Academy of Aphasia 2001

39th Annual Meeting

October, 21 - 23, 2001

Boulder, Colorado USA

Complete Program

DRAFT OF WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8th, 2001

 

SUNDAY

21 OCTOBER 2001

MEETING DAY #1

SUNDAY

8 AM - 9 AM

REGISTRATION

SUNDAY

9 AM - 11 AM

SYMPOSIUM #1

Cognitive Abilities, Language Processing, and Aphasia Rehabilitation: Putting Language Deficits and Language Retraining in Cognitive Context

Chair, Thomas H. Carr, Michigan State University

Cognitive abilities, language processing, and aphasia rehabilitation: Putting language deficits and language retraining in cognitive context

Thomas H. Carr, Michigan State University

Differential contributions of cognitive abilities to success in skill-based versus context-based aphasia treatment

Jacqueline J. Hinckley, University of South Florida, and Thomas H. Carr, Michigan State University

Towards a Cognitive Science Foundation for Rehabilitation Practice

Susan Fitzpatrick, James McDonnell Foundation

Perceptual learning of spoken language: Cognitive mechanisms and implications for aphasia recovery.

Howard Nusbaum and Steven Small, The University of Chicago

Aphasia and Nonlinguistic Aspects of Cognition

Nancy Helm-Estabrooks, Harold Goodglass Aphasia Research Center

SUNDAY

11 AM - 1 PM

LUNCH BREAK

SUNDAY

1 PM - 2:45 PM

PLATFORM SESSION #1

Language Processing in Parkinson's Disease

Chair, Beverly Wulfeck, San Diego State University

The Neural Basis for Sentence Comprehension Difficulty in Parkinson's Disease

Chris DeVita, Ayanna Cooke, Christine Lee, John Detre, David Alsop, James Gee, Willis Chen, Matthew Stern, Howard Hurtig, Murray Grossman, University of Pennsylvania

Sentence Comprehension and Information Processing in Parkinson's Disease

Christine Lee1, Murray Grossman1, Edgar Zurif2,3, Penny Prather2,3,

Julia Kalmanson1, Matthew B. Stern1, and Howard I. Hurtig1, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine1, Brandeis University2, Harold Goodglass Aphasia Research Center3

Selective vulnerability of early and late syntactic processes in Parkinson patients: ERP evidence

Angela D. Friederici, Sonja A. Kotz, Katja Werheid, Grit Hein, and D. Yves von Cramon, Max-Planck-Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience

Effects of early Parkinson's disease on emotional perceptual processing

across nonverbal channels

Marc D. Pell, McGill University, and Carol L. Leonard, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care

SUNDAY

2:45 PM - 3:30 PM

AFTERNOON BREAK

SUNDAY

3:30 PM - 5:15 PM

PLATFORM SESSION #2

The Lexicon

Chair, Carlo Semenza, University of Trieste

Phonological Neighbourhood Effects: Evidence from Aphasia and Connectionist Modelling

Jean K. Gordon and Gary S. Dell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Processing of verb-argument structure and subcategorization information in brain-damaged patients: Event-related potential evidence

Sonja A. Kotz, S.A.1, Stefan Frisch2 and Angela D. Friederici 1, 1Max-Planck-Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2University of Potsdam

Effects of Lexical Competition and Phonetic Degradation on Lexical Processing in Aphasia

Cara Misiurski1, Daniel Berman1, Jesse Rissman1, and Sheila E. Blumstein1,2, Brown University1 and VA Medical Center, Boston2

Typicality of Category Exemplars in Aphasia: Evidence from Reaction Time and Treatment Data

Swathi Kiran and Cynthia K. Thompson, Northwestern University

SUNDAY

5:30 PM - 7 PM

RECEPTION

MONDAY

22 OCTOBER 2001

MEETING DAY #2

MONDAY

8 AM - 10 AM

POSTER SESSION #1

A Selective Impairment of Inter-Hemispheric Communication

Uyen T. Le, Brian I. Glucroft, Argye B. Hillis, and Michael McCloskey, Johns Hopkins University

SK - a Case of Pure Word Deafness due to Unilateral Left Hemisphere Lesion

Almut Engelien, Cornell University, and Walter Huber, Technical University of Aachen

Preserved formulaic expressions in a case of transcortical sensory aphasia compared to incidence in normal everyday speech

