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Katharine Aveni¹, Juweiriya Ahmed², Arielle Borovsky³

¹Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States of America.

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Individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD) can effectively integrate verb meaning to predict upcoming words, similar to healthy adults. This study investigated their combinatorial semantic processing abilities using eye-tracking technology.

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Cognitive Psychology
Linguistics

Background:

Parkinson's disease (PD) is linked to verb and action knowledge deficits, even without cognitive impairment.
The impact of these deficits on combining semantic information during language processing is not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

To test if Parkinson's disease impairs the integration of thematic fit information for online sentence processing.
To compare the predictive language processing abilities of individuals with PD and healthy controls.

Main Methods:

Utilized a visual world paradigm with eye-tracking to monitor participants' gaze patterns.
Participants (24 PD, 24 controls) predicted target objects based on agent-verb combinations in sentences.
Analyzed eye movements using growth curve models to assess predictive processing.

Main Results:

No significant differences were found between PD and control groups in using thematic fit for prediction.
Both groups demonstrated equivalent sentence processing and eye movement patterns.
Exploratory analysis suggested PD participants might use alternative language processing strategies.

Conclusions:

Individuals with Parkinson's disease demonstrate intact ability to use verb meaning for predicting upcoming nouns.
Findings challenge previous notions of verb semantic impairment in PD impacting combinatorial processing.
PD participants may employ compensatory language processing mechanisms.