Cognitive Neuropsychology

Affective Prosody and Its Impact on the Neurology of Language, Depression, Memory and Emotions

“…Like Broca, Wernicke also reported that lesions of the right hemisphere, specifically involving the posterior temporal opercula region, did not result in sensory aphasia, thus reinforcing the concept that the verbal-linguistic aspects of language are a lateralized function of the left hemisphere. In addition, he proposed that language was represented in the left hemisphere as a large-scale distributed cortical network with "Broca's" area (motor speech center) serving as the nodal point for speech production, "Wernicke's" area (acoustic speech center) serving as the nodal point for verbal comprehension and the surrounding, non-opercula neocortex cortex serving as an "ideational" or "imagery" area in which vast repertoires of information are stored as memory of events, objects and people based on their sensory and motor attributes (see Figure 1, left panel) [4,[11][12][13][14][15]. Contrary to traditional dictum, Wernicke did not localize comprehension to the acoustic speech center but thought that the role of the acoustic speech center was to extract from auditory space those sounds associated with language and to develop and store a phonemic representation of those sounds.…”

Affective Prosody and Its Impact on the Neurology of Language, Depression, Memory and Emotions

“…Like Broca, Wernicke also reported that lesions of the right hemisphere, specifically involving the posterior temporal opercula region, did not result in sensory aphasia, thus reinforcing the concept that the verbal-linguistic aspects of language are a lateralized function of the left hemisphere. In addition, he proposed that language was represented in the left hemisphere as a large-scale distributed cortical network with "Broca's" area (motor speech center) serving as the nodal point for speech production, "Wernicke's" area (acoustic speech center) serving as the nodal point for verbal comprehension and the surrounding, non-opercula neocortex cortex serving as an "ideational" or "imagery" area in which vast repertoires of information are stored as memory of events, objects and people based on their sensory and motor attributes (see Figure 1, left panel) [4,[11][12][13][14][15]. Contrary to traditional dictum, Wernicke did not localize comprehension to the acoustic speech center but thought that the role of the acoustic speech center was to extract from auditory space those sounds associated with language and to develop and store a phonemic representation of those sounds.…”

The resonant dynamics of speech perception: Interword integration and duration-dependent backward effects.

“…How do listeners integrate individual speech sounds, which arrive at the ear as distributed and overlapping acoustic patterns, into coherent percepts of words? Several decades of quantitative research in psycholinguistics (Cutler, Dahan, & van Donselaar, 1997; Lisker, 1985; Repp, 1982; Repp & Liberman, 1987), cognitive neuroscience (Margolin, 1991; S. L. Miller, Delaney, & Tallal, 1995; Rauschecker, 1998), and statistical pattern recognition (Jelinek, 1976, 1995; Lippmann, 1989; C.…”

Connectionist Modeling of the Breakdown and Recovery of Reading via Meaning

“…In a complementary fashion, accounting for the patterns of recovery exhibited by brain-damaged patients undergoing specific treatment can provide a stringent test of cognitive theories. However, relatively few remediation studies have been based directly on cognitive analyses, and while these have been relatively successful, the specific contribution of the cognitive model-typically a box-and-arrow diagram-is often unclear (see Riddoch & Humphreys, 1994;Margolin, 1992;Seron & Deloche, 1989). Coltheart and Byng (1989) undertook a series of remediation studies with a surface dyslexic patient, EE, with left temporal-parietal damage due to a fall.…”

Affective Prosody and Its Impact on the Neurology of Language, Depression, Memory and Emotions

“…Like Broca, Wernicke also reported that lesions of the right hemisphere, specifically involving the posterior temporal opercula region, did not result in sensory aphasia, thus reinforcing the concept that the verbal-linguistic aspects of language are a lateralized function of the left hemisphere. In addition, he proposed that language was represented in the left hemisphere as a large-scale distributed cortical network with "Broca's" area (motor speech center) serving as the nodal point for speech production, "Wernicke's" area (acoustic speech center) serving as the nodal point for verbal comprehension and the surrounding, non-opercula neocortex cortex serving as an "ideational" or "imagery" area in which vast repertoires of information are stored as memory of events, objects and people based on their sensory and motor attributes (see Figure 1, left panel) [4,[11][12][13][14][15]. Contrary to traditional dictum, Wernicke did not localize comprehension to the acoustic speech center but thought that the role of the acoustic speech center was to extract from auditory space those sounds associated with language and to develop and store a phonemic representation of those sounds.…”

The resonant dynamics of speech perception: Interword integration and duration-dependent backward effects.

