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Comprehension of Complex Sentences in the Persian-Speaking Patients With Aphasia
INTRODUCTION: To study sentence comprehension in Persian-speaking Patients with Aphasia considering the factors of complexity. METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, the performance of 6 non-fluent aphasic patients were tested and their performance was compared to 15 matched control group. Comprehe...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6712637/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31462975 http://dx.doi.org/10.32598/bcn.9.10.185 |
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author | Shiani, Amir Joghataei, Mohammad Taghi Ashayeri, Hassan Kamali, Mohammad Razavi, Mohammad Reza Yadegari, Fariba |
author_facet | Shiani, Amir Joghataei, Mohammad Taghi Ashayeri, Hassan Kamali, Mohammad Razavi, Mohammad Reza Yadegari, Fariba |
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description | INTRODUCTION: To study sentence comprehension in Persian-speaking Patients with Aphasia considering the factors of complexity. METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, the performance of 6 non-fluent aphasic patients were tested and their performance was compared to 15 matched control group. Comprehension of semantically reversible sentences was assessed using a binary sentence-picture matching task. The stimuli were as follows: clefts; subject clefts and object clefts, also relative clauses; subject relatives and object relatives. All of them were types of movement-derived structures and also simple declarative sentences as the control task. RESULTS: The best performance of aphasic patients were seen in the comprehension of subject clefts, although prior to this result we assumed that simple declarative sentences (in which there is no structural factor of complexity) can be understood easily. They showed the highest difficulty in the comprehension of object relatives. Furthermore, the performance of patients in the comprehension of relative clauses was significantly weaker than understanding the clefts. CONCLUSION: The outcomes of this study suggest that the sentence comprehension deficits of aphasic patients, in contrast to the specific deficit models, may not be related to linguistic disabilities. Moreover, the problems in the comprehension of non-canonical sentences may be related to failure in the allocation of attention. Finally, our results support the claims that neural characterization of the cognitive resources (e.g. working memory) is disrupted in sentence comprehension deficits. |
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spelling | pubmed-67126372019-08-28 Comprehension of Complex Sentences in the Persian-Speaking Patients With Aphasia Shiani, Amir Joghataei, Mohammad Taghi Ashayeri, Hassan Kamali, Mohammad Razavi, Mohammad Reza Yadegari, Fariba Basic Clin Neurosci Research Paper INTRODUCTION: To study sentence comprehension in Persian-speaking Patients with Aphasia considering the factors of complexity. METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, the performance of 6 non-fluent aphasic patients were tested and their performance was compared to 15 matched control group. Comprehension of semantically reversible sentences was assessed using a binary sentence-picture matching task. The stimuli were as follows: clefts; subject clefts and object clefts, also relative clauses; subject relatives and object relatives. All of them were types of movement-derived structures and also simple declarative sentences as the control task. RESULTS: The best performance of aphasic patients were seen in the comprehension of subject clefts, although prior to this result we assumed that simple declarative sentences (in which there is no structural factor of complexity) can be understood easily. They showed the highest difficulty in the comprehension of object relatives. Furthermore, the performance of patients in the comprehension of relative clauses was significantly weaker than understanding the clefts. CONCLUSION: The outcomes of this study suggest that the sentence comprehension deficits of aphasic patients, in contrast to the specific deficit models, may not be related to linguistic disabilities. Moreover, the problems in the comprehension of non-canonical sentences may be related to failure in the allocation of attention. Finally, our results support the claims that neural characterization of the cognitive resources (e.g. working memory) is disrupted in sentence comprehension deficits. Iranian Neuroscience Society 2019 2019-05-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6712637/ /pubmed/31462975 http://dx.doi.org/10.32598/bcn.9.10.185 Text en Copyright© 2019 Iranian Neuroscience Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Paper Shiani, Amir Joghataei, Mohammad Taghi Ashayeri, Hassan Kamali, Mohammad Razavi, Mohammad Reza Yadegari, Fariba Comprehension of Complex Sentences in the Persian-Speaking Patients With Aphasia |
title | Comprehension of Complex Sentences in the Persian-Speaking Patients With Aphasia |
title_full | Comprehension of Complex Sentences in the Persian-Speaking Patients With Aphasia |
title_fullStr | Comprehension of Complex Sentences in the Persian-Speaking Patients With Aphasia |
title_full_unstemmed | Comprehension of Complex Sentences in the Persian-Speaking Patients With Aphasia |
title_short | Comprehension of Complex Sentences in the Persian-Speaking Patients With Aphasia |
title_sort | comprehension of complex sentences in the persian-speaking patients with aphasia |
topic | Research Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6712637/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31462975 http://dx.doi.org/10.32598/bcn.9.10.185 |
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