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Birte Reißner^1,2, Wiebke Grohmann¹, Natalja Peiseler³

¹Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.

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Summary

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People with fluent aphasia can adapt quantifier meanings, showing semantic flexibility after stroke, but only with explicit feedback. Non-fluent aphasia patients did not show this quantifier adaptation.

Keywords:

adaptation aphasia feedback flexibility learning quantifier semantics

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Psycholinguistics
Cognitive Psychology

Background:

Quantifier processing involves number knowledge, linguistic skills, and working memory.
Negative quantifiers incur higher processing costs than positive ones.
Semantic flexibility allows quantifier meanings to adapt, influencing their polar opposites in neurotypical individuals.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate quantifier processing and semantic flexibility in stroke patients with fluent and non-fluent aphasia.
To determine if brain damage affects the ability to adapt quantifier meanings and generalize these changes to opposite quantifiers.

Main Methods:

Two experiments were conducted with aphasia patients judging sentences about quantities of colored circles.
Experiment 1 used adaptation to shift quantifier criteria; Experiment 2 used explicit feedback for criterion shifting.
Participants' quantifier criteria were assessed before, during, and after a training block.

Main Results:

Sixteen of 21 aphasia patients completed the study.
Fluent aphasia patients demonstrated semantic flexibility, adapting "many" and generalizing to "few," but only with explicit feedback (Experiment 2).
Non-fluent aphasia patients showed no significant changes in quantifier semantics in either experiment.

Conclusions:

Fluent aphasia patients exhibit semantic flexibility in quantifier processing, particularly when provided with explicit feedback.
Non-fluent aphasia appears to impair this semantic adaptability.
The study offers insights into quantifier processing mechanisms and semantic flexibility post-stroke.