“…How do listeners integrate individual speech sounds, which arrive at the ear as distributed and overlapping acoustic patterns, into coherent percepts of words? Several decades of quantitative research in psycholinguistics (Cutler, Dahan, & van Donselaar, 1997; Lisker, 1985; Repp, 1982; Repp & Liberman, 1987), cognitive neuroscience (Margolin, 1991; S. L. Miller, Delaney, & Tallal, 1995; Rauschecker, 1998), and statistical pattern recognition (Jelinek, 1976, 1995; Lippmann, 1989; C.…”

Connectionist Modeling of the Breakdown and Recovery of Reading via Meaning

“…In a complementary fashion, accounting for the patterns of recovery exhibited by brain-damaged patients undergoing specific treatment can provide a stringent test of cognitive theories. However, relatively few remediation studies have been based directly on cognitive analyses, and while these have been relatively successful, the specific contribution of the cognitive model-typically a box-and-arrow diagram-is often unclear (see Riddoch & Humphreys, 1994;Margolin, 1992;Seron & Deloche, 1989). Coltheart and Byng (1989) undertook a series of remediation studies with a surface dyslexic patient, EE, with left temporal-parietal damage due to a fall.…”

Affective Prosody and Its Impact on the Neurology of Language, Depression, Memory and Emotions

“…Like Broca, Wernicke also reported that lesions of the right hemisphere, specifically involving the posterior temporal opercula region, did not result in sensory aphasia, thus reinforcing the concept that the verbal-linguistic aspects of language are a lateralized function of the left hemisphere. In addition, he proposed that language was represented in the left hemisphere as a large-scale distributed cortical network with "Broca's" area (motor speech center) serving as the nodal point for speech production, "Wernicke's" area (acoustic speech center) serving as the nodal point for verbal comprehension and the surrounding, non-opercula neocortex cortex serving as an "ideational" or "imagery" area in which vast repertoires of information are stored as memory of events, objects and people based on their sensory and motor attributes (see Figure 1, left panel) [4,[11][12][13][14][15]. Contrary to traditional dictum, Wernicke did not localize comprehension to the acoustic speech center but thought that the role of the acoustic speech center was to extract from auditory space those sounds associated with language and to develop and store a phonemic representation of those sounds.…”

The resonant dynamics of speech perception: Interword integration and duration-dependent backward effects.

“…How do listeners integrate individual speech sounds, which arrive at the ear as distributed and overlapping acoustic patterns, into coherent percepts of words? Several decades of quantitative research in psycholinguistics (Cutler, Dahan, & van Donselaar, 1997; Lisker, 1985; Repp, 1982; Repp & Liberman, 1987), cognitive neuroscience (Margolin, 1991; S. L. Miller, Delaney, & Tallal, 1995; Rauschecker, 1998), and statistical pattern recognition (Jelinek, 1976, 1995; Lippmann, 1989; C.…”

Connectionist Modeling of the Breakdown and Recovery of Reading via Meaning

“…In a complementary fashion, accounting for the patterns of recovery exhibited by brain-damaged patients undergoing specific treatment can provide a stringent test of cognitive theories. However, relatively few remediation studies have been based directly on cognitive analyses, and while these have been relatively successful, the specific contribution of the cognitive model-typically a box-and-arrow diagram-is often unclear (see Riddoch & Humphreys, 1994;Margolin, 1992;Seron & Deloche, 1989). Coltheart and Byng (1989) undertook a series of remediation studies with a surface dyslexic patient, EE, with left temporal-parietal damage due to a fall.…”