TY - JOUR A1 - Schröder, Astrid A1 - Stadie, Nicole A1 - Postler, Jenny A1 - Lorenz, Antje A1 - Swoboda-Moll, Maria A1 - Burchert, Frank A1 - De Bleser, Ria T1 - Does training-induced improvement of noncanonical sentence production in agrammatic aphasia generalize to comprehension? : a multiple single case study Y1 - 2005 SN - 0093-934X ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schröder, Astrid A1 - Burchert, Frank A1 - Stadie, Nicole T1 - Training-induced improvement of noncanonical sentence production does not generalize to comprehension: evidence for modality-specific processes JF - Cognitive neuropsychology N2 - The presence or absence of generalization after treatment can provide important insights into the functional relationship between cognitive processes. The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between the cognitive processes that underlie sentence comprehension and production in aphasia. Using data from seven participants who took part in a case-series intervention study that focused on noncanonical sentence production [Stadie et al. (2008). Unambiguous generalization effects after treatment of noncanonical sentence production in German agrammatism. Brain and Language, 104, 211-229], we identified patterns of impairments and generalization effects for the two modalities. Results showed (a) dissociations between sentence structures and modalities before treatment, (b) an absence of cross-modal generalization from production to comprehension after treatment, and (c), a co-occurrence of spared comprehension before treatment and generalization across sentence structures within production after treatment. These findings are in line with the assumption of modality-specific, but interacting, cognitive processes in sentence comprehension and production. More specifically, this interaction is assumed to be unidirectional, allowing treatment-induced improvements in production to be supported by preserved comprehension. KW - syntactic processing of noncanonical sentences KW - sentence production KW - sentence comprehension KW - cross-modal generalization KW - aphasia treatment Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2014.968535 SN - 0264-3294 SN - 1464-0627 VL - 32 IS - 3-4 SP - 195 EP - 220 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - 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 JF - 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 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bl.2021.105008 SN - 0093-934X SN - 1090-2155 VL - 222 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER -