... Hernández, M., Costa, A., Sebastián‐Gallés, N., Juncadella, M. and Reñé, R. 2007. ... Journal... more ... Hernández, M., Costa, A., Sebastián‐Gallés, N., Juncadella, M. and Reñé, R. 2007. ... Journal of Memory and Language , 33: 600629. [CrossRef], [Web of Science ®], [CSA] View all references; Duyck & Brysbaert, 200823. Duyck, W. and Brysbaert, M. 2008. ...
We report the naming performance of a Spanish patient (AQF) suffering from Primary Progressive Ap... more We report the naming performance of a Spanish patient (AQF) suffering from Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA). AQF's performance revealed a grammatical category-specific deficit, with poorer performance in verb than in noun naming. Furthermore, this dissociation was only present in written naming. Importantly, the patient's dissociation between nouns and verbs was present also when we studied her performance with homonymous words. We argue that this dissociation is not due to a range of semantic factors but is a true grammatical category-specific deficit located at the lexical level of orthographic processing. Thus, we bring in new evidence in favour of grammatical category representation at a post-semantic level where output modalities are represented separately.
We describe the performance of an aphasic individual who showed a selective impairment affecting ... more We describe the performance of an aphasic individual who showed a selective impairment affecting his comprehension of auditorily presented number words and not other word categories. His difficulty in number word comprehension was restricted to the auditory modality, given that with visual stimuli (written words, Arabic numerals and pictures) his comprehension of number and non-number words was intact. While there have been previous reports of selective difficulty or sparing of number words at the semantic and post-semantic levels, this is the first reported case of a pre-semantic deficit that is specific to the category of number words. This constitutes evidence that lexical semantic distinctions are respected by modality-specific neural mechanisms responsible for providing access to the meanings of words.
We report the naming performance of an early and highly proficient Spanish-Catalan bilingual (JPG... more We report the naming performance of an early and highly proficient Spanish-Catalan bilingual (JPG) suffering from Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA). JPG's performance revealed a grammatical category-specific deficit, with worse performance in naming verbs than nouns. This dissociation was present in oral and written naming and in his two languages, and it seems to stem from damage to, at least, the lexical level. Despite the fact that JPG's performance was qualitatively very similar across languages, his second language seemed to be more affected than his first language. These results indicate that the cortical organization of the two languages of highly proficient bilinguals follow similar organizational principles, one of this principles being grammatical class.
There is a growing body of evidence showing that a word's cognate status is an important dimensio... more There is a growing body of evidence showing that a word's cognate status is an important dimension aVecting the naming performance of bilingual speakers. In a recent article, extended this observation to the naming performance of an aphasic bilingual (DJ). DJ named pictures with cognate names more accurately than pictures with non-cognate names. Furthermore, having named the pictures in Spanish helped the subsequent retrieval (with a delay of one week between the two tests) of the same pictures' names in English, but only for pictures with cognate names. That is, there was a language transfer but only for those translation words that were phonologically similar. In this article we Wrst evaluate the conclusions drawn from these results by Kohnert, and second we discuss the theoretical implications of the facilitatory eVects of cognate words for models of speech production in bilingual speakers.
... Hernández, M., Costa, A., Sebastián‐Gallés, N., Juncadella, M. and Reñé, R. 2007. ... Journal... more ... Hernández, M., Costa, A., Sebastián‐Gallés, N., Juncadella, M. and Reñé, R. 2007. ... Journal of Memory and Language , 33: 600629. [CrossRef], [Web of Science ®], [CSA] View all references; Duyck & Brysbaert, 200823. Duyck, W. and Brysbaert, M. 2008. ...
We report the naming performance of a Spanish patient (AQF) suffering from Primary Progressive Ap... more We report the naming performance of a Spanish patient (AQF) suffering from Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA). AQF's performance revealed a grammatical category-specific deficit, with poorer performance in verb than in noun naming. Furthermore, this dissociation was only present in written naming. Importantly, the patient's dissociation between nouns and verbs was present also when we studied her performance with homonymous words. We argue that this dissociation is not due to a range of semantic factors but is a true grammatical category-specific deficit located at the lexical level of orthographic processing. Thus, we bring in new evidence in favour of grammatical category representation at a post-semantic level where output modalities are represented separately.
We describe the performance of an aphasic individual who showed a selective impairment affecting ... more We describe the performance of an aphasic individual who showed a selective impairment affecting his comprehension of auditorily presented number words and not other word categories. His difficulty in number word comprehension was restricted to the auditory modality, given that with visual stimuli (written words, Arabic numerals and pictures) his comprehension of number and non-number words was intact. While there have been previous reports of selective difficulty or sparing of number words at the semantic and post-semantic levels, this is the first reported case of a pre-semantic deficit that is specific to the category of number words. This constitutes evidence that lexical semantic distinctions are respected by modality-specific neural mechanisms responsible for providing access to the meanings of words.
We report the naming performance of an early and highly proficient Spanish-Catalan bilingual (JPG... more We report the naming performance of an early and highly proficient Spanish-Catalan bilingual (JPG) suffering from Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA). JPG's performance revealed a grammatical category-specific deficit, with worse performance in naming verbs than nouns. This dissociation was present in oral and written naming and in his two languages, and it seems to stem from damage to, at least, the lexical level. Despite the fact that JPG's performance was qualitatively very similar across languages, his second language seemed to be more affected than his first language. These results indicate that the cortical organization of the two languages of highly proficient bilinguals follow similar organizational principles, one of this principles being grammatical class.
There is a growing body of evidence showing that a word's cognate status is an important dimensio... more There is a growing body of evidence showing that a word's cognate status is an important dimension aVecting the naming performance of bilingual speakers. In a recent article, extended this observation to the naming performance of an aphasic bilingual (DJ). DJ named pictures with cognate names more accurately than pictures with non-cognate names. Furthermore, having named the pictures in Spanish helped the subsequent retrieval (with a delay of one week between the two tests) of the same pictures' names in English, but only for pictures with cognate names. That is, there was a language transfer but only for those translation words that were phonologically similar. In this article we Wrst evaluate the conclusions drawn from these results by Kohnert, and second we discuss the theoretical implications of the facilitatory eVects of cognate words for models of speech production in bilingual speakers.
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