Diana Van Lancker , New York University

Preserved picture naming inspite of impaired semantic comprehension : a case study

Helgard Kremin, Valérie Hahn-Barma, Elodie Guichart-Gomez, and Bruno Dubois, Hôpital La Salpêtrière

Lexeme interference: A case of context-sensitive naming

Catherine Hodgson and Myrna F. Schwartz, Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute

Rehabilitating anomia: A case study

Silvia Sbisà, Jessica D'Andrea, Carlo Semenza, and Patrizia Tabossi, University of Trieste

Severe Auditory Comprehension Impairment with No Lesion of Wernicke's Area

Lisa Tabor Connor, Nancy Helm-Estabrooks, Carole L. Palumbo, Harold Goodglass Aphasia Research Center

Sparing of syntactic comprehension with destruction of Broca's and Wernicke's areas: Two cases

Weijia Ni*,‡,†, Donald Shankweiler*,†, Laura Conway-Palumbo*, Robert Fulbright‡, and Katherine Harris§,*Haskins Laboratories, †University of Connecticut, ‡Yale University School of Medicine, and §City University of New York

The Original and Revised California Verbal Learning Tests: Comparing Norms for Right Hemisphere Stroke Patients

Anita S. Halper and Leora R. Cherney, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

Speech enhances motor responses in both hands

Agnes Flöel, Caterina Breitenstein, and Stefan Knecht, University of Münster

Divided Attention Impedes Suppression by Right-Brain-Damaged and Non-Brain-Damaged Adults

Connie A. Tompkins1, Margaret T. Lehman-Blake2, Annette Baumgaertner3, Wiltrud Fassbinder1, 1University of Pittsburgh, 2Syracuse University, 3University of Hamburg

Context use by right-hemisphere-damaged individuals under conditions of focused and divided attention: Preliminary findings

Carol L. Leonard, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, and Marc D. Pell, McGill University

Accounting for verbal communication impairments among brain damaged individuals: the challenge of evaluating cognitive resource sharing.

Laura Monetta and Yves Joanette, Institute Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal

Is Cognition Intact in Patients with Aphasia?

Juliana V. Baldo, Joseph T. Elder, Jary Larsen, Nina F. Dronkers, Brenda Redfern, and Carl Ludy, VA Northern California Health Care System, Martinez

 Influences of EMA receiver coils on speech production by normal and

aphasic talkers

William F. Katz, Sneha V. Bharadwaj, Gretchen J. Gabbert, and Nicole Rush, The University of Texas at Dallas

The effect of speaking rate manipulation on phonological encoding

Tepanta R. D. Fossett, Malcolm R. McNeil, and Sheila R. Pratt, University of Pittsburgh

Word order and finiteness in Dutch and English Broca's and Wernicke's aphasia

Roelien Bastiaanse, University of Groningen, and Susan Edwards, The University of Reading

The production of grammatical morphemes of Cantonese aphasic patients

Sam-Po Law and Katherine Cheng Man-yee, University of Hong Kong

Basic syntax and morphology in German: A PET study

Francesca Longoni, Thomas Günther, Osama Sabri, Laszlo Sturz, Keyvan Setani, Udalrich Büll, Walter Huber, University of Technology, Aachen

The interplay between morphological structure and grammatical class in lexical representation and access: Evidence from aphasics' performance in a highly inflected language

Kyrana Tsapkini and Gonia Jarema, Université de Montréal , and Eva Kehayia, McGill University

Processing of Aspectual Verbal Forms in Bulgarian Language-impaired Patients

Rossitza Nikolova and Gonia Jarema, Université de Montréal

Production of double-stressed words by left- and right-hemisphere-damaged patients

Shari R. Baum, McGill University, and Jack Gandour, Purdue University

Determiner Selection and Word Stress Assignment in a Case of Severe Fluent Aphasia

Costanza Papagno, Università di Palermo, and Alfonso Caramazza, Harvard University

MONDAY

10 AM - 10:45 AM

SPECIAL SESSION

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

Judith Cooper, NIDCD, NIH

Michael Weinrich, NCMRR, NICHD, NIH

Susan Fitzpatrick, James S. McDonnell Foundation

Chair, Steven L. Small, The University of Chicago

MONDAY

10:45 AM - 11 AM

MORNING BREAK

MONDAY

11 AM - 12:45 PM

SYMPOSIUM #2

The Role of Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Aphasia Research

Chair, Argye Hillis, Johns Hopkins University

The Role of Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Aphasia Research

Argye Hillis, Johns Hopkins University

Diffusion Weighted Imaging and Gadolinium Perfusion Imaging for Identifying Regions of Damage of Tissue Dysfunction Associated with Specific Lexical Deficits

