca's aphasics (agrammatic), and fluent aphasics.

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  • Task measured sensitivity to verb argument structure near and downstream from the verb.

    • Main Results:

    • Normal controls and agrammatic Broca's aphasics activated verb argument structures in real-time near the verb.
    • This sensitivity disappeared downstream from the verb in agrammatic subjects.
    • Fluent aphasics did not show sensitivity to verb argument structure, indicating a potential semantic deficit.

    Conclusions:

    • Agrammatic aphasia's verb processing difficulties may not stem from real-time processing deficits.
    • Fluent aphasia appears to involve a semantic-like sentence processing deficit.
    • Findings differentiate processing mechanisms in distinct aphasia types.