Purpose Reorganization of language networks in aphasia takes advantage of the facts that
(a) the brain is an organ of plasticity, with neuronal changes occurring throughout the life …

The present study addressed open questions about the nature of sentence production
deficits in agrammatic aphasia. In two structural priming experiments, 13 aphasic and 13 …

Neuropragmatics investigates brain functions and neural activities responsible for pragmatic
language abilities, often impaired in disorders such as hemisphere damage, autism …

Background: Speakers with agrammatic aphasia have greater difficulty producing
unaccusative (float) compared to unergative (bark) verbs (Kegl,; Lee & Thompson,; …

Healthy aging does not affect all features of language processing equally. In this study, we
investigated the effects of aging on different processes involved in fluent sentence …

Implicit learning is a process of acquiring knowledge that occurs without conscious
awareness of learning, whereas explicit learning involves the use of overt strategies. To …

Background Aphasia following cerebro-vascular accidents has been a primary source of
insight for models of language in the brain. However, deviant language patterns in aphasia …

Numerous authors report that people with aphasia have greater difficulty allocating attention
than people without neurological disorders. Studying how attention deficits contribute to …

Sentence comprehension-the way we process and understand spoken and written
language-is a central and important area of research within psycholinguistics. This book …

Purpose Grammatical encoding (GE) is impaired in agrammatic aphasia; however, the
nature of such deficits remains unclear. We examined grammatical planning units during …