PRELIMINARY PROGRAM — ACADEMY OF APHASIA

SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO — NOVEMBER 1-3, 1998

DAY 1

10:00

1.1 POSTER SESSION - SYNTAX AND GRAMMATICAL PROCESSING

1-The role of cortical and subcortical lesions in language comprehension - Friederici et al

2-Quantitative production analysis: Norming and reliability data - Rochon et al

3-Hemispheric specialization for sentence processing during intracarotid amobarbital - DellaPietra et al

4-Dopamine supports sentence comprehension in Parkinson's disease - Morris et al

5-Long distance number agreement in Alzheimer’s disease - Almor et al

6-Interactions between mind and language - Funnell

7-Relation between case and verbs in agrammatic speech - Ruigendijk et al

8-Innovations in aphasia testing - Goodglass et al

9-Comprehension and production of nouns and verbs in agrammatism - Kim & Thompson

10-Elicitation of morphological forms in nonfluent aphasia - Ni et al

11-Productive syntax in adults with Huntington's or Parkinson's disease - Murray et al

12-Single dependency object extraction in agrammatism - Beretta & Munn

13-Working memory and metacognition in sentence comprehension of severely head injured children - Hanten et al

14-Time-course analysis of auditory and visual sentence comprehension in an aphasic patient - Kotz et al

15-Processing relationships between the comprehension of syntax and lexical-semantics in aphasia - Odell & McNeil

16-Disorders of morphosyntactic comprehension in aphasia in Indonesian - Postman & Martohardjono

17-Verb movement in agrammatic production - Bastiaanse & Maas

12:30

1.2 PLATFORM SESSION - SYNTAX AND GRAMMATICAL PROCESSING (Chair — Hagoort)

1-Simulating deficits in interpretation of complex sentences in normals under adverse processing conditions - Dick et al

2-Nature of aberrant understanding and processing of pro-forms - Love et al

3-Sensitivity to grammaticality in Chinese aphasics - Lu et al

4-Subject-verb agreement construction in agrammatic aphasia - Hartsuiker et al

5-Semantic combinatorial operations in Broca's and Wernicke's aphasia - Pinango & Zurif

3:00

1.3 SYMPOSIUM — WHAT DOES BROCA’S AREA REALLY DO? (Dronkers)

1-Introduction -- Dronkers

2-Anatomy of Broca’s area -- Zilles

3-Syntactic processing? — Caplan & Waters

4-Phonologic processing? -- Small

5-Semantic processing? -- Gabrielli

6-Short-term memory? -- Smith

5:30

BUSINESS MEETING

DAY 2

8:30

2.1 PLATFORM SESSION — SEMANTIC MEMORY AND SEMANTIC PROCESSING (Chair — Tyler)

1-Knowing "how" vs "what for" - Buxbaum et al

2-Summation of semantic priming effects in aphasia - Milberg et al

3-When ottoman is easier than chair -- an inverse frequency effect in jargon aphasia - Marshall et al

4-Category coordinate errors in a dynamic system - Devlin et al

5-Hemispheric differences in the processing of living and non-living things - Tyler et al

11:00

2.2 POSTER SESSION — SEMANTIC MEMORY AND SEMANTIC PROCESSING

1-Is it dove or dove?: Alzheimer’s patients' ability to use context and frequency to resolve heteronym ambiguities - Dagerman et al

2-More difficult does not necessarily mean more brain: fMRI correlates of distinct levels of difficulty for phonological and semantic processing of words in normal subjects - Walter et al

3-Relationship between nouns and verbs in a category-specific deficit for living things - Moss et al

4-Code-specific relation between short-term memory and long-term learning - Freedman & Martin

5-Lexical-semantic retention and language production - Martin et al

6-Implicit interhemispheric lexicality priming in lateralized lexical decision - Zaidel et al

7-Classification of living and non-living items in aphasia - Bolla et al

8-Repetition deafness in patients with Alzheimer's disease - Saffran et al

9-What determines naming success in dementia - Harley et al

10-Selective conceptual deficit for people’s names: An impairment of domain-specific knowledge? - Miceli et al

11-Role of basal ganglia in lexical and semantic verbal fluency - Troster et al

12-Influence of colour on naming living and non-living items in aphasia - Dalla Barba et al

13-Influence of semantic and perceptual encoding on recognition memory in aphasia - Pellegrino et al

14-Definitions in dementia - Astell & Harley

15-Two cases of progressive anomia: A clinical-MRI study - Papagno et al

16-Time course of lexical activation of polysemous word meanings in young and elderly individuals - Kiran & Thompson

17-Lexical development after traumatic brain injury in a toddler - Trudeau et al

 

