TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fyndanis, Valantis
A1  - Lind, Marianne
A1  - Varlokosta, Spyridoula
A1  - Kambanaros, Maria
A1  - Soroli, Efstathia
A1  - Ceder, Klaudia
A1  - Grohmann, Kleanthes K.
A1  - Rofes, Adrià
A1  - Simonsen, Hanne Gram
A1  - Bjekić, Jovana
A1  - Gavarró, Anna
A1  - Kraljević, Jelena Kuvač
A1  - Martínez-Ferreiro, Silvia
A1  - Munarriz, Amaia
A1  - Pourquie, Marie
A1  - Vuksanović, Jasmina
A1  - Zakariás, Lilla
A1  - Howard, David
T1  - Cross-linguistic adaptations of The Comprehensive Aphasia Test
BT  - challenges and solutions
JF  - Clinical linguistics & phonetics
N2  - Comparative research on aphasia and aphasia rehabilitation is challenged by the lack of comparable assessment tools across different languages. In English, a large array of tools is available, while in most other languages, the selection is more limited. Importantly, assessment tools are often simple translations and do not take into consideration specific linguistic and psycholinguistic parameters of the target languages. As a first step in meeting the needs for comparable assessment tools, the Comprehensive Aphasia Test is currently being adapted into a number of languages spoken in Europe. In this article, some key challenges encountered in the adaptation process and the solutions to ensure that the resulting assessment tools are linguistically and culturally equivalent, are proposed. Specifically, we focus on challenges and solutions related to the use of imageability, frequency, word length, spelling-to-sound regularity and sentence length and complexity as underlying properties in the selection of the testing material.
KW  - Aphasia
KW  - assessment
KW  - Comprehensive Aphasia Test (CAT)
KW  - cross-linguistic adaptations
KW  - outcome measures
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2017.1310299
SN  - 0269-9206
SN  - 1464-5076
VL  - 31
IS  - 7-9
SP  - 697
EP  - 710
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Philadelphia
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Creet, Ella
A1  - Morris, Julie
A1  - Howard, David
A1  - Nickels, Lyndsey
T1  - Name it again! investigating the effects of repeated naming attempts in aphasia
JF  - Aphasiology : an international, interdisciplinary journal
KW  - Aphasia
KW  - word retrieval
KW  - naming
KW  - repeated naming
KW  - priming
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2019.1622352
SN  - 0268-7038
SN  - 1464-5041
VL  - 33
IS  - 10
SP  - 1202
EP  - 1226
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Arantzeta, Miren
A1  - Webster, Janet
A1  - Laka, Itziar
A1  - Martinez-Zabaleta, Maite
A1  - Howard, David
T1  - What happens when they think they are right?
BT  - Error awareness analysis of sentence comprehension deficits in aphasia
JF  - Aphasiology : an international, interdisciplinary journal
N2  - Background: Comprehension of non-canonical sentences is frequently characterised by chance level performance in people with aphasia (PWA). Chance level performance has been interpreted as guessing, but online data does not support this rendering. It is still not clear whether the incorrect sentence processing is guided by the compensatory strategies that PWA might employ to overcome linguistic difficulties.Aims: We aim to study to what extent people with non-fluent aphasia are aware of their sentence comprehension deficits.Methods & Procedures: This study combined offline and online data to investigate the effect of word order and error-awareness on sentence comprehension in a group of PWA and non-brain damaged (NBD) participants. The offline tasks involved auditory sentence picture-matching immediately followed by a confidence rating (CR). Participants were asked to judge the perceived correctness of their previous answer. Online data consisted of eye-tracking.Outcomes & Results: Replicating previous findings, PWA had significantly worse comprehension of Theme-Agent order compared to Agent-Theme order sentences. Controls showed ceiling level sentence comprehension. CR was a poor predictor of response accuracy in PWA, but moderate-good in NBD. A total of 6.8% of judgements were classified as guessing by PWA. Post hoc gaze data analysis indicated that CR was a predictor of the fixation pattern during the presentation of the linguistic stimuli.Conclusions: Results suggest that PWA were mostly unaware of their sentence comprehension errors and did not consciously employ strategies to compensate for their difficulties.
KW  - Aphasia
KW  - sentence comprehension
KW  - error awareness
KW  - eye-tracking
KW  - anosognosia
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2017.1423270
SN  - 0268-7038
SN  - 1464-5041
VL  - 32
IS  - 12
SP  - 1418
EP  - 1444
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -