Structurally well-formed narrative production in the face of severe conceptual deterioration: A longitudinal case study of a woman with semantic dementia

Kavé, Gitit; Léonard, Carol; Cupit, Jennifer; Rochon, Elizabeth

doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2006.06.003

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“…Similar conclusions, supporting a semantic rather than a syntactic deficit, are drawn by a variety of studies focusing on verb performance (Grossman, Mickanin, Onishi, & Hughes, 1995Grossman & White-Devine, 1998;Kim & Thompson, 2004;Rhee, Antiquera, & Grossman, 2001;Schwartz, Marin, & Saffran, 1979). A comparable patterndpreserved syntactic knowledge accompanied by marked semantic deficitsdaffecting sentence processing has been found in other forms of dementia (e.g., Bayles, 1982;Cotelli et al, 2007;Kavé, Leonard, Cupit, & Rochon, 2007).…”

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Thematic roles in Alzheimer's disease: Hierarchy violations in psychological predicates

Manouilidou

Almeida

Schwartz

et al. 2009

Journal of Neurolinguistics

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Section: Verb Processing In Adsupporting

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Thematic roles in Alzheimer's disease: Hierarchy violations in psychological predicates

Manouilidou

Almeida

Schwartz

et al. 2009

Journal of Neurolinguistics

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“…) and experimental discourse samples (Kave et al . ). In contrast to Alzheimer's disease, visuo‐spatial skills are well preserved and individuals may retain skills with recent memory for some time into the condition.…”

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Adapting to conversation with semantic dementia: using enactment as a compensatory strategy in everyday social interaction

Kindell

Sage

Keady

et al. 2013

Intl J Lang & Comm Disor

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Background Studies to date in semantic dementia have examined communication in clinical or experimental settings. There is a paucity of research describing the everyday interactional skills and difficulties seen in this condition. Aims To examine the everyday conversation, at home, of an individual with semantic dementia. Methods & Procedures A 71-year-old man with semantic dementia and his wife were given a video camera and asked to record natural conversation in the home situation with no researcher present. Recordings were also made in the home environment, with the individual with semantic dementia in conversation with a member of the research team. Conversation analysis was used to transcribe and analyse the data. Recurring features were noted to identify conversational patterns. Outcomes & Results Analysis demonstrated a repeated practice by the speaker with semantic dementia of acting out a diversity of scenes (enactment). As such, the speaker regularly used direct reported speech along with paralinguistic features (such as pitch and loudness) and non-vocal communication (such as body posture, pointing and facial expression) as an adaptive strategy to communicate with others in conversation. Conclusions & Implications This case shows that while severe difficulties may be present on neuropsychological assessment, relatively effective communicative strategies may be evident in conversation. A repeated practice of enactment in conversation allowed this individual to act out, or perform what he wanted to say, allowing him to generate a greater level of meaningful communication than his limited vocabulary alone could achieve through describing the events concerned. Such spontaneously acquired adaptive strategies require further attention in both research and clinical settings in semantic dementia and analysis of interaction in this condition, using conversation analysis, may be helpful.

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“…The guidelines set out by GornoTempini et al (2011) suggest that a syntactic production impairment in svPPA should be relatively rare, but the possibility is not ruled out. As with the studies of syntactic production in nfvPPA, these studies have primarily used an unconstrained task, such as a narrative language sample, which is then analysed for impaired performance across various syntactic measures in a cross-sectional (Thompson et al, 2012;Wilson et al, 2010) or a longitudinal design (Kavé, Leonard, Cupit, & Rochon, 2007). These studies have found no difference between the svPPA group and age-matched controls on syntactic measures, such as proportion of grammatical utterances produced (Kavé et al, 2007;Thompson et al, 2012), nor with correctly produced verb inflection and verb argument structures (Thompson et al, 2012;Wilson et al, 2010).…”

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“…As with the studies of syntactic production in nfvPPA, these studies have primarily used an unconstrained task, such as a narrative language sample, which is then analysed for impaired performance across various syntactic measures in a cross-sectional (Thompson et al, 2012;Wilson et al, 2010) or a longitudinal design (Kavé, Leonard, Cupit, & Rochon, 2007). These studies have found no difference between the svPPA group and age-matched controls on syntactic measures, such as proportion of grammatical utterances produced (Kavé et al, 2007;Thompson et al, 2012), nor with correctly produced verb inflection and verb argument structures (Thompson et al, 2012;Wilson et al, 2010). One exception to this is found in a study by Meteyard and Patterson (2009), in which the svPPA group produced more "complex substitutions" of verbs (0.67%) compared to the productions by the control group (0.0003%), but there was no difference in subject-verb agreement errors between the groups and, they argue, "no evidence of gross syntactic violations" (p. 130).…”

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Wh-questions and passive sentences in non-fluent variant PPA and semantic variant PPA: Longitudinal findings of an anagram production task

Cupit

Graham

Léonard

et al. 2016

Cognitive Neuropsychology

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Using an anagram task, we investigated longitudinal syntactic production by individuals with semantic variant primary progressive aphasia (svPPA) and non-fluent variant PPA (nfvPPA), compared to controls. The accuracy of the production of active and passive, and reversible and non-reversible sentences, as well as of wh- questions was compared across the three groups. Results showed a different pattern of syntactic impairment across the two patient groups. The nfvPPA group showed difficulty with wh- questions at Time 1 and impairment with the passive structure approximately one year later, at Time 2. Surprisingly, the svPPA group also showed difficulty with wh- questions from Time 1, but still no difficulty on passive sentences, two years later, at Time 3. Neither group had difficulty with reversibility. The results of the nfvPPA patients were as expected, and the results of the svPPA patients suggest that this group may exhibit a greater syntactic impairment than is typically recognized.

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Structurally well-formed narrative production in the face of severe conceptual deterioration: A longitudinal case study of a woman with semantic dementia

Cited by 29 publications

References 46 publications

Thematic roles in Alzheimer's disease: Hierarchy violations in psychological predicates

Thematic roles in Alzheimer's disease: Hierarchy violations in psychological predicates

Adapting to conversation with semantic dementia: using enactment as a compensatory strategy in everyday social interaction

Wh-questions and passive sentences in non-fluent variant PPA and semantic variant PPA: Longitudinal findings of an anagram production task

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