Sentence comprehension and morphological cues in aphasia: What eye-tracking reveals about integration and prediction

Hanne, Sandra; Burchert, Frank; Bleser, Ria De; Vasishth, Shravan

doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2014.12.003

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“…Some studies have found evidence suggesting that PWA do engage in prediction, particularly when provided with strong morphosyntactic cues (Hanne, Burchert, De Bleser, & Vasishth, 2015;Warren et al, 2016). Others have not found evidence of predictive processing among PWA.…”

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“…To date, there has been relatively limited investigation of predictive processing in aphasia (Dickey, Warren, Hayes, & Milburn, 2014;Hanne, Burchert, De Bleser, & Vasishth, 2015;Mack, Ji, & Thompson, 2013;Warren, Dickey, & Lei, 2016). Study results have been mixed, with some finding evidence of intact prediction in aphasia (Dickey, Warren, Hayes, & Milburn, 2014;Hanne, Burchert, De Bleser, & Vasishth, 2015;Warren et al, 2016), and others finding evidence of impaired predictive processing (Mack et al, 2013).…”

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“…Study results have been mixed, with some finding evidence of intact prediction in aphasia (Dickey, Warren, Hayes, & Milburn, 2014;Hanne, Burchert, De Bleser, & Vasishth, 2015;Warren et al, 2016), and others finding evidence of impaired predictive processing (Mack et al, 2013). However, these studies have not attempted to tease apart the contribution of these two types of information in predictive processing in aphasia, even though language-specific processing and conceptual-semantic processing can be dissociated among people with aphasia McNeil & Pratt, 2001).…”

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Looking for a Location: Dissociated Effects of Event-Related Plausibility and Verb–Argument Information on Predictive Processing in Aphasia

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2016

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a Purpose: This study examined the influence of verbargument information and event-related plausibility on prediction of upcoming event locations in people with aphasia, as well as older and younger, neurotypical adults. It investigated how these types of information interact during anticipatory processing and how the ability to take advantage of the different types of information is affected by aphasia. Method: This study used a modified visual-world task to examine eye movements and offline photo selection. Twelve adults with aphasia (aged 54-82 years) as well as 44 young adults (aged 18-31 years) and 18 older adults (aged 50-71 years) participated.Results: Neurotypical adults used verb argument status and plausibility information to guide both eye gaze (a measure of anticipatory processing) and image selection (a measure of ultimate interpretation). Argument status did not affect the behavior of people with aphasia in either measure. There was only limited evidence of interaction between these 2 factors in eye gaze data. Conclusions: Both event-related plausibility and verb-based argument status contributed to anticipatory processing of upcoming event locations among younger and older neurotypical adults. However, event-related likelihood had a much larger role in the performance of people with aphasia than did verb-based knowledge regarding argument structure.

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“…For comprehension of declaratives in German-speaking IWA, there is evidence that they can use unambiguous morphological markers for predicting upcoming syntactic structure, although the integration of these cues is delayed (Hanne et al, 2015). So far, two studies have investigated who-question comprehension in German IWA (Neuhaus & Penke, 2008;Wimmer, 2009).…”

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“…We explore comprehension of subject-and object-extracted matrix whoquestions in IWA and a control group of age-matched healthy adults. Our study investigates offline comprehension and online processing of who-questions in a combined fashion using the visual world paradigm, which has been shown to be suitable for studying healthy as well as aphasic sentence processing (Burchert, Hanne, & Vasishth, 2013;Dickey & Thompson, 2009;Hanne, Burchert, De Bleser, & Vasishth, 2015;Meyer, Mack, & Thompson, 2012;Thompson & Choy, 2009). More specifically, we tracked participants' eye movements while they performed a sentence-picture matching task.…”

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On the nature of the subject–object asymmetry in wh-question comprehension in aphasia: evidence from eye tracking

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Background: Individuals with aphasia (IWA) show deficits in comprehending objectextracted declaratives while comprehension of subject-extracted structures is relatively preserved. It is a matter of debate whether this subject-object asymmetry also arises for comprehension of wh-questions. Successful comprehension of wh-questions critically entails correct resolution of a filler-gap dependency. Most previous studies have used only offline accuracy measures to investigate wh-question comprehension in aphasia. Online studies exploring syntactic processing in real time are needed in order to draw inferences about gap-filling abilities in IWA and to identify the point of breakdown in sentence comprehension. Aims: This study aimed at investigating processing of subject and object who-questions in German-speaking IWA and in a group of controls by combining an offline and online method. We further aimed to explore the impact of case-marking cues on processing of wh-questions. Methods & Procedures: Applying a variant of the visual world eye-tracking paradigm, we measured participants' eye movements while they performed the same offline task, which is frequently used to assess comprehension of declaratives (sentence-picture matching).Outcomes & Results: Concerning online processing of who-questions in controls, we found anticipation of the most likely post-verbal theta-role immediately after processing the case-marked wh-pronoun in both subject and object questions. In addition, we observed an unexpected advantage of object over subject questions in terms of processing time. The offline results for IWA revealed that there were three heterogeneous patterns: (a) symmetrical comprehension with equal impairments for both question types, (b) asymmetrical performance with better comprehension of subject than object who-questions, and (c) a reversed asymmetry with better comprehension of object as compared to subject questions. For online processing of both types of who-questions, IWA showed retained abilities in postulating the gap and in associating the filler with this gap, although they were slower as compared to controls. Moreover, similarly to controls, they anticipated the most likely post-verbal theta-role. Conclusions: For controls, the findings provide evidence for rapid resolution of the filler-gap dependency and incremental processing of case-marking cues, reflected in early prediction of upcoming syntactic structure. We attribute faster processing of object questions to faster alignment of the anticipated element with a semantically more salient character. For IWA, the online data provide evidence for retained predictive abilities in processing of filler-gap dependencies in wh-questions, but prediction was delayed. This is most likely attributed to delayed integration of case-marking cues.

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Sentence comprehension and morphological cues in aphasia: What eye-tracking reveals about integration and prediction

Cited by 48 publications

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Looking for a Location: Dissociated Effects of Event-Related Plausibility and Verb–Argument Information on Predictive Processing in Aphasia

Looking for a Location: Dissociated Effects of Event-Related Plausibility and Verb–Argument Information on Predictive Processing in Aphasia

On the nature of the subject–object asymmetry in wh-question comprehension in aphasia: evidence from eye tracking

Intelligent Computing Methods in Language Processing by Brain

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