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ects of verbal working memory de W cits on metaphor comprehension in patients with Parkinson ’ s disease
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Monetta, Laura Pell, Marc D. |
| Copyright Year | 2006 |
| Abstract | This research studied one aspect of pragmatic language processing, the ability to understand metaphorical language, to determine whether patients with Parkinson disease (PD) are impaired for these abilities, and whether cognitive resource limitations/fronto-striatal dysfunction contributes to these deWcits. Seventeen PD participants and healthy controls (HC) completed a series of neuropsychological tests and performed a metaphor comprehension task following the methods of Gernsbacher and colleagues [Gernsbacher, M. A., Keysar, B., Robertson, R. R. W., & Werner, N. K. (2001). The role of suppression and enhancement in understanding metaphors. Journal of Memory and Language, 45, 433–450.] When participants in the PD group were identiWed as “impaired” or “unimpaired” relative to the control group on a measure of verbal working memory span, we found that only PD participants with impaired working memory were simultaneously impaired in the processing of metaphorical language. Based on our Wndings we argue that certain “complex” forms of language processing such as metaphor interpretation are highly dependent on intact fronto-striatal systems for working memory which are frequently, although not always, compromised during the early course of PD. © 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.mcgill.ca/pell_lab/files/pell_lab/monetta__pell_2007_0.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://isiarticles.com/bundles/Article/pre/pdf/31069.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
