Specific Semantic Word Categories in Aphasia

Goodglass, Harold; Klein, Bertin; Carey, Peter; Jones, Kelly

doi:10.1016/s0010-9452(66)80029-1

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“…A first specific property of number words is that they refer to a narrow category-specific semantic domain that can be selectively spared or impaired by a brain lesion (Cipolotti, Butterworth, & Denes, 1991;Dehaene & Cohen, 1997;Goodglass, Klein, Carey, & James, 1966). It is now well established that word finding and word comprehension difficulties can affect differentially categories such as nouns vs. verbs, tools vs. animals or familiar people, etc.…”

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Neologistic Jargon Sparing Numbers: A Category-specific Phonological Impairment

Dehaene¹

1997

Cognitive Neuropsychology

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Neologistic Jargon Sparing Numbers: A Category-specific Phonological Impairment

Dehaene¹

1997

Cognitive Neuropsychology

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“…Some aphasic patients (most often those with damage affecting the left frontal cortex) have more difficulty producing and comprehending verbs than nouns, while others (typically with left temporal and parietal lesions) show the reverse dissociation (Caramazza and Hillis, 1991;Damasio and Tranel, 1993;Daniele et al, 1994;Goodglass et al, 1966;Luria and Tsvetkova, 1967;Miceli et al, 1984).…”

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Dissociating neural correlates for nouns and verbs

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Dissociations in the ability to produce words of different grammatical categories are well established in neuropsychology but have not been corroborated fully with evidence from brain imaging. Here we report on a PET study designed to reveal the anatomical correlates of grammatical processes involving nouns and verbs. German-speaking subjects were asked to produce either plural and singular nouns, or first-person plural and singular verbs. Verbs, relative to nouns, activated a left frontal cortical network, while the opposite contrast (nouns-verbs) showed greater activation in temporal regions bilaterally. Similar patterns emerged when subjects performed the task with pseudowords used as nouns or as verbs. These results converge with findings from lesion studies and suggest that grammatical category is an important dimension of organization for knowledge of language in the brain. D

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“…There are many reports of brain-damaged patients who have disproportionate problems with verbs while nouns are relatively spared (Breedin, Saffran, & Schwartz, 1998;Goodglass, Klein, Carey, & Jones, 1966;McCarthy & Warrington, 1985;Miceli, Silveri, Villa, & Caramazza, 1984;Rapp & Caramazza, 1997) as well as some patients showing the reverse impairment (Damasio & Tranel, 1993;Zingeser & Berndt, 1990). This double dissociation is often associated with different neuropathology.…”

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Neural processing of nouns and verbs: the role of inflectional morphology

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Dissociations of nouns and verbs following brain damage have been interpreted as evidence for distinct neural substrates underlying different aspects of the language system. Some neuroimaging studies have supported this claim by finding neural differentiation for nouns and verbs [Brain 122 (1999) 2337] while others have argued against neural specialisation [Brain 119 (1996) 159; Brain 124 (2001) 1619]. We suggest that one reason why these inconsistencies may have arisen is because the morphological structure of nouns and verbs has been ignored. In an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study we test the hypothesis that the neural processing of nouns and verbs differs when they are inflected. We contrasted the processing of regularly inflected nouns (dogs) with regularly inflected verbs (hitting), and found that the LIFG was more strongly activated in processing regularly inflected verbs compared to regularly inflected nouns. Moreover, regions of LIFG that were more active in the fMRI study for inflected verbs partially overlapped with the lesions in patients who have particular problems with verb morphology. Taken together with previous studies, these results suggest that noun and verb stems do not differ in terms of their representation, but when verbs are morphologically complex they differentially engage those neural systems which are involved in processes of morpho-phonology and syntax.

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Specific Semantic Word Categories in Aphasia

Cited by 251 publications

References 2 publications

Neologistic Jargon Sparing Numbers: A Category-specific Phonological Impairment

Neologistic Jargon Sparing Numbers: A Category-specific Phonological Impairment

Dissociating neural correlates for nouns and verbs

Neural processing of nouns and verbs: the role of inflectional morphology

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