Varkanitsa, M;
Kasselimis, D;
Potagas, C;
van de Koot, H;
(2014)
Phonological Working Memory Limitations and Agrammatism: Is There a Causal Relationship between the Two?
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Frontiers in Psychology Conference Abstracts: Academy of Aphasia - 52nd Annual Meeting.
Frontiers Research Foundation: Miami, FL, USA.
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Abstract
Syntactic processing in sentence comprehension requires some form of Working Memory (WM) resources. However, the nature of the relation between WM and sentence comprehension is controversial. One of the questions is whether WM for language is a single resource, or, alternatively, it consists of different components, each entrusted with a different linguistic function (Caplan & Waters, 1999). The aim of the study is to investigate the nature of the relation between WM and sentence comprehension by comparing sentence comprehension abilities with performance on WM tasks of four Greek-speaking patients with Broca’s aphasia. The experimental hypothesis is that patients with different performance patterns in sentence comprehension will present with different verbal WM capacity.
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