Coexistent impairments in executive functions and language comprehension in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) have been repeatedly observed. In this study, the aim was to provide insights into the interaction between linguistic representation and processing and executive functioning. Therefore, sentence comprehension and executive functions were assessed in 28 Dutch-speaking PD patients an...

The aim of this study was to better characterize the influence of the comprehension probe on syntax-related activation patterns observed in fMRI studies of sentence comprehension. In this study, sentence comprehension was assessed by presenting a true/false statement after each sentence. To disassociate the sentence reading from the comprehension probe activation, a 6-s delay was placed between...

This study investigated the association between cross-language morphological awareness and reading comprehension among second language (English) adult learners who speak Sinhala as a first language. Measures of (sentence-level passage-level) in both languages were administered to appraise learners’ comprehension. The results regression analyses indicated that although was associated with senten...

BACKGROUND Children with severe cerebral palsy (CP) (i.e. 'non-speaking children with severely limited mobility') are restricted in many domains that are important to the acquisition of language. AIMS To investigate comprehension of spoken language on sentence type level in non-speaking children with severe CP. METHODS & PROCEDURES From an original sample of 87 non-speaking children with se...

Title of Document CLARIFYING LINGUISTIC COMPREHENSION IN THE SIMPLE VIEW OF READING: THE INFLUENCE OF WORD-, SENTENCE-, AND DISCOURSE-LEVEL LINGUISTIC SKILLS ON READING COMPREHENSION. Julie Kay Santoro, Ph.D., 2012 Directed By: Assistant Professor, Rebecca D. Silverman, Department of Special Education There are a high number of students who struggle with reading comprehension beyond the primary...

In this study we investigate the comprehension of various kinds of anaphoric metaphors in context. We describe an experiment that manipulated the metaphoricity of simple noun + verb + ending sentences by using either a metaphoric noun or a metaphoric verb or both. Our results show that metaphoric nouns affect sentence comprehension to a greater extent than do metaphoric verbs. Thus, even though...

This article describes a new computational model of aphasic sentence comprehension. The model is based on the premise that all aphasics, however different, share a common deficit which determines a considerable amount of the individual variation observed in their sentence comprehension performance. This common deficit is construed as a pathological reduction in the activation resources of a wor...

We examine the nature of motor representations evoked during comprehension of written sentences describing hand actions. We distinguish between two kinds of hand actions: a functional action, applied when using the object for its intended purpose, and a volumetric action, applied when picking up or holding the object. In Experiment 1, initial activation of both action representations was follow...

The authors argue that the meaning through syntax (MTS) model proposed by G. McKoon and R. Ratcliff fails to account for the comprehension of sentences with reduced relative clauses. First, the theory's core assumptions regarding verb-based event representations and how they link to constructions are incompatible with well-established analyses from the lexical semantics literature. Second, the ...

We consider several recent information^processing models of sentence-picture matching to assess their implications for sentence processing. The representational component of the models describes a task-specific "verification representation" that is derived from a more general representation needed for comprehension. The specific models do not describe the processes by which these representation...