A5032292942- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Language Development and Disorders
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Technology and Human Factors in Education and Health
- Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Education and Professional Development
- Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience
- Subtitles and Audiovisual Media
- Migraine and Headache Studies
- Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility
VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System
2010-2022
University of Pittsburgh
2000-2015
Google (United States)
2000-2015
Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center
2015
This study examined the generality of a previous finding indicating that difficulty suppressing or inhibiting context-inappropriate interpretations is an important predictor narrative discourse comprehension for adults with right brain damage RBD) (C. A. Tompkins, Baumgaertner, M. T. Lehman, & W. Fassbinder, 2000). Forty RBD and 39 without listened to two-sentence stimuli judged whether probe word fit overall stimulus meaning. An ambiguous initial sentence elicited both dominant less...
This study assessed the reliability and validity of intermodality associations differences in persons with aphasia (PWA) healthy controls (HC) on a computerized listening 3 reading versions Revised Token Test (RTT; McNeil & Prescott, 1978).Thirty PWA 30 HC completed test versions, including complete replication. Reading varied according to stimulus presentation method: (a) full-sentence presentation, (b) self-paced word-by-word construction, (c) each word removed onset next word....
Normal comprehension skill is linked with the proficiency of a suppression mechanism, which functions to dampen mental activation that becomes irrelevant or inappropriate final interpretation. This study investigated and discourse in adults right brain damage (RBD). To index function, 40 RBD without listened sentence stimuli biased meaning sentence-final lexical ambiguity (e.g., SPADE), then judged whether probe word CARDS) fit overall meaning. Probes represented contextually meanings...
Background: Various investigators suggest that some discourse‐level comprehension difficulties in adults with right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) have a lexical‐semantic basis. As words are processed, the intact arouses and sustains activation of wide‐ranging network secondary or peripheral meanings features—a phenomenon dubbed "coarse coding". Coarse coding impairment has been postulated to underpin prototypical RHD deficits, such as nonliteral language interpretation, discourse...
Evidence conflicts as to whether adults with right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) generate inferences during text comprehension. M. Beeman (1993) reported that RHD fail activate the lexical-semantic bases of routine bridging inferences, which are necessary for But other evidence indicates multiple interpretations in various comprehension domains. In addition, activation contextually inappropriate is prolonged many and predicts poor discourse This study contrasted Beeman's failure hypothesis...
Abstract Background: Difficulties in social cognition and interaction can characterise adults with unilateral right hemisphere brain damage (RHD). Some pertinent evidence involves their apparently poor reasoning from a "Theory of Mind" perspective, which requires capacity to attribute thoughts, beliefs, intentions order understand other people's behaviour. Theory Mind is typically assessed tasks that induce conflicting mental representations. Prior research commonly used text task reported...
BACKGROUND: The right cerebral hemisphere (RH) sustains activation of subordinate, secondary, less common, and/or distantly related meanings words. Much the pertinent data come from studies homonyms, but some evidence also suggests that RH has a unique maintenance function in relation to unambiguous nouns. In divided visual field priming study, Atchley, Burgess, and Keeney (1999) reported only left field/RH presentation yielded continuing peripheral semantic features were incompatible with...
Background: Persons with aphasia (PWA) have shown difficulties in integrating linguistic materials over time and distance sentence processing. However, few studies investigated sentence-processing among PWA as reflected online processing measures. Furthermore, relatively examined the of syntactically simple but computationally demanding sentences PWA. Such are important from perspective resource-related theories aphasic language deficits, which predict that such should be challenging for...
Background: Comprehension deficits that typify adults with right brain damage (RBD) have been linked to considerations of processing capacity and demands, as well ineffective suppression mental activation is incompatible a contextually intended interpretation. Aims: As first step in investigating how resource factors more specific difficulties like interact yield characteristic RBD comprehension patterns, the current study was designed assess whether function consumes attention. Methods &...
BACKGROUND: Drawing heavily on results from studies with divided visual field (dvf) presentation, current models of hemispheric differences in word semantic processing converge a proposal (henceforth, "the standard model") that is increasingly being applied individuals brain damage. According to this model, left hemisphere processes focus meanings their core, whereas right keep wider representations active. AIMS: This paper has three aims: (a) raise concerns about methodological aspects the...
This study investigated whether prolonged interference from contextually inappropriate semantic activation after right hemisphere damage (RHD) could be related to a slowing of lexical-semantic activation. A total 9 adults with RHD and 8 non-brain-damaged judged auditory probe words fit the overall meaning sentence stimuli that were biased one interpretation sentence-final lexical ambiguity. Probes, presented at 0 1000 ms interstimulus intervals (ISI), represented meanings ambiguities. At...
Event Abstract Back to Cognitive Control, Semantic Processing, and Ambiguity Resolution in Individuals with Aphasia Wiltrud Fassbinder1*, Rebecca Hunting Pompon2, Mohammed Aldhoayan3, Hyun Seung Kim1, Hyunsoo Yoo4, Johannes Hüsing5, Kevin Dalziel6, Jeremy Mancini7 Malcolm R. McNeil1 1 University of Pittsburgh, Communication Sciences Disorders, United States 2 Delaware, Science 3 Health Information Management, 4 The Texas at El Paso, Rehabilitation Sciences, 5 Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg,...