TY  - JOUR
A1  - Pregla, Dorothea
A1  - Lissón Hernández, Paula J.
A1  - Vasishth, Shravan
A1  - Burchert, Frank
A1  - Stadie, Nicole
T1  - Variability in sentence comprehension in aphasia in German
T2  - Brain & language : a journal of the neurobiology of language
N2  - An important aspect of aphasia is the observation of behavioral variability between and within individual participants. Our study addresses variability in sentence comprehension in German, by testing 21 individuals with aphasia and a control group and involving (a) several constructions (declarative sentences, relative clauses and control structures with an overt pronoun or PRO), (b) three response tasks (object manipulation, sentence-picture matching with/without self-paced listening), and (c) two test phases (to investigate test-retest performance). With this systematic, large-scale study we gained insights into variability in sentence comprehension. We found that the size of syntactic effects varied both in aphasia and in control participants. Whereas variability in control participants led to systematic changes, variability in individuals with aphasia was unsystematic across test phases or response tasks. The persistent occurrence of canonicity and interference effects across response tasks and test phases, however, shows that the performance is systematically influenced by syntactic complexity.
KW  - Aphasia
KW  - Sentence Comprehension
KW  - Variability
KW  - Test-retest reliability
KW  - Task demands
KW  - Canonicity and interference effects
KW  - Object manipulation
KW  - Sentence-picture matching
KW  - Self-paced listening
KW  - Adaptation
Y1  - 2021
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/56656
SN  - 0093-934X
SN  - 1090-2155
VL  - 222
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -