Treatment of anomia with contextual priming: Exploration of a modified procedure with additional semantic and phonological tasks

Renvall, Kati; Laine, Matti; Martin, Nadine

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“…Consequently, the Shewart procedure (see Robey, Schultz, Crawford, & Sinner, 1999) was used to assist in interpretation of treatment and maintenance effects. The Shewart procedure has been used by a number of investigators to assist in the visualisation and interpretation of single-participant research design data (e.g., Faroqi-Shah, 2008; Renvall, Laine, & Martin, 2007; Tuomiranta, Kohen, Kalinyak-Fliszar, Laine, & Martin, 2010). For application of the Shewart procedure, the mean and standard deviation of baseline probe performance are calculated.…”

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Remediation of language processing in aphasia: Improving activation and maintenance of linguistic representations in (verbal) short-term memory

2011

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Background Verbal short-term memory (STM) impairments are invariably present in aphasia. Word processing involves a minimal form of verbal STM, i.e., the time course over which semantic and phonological representations are activated and maintained until they are comprehended, produced, or repeated. Thus it is reasonable that impairments of word processing and verbal STM may co-occur. The co-occurrence of language and STM impairments in aphasia has motivated an active area of research that has revealed much about the relationship of these two systems and the effect of their impairment on language function and verbal learning (Freedman & Martin, 2001; Martin & Saffran, 1999; Trojano & Grossi, 1995). In keeping with this view a number of researchers have developed treatment protocols to improve verbal STM in order to improve language function (e.g., Koenig-Bruhin & Studer-Eichenberger, 2007). This account of aphasia predicts that treatment of a fundamental ability, such as STM, which supports language function, should lead to improvements that generalise to content and tasks beyond those implemented in treatment. Aims We investigated the efficacy of a treatment for language impairment that targets two language support processes: verbal short-term memory (STM) and executive processing, in the context of a language task (repetition). We hypothesised that treatment of these abilities would improve repetition abilities and performance on other language tasks that require STM. Method A single-participant, multiple-baseline, multiple-probe design across behaviours was used with a participant with conduction aphasia. The treatment involved repetition of words and nonwords under three “interval” conditions, which varied the time between hearing and repeating the stimulus. Measures of treatment effects included acquisition, maintenance, and follow-up data, effect sizes, and pre- and post-treatment performance on a test battery that varies the STM and executive function demands of language tasks. Outcomes & Results Improvement of repetition was mostly specific to treated stimuli. Post-treatment measures of language ability indicated improvements in single and multiple word processing tasks, verbal working memory tasks, and verbal span. Conclusions Treatment of STM and executive processes in the context of a word repetition task resulted in improvements in other non-treated language tasks. The approach used in this study can be incorporated into other language-processing tasks typically used in treatment of language disorders (e.g., sentence processing).

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Remediation of language processing in aphasia: Improving activation and maintenance of linguistic representations in (verbal) short-term memory

2011

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“…Thus, assessment with a semantic priming paradigm may contribute to establish a more complete profile of the patient's neuropsychological status and provide relevant information to guide therapy choices in terms of priming effects facilitation in different therapy contexts, which in turn may contribute to improve language, communication abilities 20 . This information may be used to develop intervention programs and strategies, serving as basis for minimizing deficits.…”

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“…The assessment of such effects is done by means of indirect tests, that is, those which involve motor or cognitive activities related to a learning event, but in which the instructions do not directly refer to that. Implicit memory is generally disregarded in most neuropsychological assessment batteries 17,18 and has proven to be an intervention resource in people with explicit memory 19 and communication deficits 20 . Semantic priming paradigms specifically examine priming effects on lexical stimuli, particularly by examining the role of semantic context in word recognition (top-down processing).…”

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Lexical-semantic processing in the semantic priming paradigm in aphasic patients

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There is evidence that the explicit lexical-semantic processing deficits which characterize aphasia may be observed in the absence of implicit semantic impairment. The aim of this article was to critically review the international literature on lexical-semantic processing in aphasia, as tested through the semantic priming paradigm. Specifically, this review focused on aphasia and lexical-semantic processing, the methodological strengths and weaknesses of the semantic paradigms used, and recent evidence from neuroimaging studies on lexical-semantic processing. Furthermore, evidence on dissociations between implicit and explicit lexical-semantic processing reported in the literature will be discussed and interpreted by referring to functional neuroimaging evidence from healthy populations. There is evidence that semantic priming effects can be found both in fluent and in non-fluent aphasias, and that these effects are related to an extensive network which includes the temporal lobe, the pre-frontal cortex, the left frontal gyrus, the left temporal gyrus and the cingulated cortex.

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“…23,24 Contextual priming, a form of indirect cueing, is another phonological cueing treatment method that has been utilized with individuals with aphasia. 25,26 Contextual priming entails repeated naming of phonologically related words. Typically, a PWA will attempt to name a set of three pictures whose names may or may not be phonologically similar at the beginning (e.g., pitcher, pillow, picture) or end of the word (e.g., chain, cane, brain).…”

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Phonological Treatment Approaches for Spoken Word Production in Aphasia

2017

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This article provides an overview of phonological treatment approaches for anomia in individuals with aphasia. The role of phonology in language processing, as well as the impact of phonological impairment on communication is initially discussed. Then, traditional phonologically based treatment approaches, including phonological, orthographic, indirect, guided, and mixed cueing methods, are described. Collectively, these cueing treatment approaches aim to facilitate word retrieval by stimulating residual phonological abilities. An alternative treatment approach, phonomotor treatment, is also examined. Phonomotor treatment aims to rebuild sublexical, phonological sequence knowledge and phonological awareness as a means to strengthen lexical processing and whole-word naming. This treatment is supported by a parallel-distributed processing model of phonology and therefore promotes multimodal training of individual phonemes and phoneme sequences in an effort to enhance the neural connectivity supporting underlying phonological processing mechanisms. The article concludes with suggestions for clinical application and implementation.

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Treatment of anomia with contextual priming: Exploration of a modified procedure with additional semantic and phonological tasks

Cited by 21 publications

References 41 publications

Remediation of language processing in aphasia: Improving activation and maintenance of linguistic representations in (verbal) short-term memory

Remediation of language processing in aphasia: Improving activation and maintenance of linguistic representations in (verbal) short-term memory

Lexical-semantic processing in the semantic priming paradigm in aphasic patients

Phonological Treatment Approaches for Spoken Word Production in Aphasia

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