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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Speech-Language Pathology

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  • Aphasia, a language disorder post-brain damage, impairs sentence production.
  • Implicit structural priming is explored as a novel therapeutic approach.
  • Understanding learning mechanisms is crucial for aphasia recovery.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate implicit structural priming as a treatment for sentence production deficits in persons with aphasia (PWA).
  • To compare the effectiveness of alternating versus single structure prime training conditions.
  • To elucidate the learning mechanisms (error-based vs. activation-based) underlying recovery in PWA.

Main Methods:

  • 16 persons with aphasia (PWA) and 16 controls participated.
  • Baseline, training (3 sessions), and post-testing (1-day, 1-week) were conducted.
  • Participants received both alternating and single structure prime training.

Main Results:

  • Both PWA and controls showed significant improvements in trained and untrained sentence production.
  • Persons with aphasia (PWA) demonstrated greater gains with single structure priming.
  • Controls exhibited more improvement with alternating structure priming.

Conclusions:

  • Implicit structural priming is an effective intervention for improving sentence production in aphasia.
  • Increased base-level activation of syntactic structures aids grammatical encoding in PWA.
  • Single structure priming may be more beneficial for PWA than alternating structures.