Language changes in Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review of verb processing

E Williams, M McAuliffe, C Theys - Brain and Language, 2021 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) results in language impairments and higher-level communication
problems. Research into the language of people with AD (pwAD) has mainly focused on …

Mirror neurons and their relationship with neurodegenerative disorders

E Farina, F Borgnis, T Pozzo - Journal of Neuroscience …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The finding of mirror neurons (MNs) has provided a biological substrate to a new concept of
cognition, relating data on actions and perceptions not only to integrate perception in action …

Lexical-semantic properties of verbs and nouns used in conversation by people with Alzheimer's disease

E Williams, C Theys, M McAuliffe - PLoS One, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is accompanied by language impairments and communicative
breakdowns. Research into language processing by people with AD (pwAD) has focused …

Syntactic and lexical context of pauses and hesitations in the discourse of Alzheimer patients and healthy elderly subjects

F Gayraud, HR Lee… - Clinical linguistics & …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Psycholinguistic studies dealing with Alzheimer's disease (AD) commonly consider verbal
aspects of language. In this article, we investigated both verbal and non-verbal aspects of …

Action naming is impaired in Parkinson disease patients

J Rodríguez-Ferreiro, M Menéndez, R Ribacoba… - Neuropsychologia, 2009 - Elsevier
In order to explore the possible contribution of the motor system to the representation of
verbs, we studied the relative preservation of the capacity of Parkinson disease patients to …

Neural representation of word categories is distinct in the temporal lobe: An activation likelihood analysis

Y Faroqi‐Shah, R Sebastian… - Human brain …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The distinction between nouns and verbs is a language universal. Yet, functional
neuroimaging studies comparing noun and verb processing have yielded inconsistent …

Quantitative and qualitative analysis of verb fluency performance in individuals with probable Alzheimer's disease and healthy older adults

EJ Paek, LL Murray - American journal of speech-language …, 2021 - pubs.asha.org
Purpose To date, verb fluency tasks have been mainly analyzed quantitatively for individuals
with dementia. Qualitative analysis, however, such as examining the semantic and …

Impaired word recognition in Alzheimer's disease: The role of age of acquisition

F Cuetos, E Herrera, AW Ellis - Neuropsychologia, 2010 - Elsevier
Studies of word production in patients with Alzheimer's disease have identified the age of
acquisition of words as an important predictor of retention or loss, with early acquired words …

Effect of verb argument structure on picture naming in children with and without specific language impairment (SLI)

L Andreu, M Sanz‐Torrent, LB Legaz… - … Journal of Language …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Background: This study investigated verb argument structure effects in children with specific
language impairment (SLI). Aims: A picture‐naming paradigm was used to compare the …

[PDF][PDF] Lexical selection in language production

GM Oppenheim - 2024 - files.osf.io
Abstract Language production models typically characterize lexical selection as choosing
the single best word to describe a concept, using competitionbased algorithms to implement …