@article{WartenburgerHeekerenBurchertetal.2004,
  author    = {Wartenburger, Isabell and Heekeren, Hauke R. and Burchert, Frank and Heinemann, Steffi and De Bleser, Ria and Villringer, Arno},
  title     = {Neural correlates of syntactic transformations},
  issn      = {1065-9471},
  year      = {2004},
  abstract  = {Many agrammatic aphasics have a specific syntactic comprehension deficit involving processing syntactic transformations. It has been proposed that this deficit is due to a dysfunction of Broca's area, an area that is thought to be critical for comprehension of complex transformed sentences. The goal of this study was to investigate the role of Broca's area in processing canonical and non-canonical sentences in healthy subjects. The sentences were presented auditorily and were controlled for task difficulty. Subjects were asked to judge the grammaticality of the sentences while their brain activity was monitored using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging. Processing both kinds of sentences resulted in activation of language-related brain regions. Comparison of non-canonical and canonical sentences showed greater activation in bilateral temporal regions; a greater activation of Broca's area in processing antecedent-gap relations was not found. Moreover, the posterior part of Broca's area was conjointly activated by both sentence conditions. Broca's area is thus involved in general syntactic processing as required by grammaticality judgments and does not seem to have a specific role in processing syntactic transformations. (C) 2004 Wiley-Liss, Inc},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{WartenburgerBurchertHeekerenetal.2003,
  author    = {Wartenburger, Isabell and Burchert, Frank and Heekeren, Hauke R. and De Bleser, Ria and Villringer, Arno},
  title     = {Grammaticality judgments on sentences with and without movement of phrasal constituents : an event-related fMRI study},
  issn      = {0911-6044},
  year      = {2003},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{TsegayeDeBleserIribarren2011,
  author    = {Tsegaye, Mulugeta Tarekegne and De Bleser, Ria and Iribarren, Carolina},
  title     = {The effect of literacy on oral language processing implications for aphasia tests},
  series = {Clinical linguistics \& phonetics},
  volume    = {25},
  journal   = {Clinical linguistics \& phonetics},
  number    = {6-7},
  publisher = {Taylor \& Francis Group},
  address   = {London},
  issn      = {0269-9206},
  doi       = {10.3109/02699206.2011.567348},
  pages     = {628 -- 639},
  year      = {2011},
  abstract  = {Most studies investigating the impact of literacy on oral language processing have shown that literacy provides phonological awareness skills in the processing of oral language. The implications of these results on aphasia tests could be significant and pose questions on the adequacy of such tools for testing non-literate individuals. Aiming at examining the impact of literacy on oral language processing and its implication on aphasia tests, this study tested 12 non-literate and 12 literate individuals with a modified Amharic version of the Bilingual Aphasia Test (Paradis and Amberber, 1991, Bilingual Aphasia Test. Amharic version. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.). The problems of phonological awareness skills in oral language processing in non-literates are substantiated. In addition, compared with literate participants, non-literate individuals demonstrated difficulties in the word/sentence-picture matching tasks. This study has also revealed that the Amharic version of the Bilingual Aphasia Test may be viable for testing Amharic-speaking non-literate individuals with aphasia when modifications are incorporated.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{StadieTabatabaieDeBleseretal.1995,
  author    = {Stadie, Nicole and Tabatabaie, Sia and De Bleser, Ria and Cholewa, J{\"u}rgen},
  title     = {LeMo - an expert-system for the assessment of lexical and morphological impairments in aphasia},
  year      = {1995},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{SpringerBurkDeBleseretal.1995,
  author    = {Springer, Lydia and Burk, F. and De Bleser, Ria and Stadie, Nicole},
  title     = {Oral and written naming in a multilingual aphasic patient},
  year      = {1995},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{SidiropoulosDeBleserAblingeretal.2015,
  author    = {Sidiropoulos, Kyriakos and De Bleser, Ria and Ablinger, Irene and Ackermann, Hermann},
  title     = {The relationship between verbal and nonverbal auditory signal processing in conduction aphasia: behavioral and anatomical evidence for common decoding mechanisms},
  series = {Neurocase : the neural basis of cognition},
  volume    = {21},
  journal   = {Neurocase : the neural basis of cognition},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group},
  address   = {Abingdon},
  issn      = {1355-4794},
  doi       = {10.1080/13554794.2014.902471},
  pages     = {377 -- 393},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {The processing of nonverbal auditory stimuli has not yet been sufficiently investigated in patients with aphasia. On the basis of a duration discrimination task, we examined whether patients with left-sided cerebrovascular lesions were able to perceive time differences in the scale of approximately 150ms. Further linguistic and memory-related tasks were used to characterize more exactly the relationships in the performances between auditory nonverbal task and selective linguistic or mnemonic disturbances. All examined conduction aphasics showed increased thresholds in the duration discrimination task. The low thresholds on this task were in a strong correlative relation to the reduced performances in repetition and working memory task. This was interpreted as an indication of a pronounced disturbance in integrating auditory verbal information into a long-term window (sampling disturbance) resulting in an additional load of working memory. In order to determine the lesion topography of patients with sampling disturbances, the anatomical and psychophysical data were correlated on the basis of a voxelwise statistical approach. It was found that tissue damage extending through the insula, the posterior superior temporal gyrus, and the supramarginal gyrus causes impairments in sequencing of time-sensitive information.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{SchwarzDeBleserPoecketal.1998,
  author    = {Schwarz, M. R. and De Bleser, Ria and Poeck, K. and Weis, J.},
  title     = {A case of primary progressive ahasia : a 14year follow-up study with neuropathological findings},
  year      = {1998},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{SchroederStadiePostleretal.2005,
  author    = {Schr{\"o}der, Astrid and Stadie, Nicole and Postler, Jenny and Lorenz, Antje and Swoboda-Moll, Maria and Burchert, Frank and De Bleser, Ria},
  title     = {Does training-induced improvement of noncanonical sentence production in agrammatic aphasia generalize to comprehension? : a multiple single case study},
  issn      = {0093-934X},
  year      = {2005},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{RauschBurchertDeBleser2005,
  author    = {Rausch, P. and Burchert, Frank and De Bleser, Ria},
  title     = {Parallels in the breakdown of CP and DP-internal movement processes in agrammatism : a preliminary case study},
  issn      = {0093-934X},
  year      = {2005},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{PostlerDeBleserCholewaetal.2003,
  author    = {Postler, Jenny and De Bleser, Ria and Cholewa, J{\"u}rgen and Glauche, V. and Hamzei, F. and Weiller, C.},
  title     = {Neuroimaging the semantic system (s)},
  year      = {2003},
  language  = {en}
}