The Relative Role of Semantic and Sublexical Processes in Reading, Writing and Repetition: Evidence from a Follow-Up Study
The evolution in time of a number of language tasks in a longitudinal study of a 61-year-old aphasic patient is described. The patient, examined twice, in a 10 month follow-up, showed a dissociation between preserved reading with respect to impaired other modalities as well as a qualitative change i...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Wiley
2010-01-01
|
| Series: | Behavioural Neurology |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/BEN-2009-0255 |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| _version_ | 1850171005120544768 |
|---|---|
| author | Flavia Mattioli |
| author_facet | Flavia Mattioli |
| author_sort | Flavia Mattioli |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | The evolution in time of a number of language tasks in a longitudinal study of a 61-year-old aphasic patient is described. The patient, examined twice, in a 10 month follow-up, showed a dissociation between preserved reading with respect to impaired other modalities as well as a qualitative change in errors' type. A reduction of neologisms and phonologically based errors, with a concurrent increase of semantic paraphasias in naming and repetition, as well as an amelioration in reading, with a reduction of stress assignment errors was exhibited at the follow-up. The results are interpreted by postulating an improved performance of the phonological output processes, allowing non-phonologically based errors to emerge, thus revealing the underlying semantic damage. The Summation Hypothesis [14] seems a general framework better interpreting these findings, more than highly specialized production models, which could explain separately only different modalities’ impairments. |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj-art-ac08c2e447d3416cb4c76d3ac525923e |
| institution | OA Journals |
| issn | 0953-4180 1875-8584 |
| language | English |
| publishDate | 2010-01-01 |
| publisher | Wiley |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Behavioural Neurology |
| spelling | doaj-art-ac08c2e447d3416cb4c76d3ac525923e2025-08-20T02:20:22ZengWileyBehavioural Neurology0953-41801875-85842010-01-01221-2253410.3233/BEN-2009-0255The Relative Role of Semantic and Sublexical Processes in Reading, Writing and Repetition: Evidence from a Follow-Up StudyFlavia Mattioli0Neuropsychological Unit, Spedali Civili, Brescia, ItalyThe evolution in time of a number of language tasks in a longitudinal study of a 61-year-old aphasic patient is described. The patient, examined twice, in a 10 month follow-up, showed a dissociation between preserved reading with respect to impaired other modalities as well as a qualitative change in errors' type. A reduction of neologisms and phonologically based errors, with a concurrent increase of semantic paraphasias in naming and repetition, as well as an amelioration in reading, with a reduction of stress assignment errors was exhibited at the follow-up. The results are interpreted by postulating an improved performance of the phonological output processes, allowing non-phonologically based errors to emerge, thus revealing the underlying semantic damage. The Summation Hypothesis [14] seems a general framework better interpreting these findings, more than highly specialized production models, which could explain separately only different modalities’ impairments.http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/BEN-2009-0255 |
| spellingShingle | Flavia Mattioli The Relative Role of Semantic and Sublexical Processes in Reading, Writing and Repetition: Evidence from a Follow-Up Study Behavioural Neurology |
| title | The Relative Role of Semantic and Sublexical Processes in Reading, Writing and Repetition: Evidence from a Follow-Up Study |
| title_full | The Relative Role of Semantic and Sublexical Processes in Reading, Writing and Repetition: Evidence from a Follow-Up Study |
| title_fullStr | The Relative Role of Semantic and Sublexical Processes in Reading, Writing and Repetition: Evidence from a Follow-Up Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Relative Role of Semantic and Sublexical Processes in Reading, Writing and Repetition: Evidence from a Follow-Up Study |
| title_short | The Relative Role of Semantic and Sublexical Processes in Reading, Writing and Repetition: Evidence from a Follow-Up Study |
| title_sort | relative role of semantic and sublexical processes in reading writing and repetition evidence from a follow up study |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/BEN-2009-0255 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT flaviamattioli therelativeroleofsemanticandsublexicalprocessesinreadingwritingandrepetitionevidencefromafollowupstudy AT flaviamattioli relativeroleofsemanticandsublexicalprocessesinreadingwritingandrepetitionevidencefromafollowupstudy |