12:30

2.3 LUNCH SPEAKER — Myrna Schwartz

Psycholinguistic Theory and Aphasia Therapy: When Worlds Collide

2:00

2.4 SYMPOSIUM — HONORING HAROLD GOODGLASS (Chair - Kaplan)

1- Object Naming as a Special Case of Word Finding in Normal and Aphasic Subjects - Wingfield

2- Child Language and Aphasia - Gleason

3-Semantics - Baker

4- Psycholinguistic Approaches to Aphasia: From Sound to Meaning - Blumstein

3:15

2.5 SYMPOSIUM - Activating Words in the Brain: Integrating Neuropsychology and Psycholinguistics (Baynes & Swaab)

1-Introduction: Activating words in the brain: Integrating neuropsychology and psycholinguistics -Baynes & Swaab

2-Facilitation of word and picture recognition in focal lesions - Baynes et al

3-Semantic priming in Alzheimer’s disease: Evidence for preservation of semantic memory - Ober & Shenaut

4-Event-related potential studies of the right hemisphere in word processing: Semantic distance and imageability - Swaab et al

5-Left temporo-parietal lesions impair repetition priming for non-words, but not words - Swick

DAY 3

8:30

3.1 PLATFORM SESSION — READING AND WRITING (Chair — Boatman)

1-Reading in dementia - Noble et al

2-Letter-by-letter lexical access without semantics or specialized letter name phonology - Greenwald & Berndt

3-Indexing reading comprehension via eye movements in adults with aphasia - Hallowell & Katz

4-Structure and texture in graphemic representations - Rapp et al

10:30

3.2 POSTER SESSION - READING, WRITING, AND CALCULATIONS; AND THERAPY

1-Deep dysgraphia in Italian - Cappa et al

2-Neglect dyslexia due to parietal hypoperfusion reversed by endarterectomy - Hillis

3-Problem-solving in acquired alexia: How do you spell relief? - Beeson

4-Change in reading ability and color naming related to progressive cortical atrophy - Wingfield et al

5-Reading abilities in allographic agraphia - Semenza et al

6-Assembling numerals in the lexicon - Mondini et al

7-Faciliating sentence planning in non-fluent aphasia - Marin & Schwartz

8-Gestural facilitation of noun and verb retrieval in aphasia - Pashek et al

9-Attention-independent enhancement of left visual field performance in the recovery from aphasia - Ansaldo et al

10-Intelligibility across speech modes - van Lancker et al

11-Category selection in non-fluent aphasia: People, actions, objects - Nicholas & Baker

12-Category selection in non-fluent aphasia: effect of semantic relatedness - Baker & Nicholas

13-Accessing the phonological output lexicon: Generalized responding in a patient with lexical form dysnomia - Doyle et al

14-Reorganization approach to treating phonological alexia - Friedman et al

11:45

3.3 PLATFORM SESSION — THERAPY (Chair — McNeil)

1-Competence versus performance in agrammatic production - Linebarger et al

2-Markedness and syllable structure in word production - Carter et al

3-Investigations of the sentence-query approach to mapping therapy - Fink et al

4-Functional categories in agrammatic production: Evidence for access to tense projections - Boser & Weinrich

2:00

3.4 POSTER SESSION - PHONOLOGY, SPEECH, AND DISCOURSE

1-Role of feature markedness in accounting for consonant substitution errors in fluent aphasia - Kohn et al

2-Implementation of prosodic cues in the resolution of minimal attachment ambiguities following brain damage - Pell et al

3-Effects of acoustic degradation and semantic context on lexical access: Implications for aphasic deficits - Utman & Bates

4-Three abnormal features of aphasic phonological errors - Wilshire

5-Singletons and clusters in onsets and codas: The performance of phonemically and phonetically impaired aphasics on a repetition task - den Ouden & Bastiaanse

6-Relationship between input and output phonology - Martin et al

7-Predicting speech rate in normal and ataxic speakers from functional imaging data - Sidtis et al

8-Verbal short-term memory and repetition in aphasia - Cappa & Pasquali

9-Verbal short-term memory in an aphemic patient - Lindfield et al

10-Discourse production in African-Americans with aphasia - Ulatowska et al

3:15

3.5 PLATFORM SESSION — PHONOLOGY (Chair — Gandour)

1-Arabic consonantal root extraction in a deep dyslexic patient - Prunet et al

2-Contribution of working memory to perception of prosody in PD - Breitenstein et al

3-The effects of phonology and orthography on auditory lexical access as a function of interstimulus interval - Baum & Leonard

4-Neural basis of phonologic processing: The role of segmentation - Burton et al