Argye Hillis; Elizabeth Tuffiash, Robert Wityk, Norman Beauchamp, Barry Gordon, and Peter Barker, Johns Hopkins University

Perfusion fMRI using Arterial Spin Labelling in Alzheimer's Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia: Correlations with Language

Murray Grossman, David Alsop, and John Detre, University of Pennsylvania

Preserved repetition in a patient with MR Diffusion Tensor Imaging documented arcuate fasciculus lesion

Ola A. Selnes, Susumo Mori, Peter B. Barker, Argye E. Hillis, Peter C. M. van Zijl, Johns Hopkins University

MONDAY

12:45 PM - 3:45 PM

ACADEMY LUNCHEON

Luncheon Speaker: Gary W. Van Hoesen, University of Iowa

MONDAY

3:45 PM - 5:45 PM

PLATFORM SESSION #3

Agrammatism

Chair, Nina Dronkers, VA Northern California Health Care System, Martinez

Object movement in agrammatic aphasia. A syntactic or a pragmatic limitation?

Joukje Koekkoek, Rehabilitation Center Het Roessingh, and Roelien Bastiaanse and Ron van Zonneveld, University of Groningen

Nonfluency and Speech Monitoring in Broca's aphasia

Claudy Oomen and Albert Postma, Utrecht University, and Herman Kolk, Nijmegen University

Adaptive processes in syntactically reduced speech of Broca's aphasics and normal speakers

Esterella de Roo*, Herman Kolk** and Ben Hofstede**, *University of Leiden and **University of Nijmegen

The neural architecture of syntactic parsing and encoding

P. Indefrey, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

Reading Morphologically Complex Words in Agrammatic Aphasia

Pamela J. Mathews and Loraine K. Obler, City University of New York

MONDAY

6 PM - 7 PM

BUSINESS MEETING

ACADEMY OF APHASIA

TUESDAY

23 OCTOBER 2001

MEETING DAY #3

TUESDAY

8 AM - 10 AM

POSTER SESSION #2

The Information Structure of the Aphasic and Child Utterances

Sergey Avrutin, Utrecht University

Deficits in Combinatorial Thematics in Sentence Processing in Broca's and Wernicke's Aphasia

Hiroko Nakano and Sheila Blumstein, Brown University

Processing the component parts of active and passive sentences: Why are passives hard?

Elizabeth Bates, Frederic Dick, Suzanne Moineau, and LaRae Miller, University of California, San Diego, and Carl Ludy and Nina Dronkers, Martinez VA Hospital

Comprehension of semantically-reversible sentences: Multiple dissociations

Anne N. Haendiges and Rita Sloan Berndt, University of Maryland School of Medicine

Do subjects adapt to complexity in language? A study of language instability

Amy E. Ramage, Audrey L. Holland, and Carol A. Boliek, University of Arizona

Multiple patterns of writing disorders in dementia of the Alzheimer's type

Claudio Luzzatti*, Marcella Laiacona#, Daniela Agazzi*, *Università di Milano-Bicocca and #Centro Medico di Veruno

Verb Deficits in Alzheimer's Disease and Agrammatism: Semantic versus Syntactic Impairments

Mikyong Kim and Cynthia K. Thompson, Northwestern University

Categorization of Novel Animals in Alzheimer's Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia

Phyllis Koenig,1 Edward E. Smith,2 Peachie Moore,1 Kari Dennis1, Murray Grossman1,1University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and 2University of Michigan

On-line Reference Assignment in Younger Adults, Older Adults, and Patients

with Alzheimer's Disease

Karen L. Marblestone, Amit Almor, Elaine. S. Andersen, Daniel Kempler, Maryellen C. MacDonald, University of Southern California

Can a patient with phonologic alexia learn to read "much" from "mud pies"?

