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The effects of prosody on sentence comprehension: evidence from a neurotypical control group and seven cases of chronic stroke

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: Both prosody and sentence structure (e.g., canonical versus non-canonical) affect sentence comprehension. However, few previous studies have examined a possible interaction between prosody and sentence structure. In adult controls we found a significant interaction: typical sentence prosody, versus list prosody, facilitated comprehension of only some sentence structures. In seven stroke patients, impaired attentional control was related to impaired comprehension with sentence prosody but not list prosody; impaired working memory was related to impaired comprehension with list prosody, but not sentence prosody. Thus, non-canonical sentence comprehension impairments in stroke patients may be modulated by prosody, based on a patient's cognitive abilities.

Source: Neurocase

DOI: 10.1080/13554794.2019.1630447

Authors: Arianna N. LaCroix, Nicole Blumenstein, Chloe Houlihan, Corianne Rogalsky

Institutions: Midwestern University, Arizona State University

Language: English

Topic: Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience

Field: Neuroscience

Domain: Life Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: American Heart Association, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders