Differential effects of age-of-acquisition for concrete nouns and action verbs: Evidence for partly distinct representations?

Boulenger, Véronique; Decoppet, Nathalie; Roy, Alice C.; Paulignan, Yves; Nazir, Tatjana A.

doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2006.03.001

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“…naming can merely reflect the lack of power in this analysis, our results fully replicated those of Boulenger, Décoppet, Roy, Paulignan, and Nazir (2008), in a study on normal participants, involving similar stimuli (actions and concrete objects), the same task (naming), but a much larger number of observations than in our study. Double dissociations together with the differential AoA effect for tool nouns and action verbs suggest that their relatedness with identical action contents is not sufficient-or does not constitute the only principle-for determining their organization in the brain.…”

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“…5 The AoA is held to differentially affect words that belong to different classes and are represented within different brain networks (Ghyselinck et al, 2004). Although the lack of correlation between AoA and action 5 Note that AoA can also affect verb retrieval (e.g., Colombo & Burani, 2002;Morrison et al, 2003), depending on the aspects of word processing tapped by a given task (see Boulenger et al, 2008). COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY, 2010, 27 (5) PAPEO ET AL.…”

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Action performance and action-word understanding: Evidence of double dissociations in left-damaged patients

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Negri

Zadini

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Cognitive Neuropsychology

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It has been proposed that language and action representational systems overlap when the tasks used to assess them involve the same stimuli and require abilities acquired at similarly early developmental stage. We matched variables at task and stimulus level to test this hypothesis in a group of 12 left-damaged patients (and 17 controls). At the patients' group level, we replicated previously reported correlations between linguistic and nonlinguistic tasks. When performances were analysed individually, however, double dissociations were observed between the ability to imitate pantomimes and the ability to produce and comprehend the corresponding action verbs, as well as between the ability to use tools and the ability to comprehend the corresponding tool nouns. These findings suggest that processing action words is independent of the ability to produce the associated object-directed actions. Double dissociations were also found between the ability to comprehend action verbs and the ability to comprehend tool nouns. Moreover, action and tool naming showed differential effects of age of acquisition, suggesting that the two word categories meet the lexical organization by word class (nouns and verbs), even when related to identical action concept. Dissociations at behavioural level are supported by anatomical dissociations shown in the analysis of patients' lesions.

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Action performance and action-word understanding: Evidence of double dissociations in left-damaged patients

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Zadini

et al. 2010

Cognitive Neuropsychology

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“…The findings from these ratings were interesting as the results revealed no significant differences between nouns and verbs on their spoken-word frequency and imageability ratings. This is contrary to findings from English (Bird et al, 2001(Bird et al, , 2003 and French (Boulenger et al, 2007), where verbs obtain significantly lower 8 R.S.W. Alyahya and J. Druks imageability ratings compared to nouns.…”

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“…The results revealed that nouns (M = 5.06, SD = 0.73) obtained somewhat higher imageability ratings than verbs (M = 4.88, SD = 0.64), but the difference was not significant (t(98.19) = 1.31, p = .191). These results differ from those in other languages, such as English (e.g., Bird, Franklin, & Howard, 2001) and French (e.g., Boulenger, Décoppet, Roy, Paulignan, & Nazir, 2007), where verbs obtain significantly lower imageability rating compared to nouns. Therefore, a new rating data was collected from a different sample of informants in order to confirm the previous results.…”

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The adaptation of the Object and Action Naming Battery into Saudi Arabic

Alyahya

Druks

2015

Aphasiology

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Background: The Object and Action Naming Battery (OANB) was developed by Druks and Masterson in 2000 in response to the lack of materials for investigating the difference between the availability of nouns and verbs. This battery has been extensively used in psycholinguistic and aphasia research. The battery has also proved to be a useful tool in clinical practice by speech and language therapists. Aims: Till date, there are no published aphasia assessment tools specifically developed for the use of Saudi Arabic speakers. Therefore, the present study aimed to adapt the OANB for the use of Saudi Arabic speakers. This paper describes the adaptation process.Methods & Procedures: Name agreement data for the items in the OANB was collected from 30 non-brain-damaged Saudi Arabic-speaking adults. This was followed by collecting values for the psycholinguistic variables available in the original battery, which are spoken-word frequency, imageability, age of acquisition, and visual complexity.Outcomes & Results: The Saudi Arabic version of the OANB consists of 50 object and 50 action pictures with high level of name agreement (100% for object pictures, and at least 93% for action pictures), along with the normative data for the variables of spoken-word frequency, imageability, age of acquisition, and visual complexity of the verbal labels for the object and action pictures included in the Saudi Arabic version of the battery. Conclusions: This battery makes a significant contribution to aphasia resources available in Saudi Arabia as it can be used in clinical settings at the assessment stage and for therapeutic purposes for individuals with aphasia. The battery can also be used in aphasia and psycholinguistic research with Arabic speakers. IntroductionNaming and word-retrieval impairments are frequently found in all types of aphasia, and are observed in connected speech and structured tasks such as picture naming and sentence completion. Producing words of different classes such as nouns and verbs, and the differences between their availability have been widely investigated in the past 30 years in both psycholinguistic and aphasia research. Studies on noun and verb naming have been conducted among normal adult speakers (e.g., Abel et al., 2009;Bogka et al.,

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“…Although less common, the opposite pattern–relatively spared abstract word access compared to concrete word access–has also been documented [19]–[23]. This double dissociation is strong evidence that access to the two word categories is represented in terms of at least a partially dissociable neural representation, a claim which is has been further buttressed by brain imaging evidence [6], [24]–[28]. Thus, converging evidence from a number of distinct sub-disciplines and methodologies lend support to the hypothesis that abstract and concrete words are in many ways unique, both in terms of their unique lexical-semantic properties and their neural representation.…”

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Arbitrary Symbolism in Natural Language Revisited: When Word Forms Carry Meaning

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Cognitive science has a rich history of interest in the ways that languages represent abstract and concrete concepts (e.g., idea vs. dog). Until recently, this focus has centered largely on aspects of word meaning and semantic representation. However, recent corpora analyses have demonstrated that abstract and concrete words are also marked by phonological, orthographic, and morphological differences. These regularities in sound-meaning correspondence potentially allow listeners to infer certain aspects of semantics directly from word form. We investigated this relationship between form and meaning in a series of four experiments. In Experiments 1–2 we examined the role of metalinguistic knowledge in semantic decision by asking participants to make semantic judgments for aurally presented nonwords selectively varied by specific acoustic and phonetic parameters. Participants consistently associated increased word length and diminished wordlikeness with abstract concepts. In Experiment 3, participants completed a semantic decision task (i.e., abstract or concrete) for real words varied by length and concreteness. Participants were more likely to misclassify longer, inflected words (e.g., “apartment”) as abstract and shorter uninflected abstract words (e.g., “fate”) as concrete. In Experiment 4, we used a multiple regression to predict trial level naming data from a large corpus of nouns which revealed significant interaction effects between concreteness and word form. Together these results provide converging evidence for the hypothesis that listeners map sound to meaning through a non-arbitrary process using prior knowledge about statistical regularities in the surface forms of words.

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Differential effects of age-of-acquisition for concrete nouns and action verbs: Evidence for partly distinct representations?

Cited by 15 publications

References 53 publications

Action performance and action-word understanding: Evidence of double dissociations in left-damaged patients

Action performance and action-word understanding: Evidence of double dissociations in left-damaged patients

The adaptation of the Object and Action Naming Battery into Saudi Arabic

Arbitrary Symbolism in Natural Language Revisited: When Word Forms Carry Meaning

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