Rhonda B. Friedman, Diane M. Sample, Susan Nitzberg Lott, and Robyn T. Oliver, Georgetown University Medical Center

Verb production in fluent aphasia

Clare McCann and Susan Edwards, The University of Reading

Word meaning activation in sentence contexts in Broca's aphasia: Toward a resolution of competing views

Annette Baumgaertner, University of Hamburg, and Connie A. Tompkins, University of Pittsburgh

Differential effects of contextual priming on word retrieval impairments in aphasia.

Nadine Martin1,2, Ruth Fink2, Matti Laine3, Jennifer Ayala1, 1Temple University, 2Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, 3Abo Akademi University, Abo, Finland

What Makes a Good Neighbor? Evidence from Malapropisms

Matthew Goldrick and Brenda Rapp, Johns Hopkins University

Linguistic and non-linguistic auditory processing in aphasia

Ayse Pinar Saygin, Frederic Dick, and Elizabeth Bates, University of California, San Diego

A Progressive Breakdown of Semantic Knowledge: Category or Attribute Specificity?

Mondini, S.1, Borgo, F.2, Bisiacchi, P.1, Semenza, C.2, Cotticelli, B.3, 1University of Padova, 2University of Trieste, 3Istituto Policlinico San Donato Milanese

Aphasics' Access to Nouns and Verbs: Discourse versus Confrontation Naming

Harold Goodglass, Arthur Wingfield,, Mary R. Hyde, Jean Berko Gleason, and Susan E. Ward, Harold Goodglass Aphasia Research Center

Effects of single pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation during a picture-word-verification task

Caterina Breitenstein, Bianca Dräger, Agnes Flöel, and Stefan Knecht, University of Münster

Accelerated verbal processing by regional neural facilitation: A transcranial magnetic stimulation study in a patient with Broca's aphasia

Stefan Knecht, Agnes Flöel, Bianca Dräger, Andreas Frank, and Caterina Breitenstein, University of Münster

Effects of Unilateral and Bilateral Intralaminar Thalamic Stimulation on Linguistic Processing

Subhash C. Bhatnagar, Marquette University, and George Mandybur, University of Mississippi Medical CenterAbstract

Stimulation-Evoked Dysfluency During Cortical Mapping

Subhash C. Bhatnagar1, George Mandybur2, Franklin H. Silverman1, and Hugh H. Buckingham3, 1Marquette University, 2University of Mississippi Medical Center, 3Louisiana State University

TUESDAY

10 AM - 10:15 AM

MORNING BREAK

TUESDAY

10:15 AM - 12:00 NOON

PLATFORM SESSION #4

Time Course of Language Processing

Chair, Roelien Bastiaanse, University of Groningen

Time Course of Semantic and Phonological Activation in Aphasic Individuals

Naomi Hashimoto and Cynthia K. Thompson, Northwestern University

Short-term retention of sentence meaning increases long-range, low-frequency neural synchrony

Henk J. Haarmann, Katherine A. Cameron, Daniel S. Ruchkin, University of Maryland

Pronominals in Broca's aphasia comprehension: The consequences of syntactic delay

Maria M. Piñango and Petra Burkhardt, Yale University

Aphasia and the time-course of processing long distance dependencies

Tracy Love and  David Swinney, University of California, San Diego, and Edgar Zurif , Brandeis University

TUESDAY

12:00 NOON - 1:30 PM

LUNCH BREAK

TUESDAY

1:30 PM - 3:15 PM

PLATFORM SESSION #5

Language Processing in Aging and Dementia

Chair, Marc Pell, McGill University

Sentence Comprehension in Frontotemporal Dementia Subgroups: Evidence from Neuroimaging

Ayanna Cooke, Christian DeVita, Willis Chen, David Alsop, James Gee, John Detre, Murray Grossman, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center

The Neural Basis For Sentence Processing In Healthy Seniors

M. Grossman, A. Cooke, C. DeVita, W. Chen, J. Detre, D. Alsop, J. Gee, University of Pennsylvania

Priming in Alzhiemer's Disease as Predicted by Lexical Associations in Natural Language

Guila Glosser , University of Pennsylvania, and Zana Devitto and Curt Burgess, University of California, Riverside

The Relationship between Naming and Semantic Memory in Alzheimer's Disease and Aphasia

Susan E. Ward, Harold Goodglass Aphasia Research Center

TUESDAY

23 OCTOBER 2001

MEETING DAY #3

3:15 PM

39th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia

is Adjourned