o      Language deficits and basal ganglia lesions: the past tense (Longworth, Tyler & Marslen-Wilson)

o      Regular and irregular verb inflections in agrammatism: Dissociation or association (Shah & Thompson)

o      The crucial role of tense for verb production (Druks & Carroll)

Chair: Peter Borenstein

o      On lexical organization in the human brain: Evidence from intracarotid sodium amytal injection (Bhatnagar, Stuyvessant & Buckingham)

o      An ERP investigation of age of acquisition effects in spoken word recognition (Tainturier, Johnson, Tamminen & Thierry)

1)    Concreteness effects in lexical tasks:  Access to a mental image? (Samson & Pillon)

2)    The relationship between naming performance and underlying category structure in Alzheimer’s Disease (Gonnerman, Aronoff, Andersen, Kempler & Almor)

3)    Effects of relatedness, repetition and rate:  Further investigations of context-sensitive naming

        (Hodgson, Schwartz, Brecher & Rossi)

4)    The relative effects of imageability and age-of-acquisition on aphasic misnaming (Kremin,, Lorenz,de Wilde, Perrier, Arabia, LaBonde & Buitoni)

5)    Confrontation naming in aphasic and non-aphasic patients with frontotemporal dementia (Moore, Dennis & Grossman)

6)    Effects of metrical and segmental cues on word retrieval in aphasia (Lorenz, Ziegler & De Bleser)

7)    Deep dysphasia in Turkish (Raman & Weekes)

8)    Structural constraints in aphasic speech errors (Gordon)

9)    Intrasubject variability of cognitive and word retrieval performance across six sessions (LaPointe, Stierwalt & Heald)

10)  Changes in error patterns pre- and post-treatment in view of the interactive activation model of lexical retrieval (Jokel, Rochon & Leonard)

11)  A single case study of pathological mixing in a polyglot aphasic (Rossi, Denes & Bastiaanse)

12)  Memory disturbances and comprehension of verbal suffixes:  A case study of aphasia in Indonesian (Postman)

13)  On the morphological basis of syntactic deficits (Penke)

14)  Morphology does not help comprehension in Agrammatism:  A study of German and Hebrew (Burchert, Friedmann & De Bleser)

15)  The trouble with nouns and verbs (Randall & Tyler)

16)  Independent access to the meaning and the syntax of morphologically-complex words:  Evidence from a case of acquired dyslexia (Palma Durán & Pillon)   

17)  Grammatical gender processing in aphasic patients (Hofmann, Marschhauser & Kotz)

18)  Wh-question production in German Broca’s aphasia (Neuhaus & Penke)

19)  Complex sentences in Dutch Broca’s aphasia:  Another case of dissociated functional projections? (de Roo)

20)  Verbs with alternating transitivity in Parkinson’s disease:  evidence from production and comprehension tasks (Katsarou, Stavrakaki, Alexiadou, Anagnostopoulou, Kafantari & Bostantjopoulou)

21)  Economy principles of grammar in agrammatic aphasia (Banreti)

22)  Grammaticality judgment under non-optimal processing conditions:  Deficits induced in normal participants resemble those observed in aphasic patients (Wilson, Saygin, Schleicher, Dick & Bates)

23)  On the nature of direct speech in narratives of African Americans with aphasia (Ulatowska & Olness)

24)  Prosodic and lexical semantic influences on syntactic parsing in subjects with right and left hemisphere damage (Walker, Pelletier & White)

25)  The role of syntactic processing in idiom comprehension (Papagno & Genoni)

26)  Syntactically reduced speech in Italian Broca’s aphasics and normal speakers (Rossi, Borgo, Semenza, Zuodar, de Roo and Kolk)

27)  Task-demand modulation of activation in Broca’s area (Love, Swinney, Haist, Nicol & Buxton)

28)  Lexical, syntactic and semantic constraints on auxiliary selection for in French:  A first dissociation in aphasic patients (Griffini, Rigalleau & Cordier)

o      The comprehension of pronouns and reflexives in agrammatic and Wernicke’s aphasia (Ruigendijk & Avrutin)

o      Adverb placement as evidence for clause structure and parameterization of verb movement in a bilingual Greek-English speaking patient with Broca’s aphasia (Alexiadou & Stavrakaki)

o      Pronominal reference and agrammatic comprehension (Edwards, Varlokosta & Payne)

o      Beyond canonical form: Verb-frame frequency affects verb production and comprehension (Menn, Gahl, Holland, Ramsberger & Jurafsky)

o      Syntactic deficits in aphasia: Was Wernicke right after all? (Kean)

o      The organization of semantic memory: Evidence from semantic refractory access dysphasia (Crutch & Warrington)

o      Gogi aphasia or semantic dementia?  Neuropsychological evidence for an amodal, dynamic semantic system (Ralph & Patterson)

o      The conceptual structure of cabbages and things (Tyler & Moss)

o      Knowledge of sensory-quality categories in two herpes encephalitic patients (Borgo, Shallice & Pontin)

o      Measuring the activation and causal role of motor affordances in object identification (Bub)

1)    Semantic processing and category-specificity:  A new methodological approach (Campanella, Borgo, Semenza & Granà)

2)    Unitary versus multiple semantics:  Evidence from neuroimaging studies (Bright, Moss & Tyler)

3)    Residual knowledge of objects in semantic dementia:  Semantic or “semantic-like”? (Pillon, Verreckt, de Partz & Ivanoiu)

4)    Summation of semantic priming effects in Parkinson’s Disease and healthy individuals (Angwin, Chenery, Copland, Murdoch & Silburn)

5)    Dissociating object knowledge and number knowledge in semantic dementia and corticobasal degeneration:  Correlation with high-resolution MRI (Halpern, Clark, McMillan, Gee & Grossman)

6)    Temporal constraints on summation of activation in Broca’s aphasia:  Evidence from a triplet-priming task (Chenery, Holmes, Ingram & Cardell)

7)    The effect of backward masking on direct and indirect semantic priming in patients with Parkinson’s disease and in healthy individuals (Arnott, Chenery, Copland, Murdoch & Silburn)

8)    Dopamine enhances semantic salience:  Semantic priming evidence from healthy individuals (Copland, Chenery, Murdoch, Arnott & Silburn)

9)    Longitudinal pattern of knowledge loss for plants and manufactured objects in a patient with Alzheimer’s disease (Cornil & Pillon)

10)  Semantic processing of words in right- and left-handers (Tremblay, Monetta & Joanette)

11)  Investigating semantic deficits with nouns and verbs in Alzheimer’s disease (Almor, Kempler, Andersen, Aronoff, Gonnerman & MacDonald

12)  Pattern of letter substitutions in a case of acquired dysgraphia:  The influence of visuospatial  and stroke-feature similarity (de Partz, Lochy, Pillon)

13)  Visual processing of lexical and sublexical units in dyslexia (Stenneken, Conrad, Goldenberg & Jacobs)

14)  Writing and long term memory:  Evidence for a “Translation” hypothesis (Whurr)

15)  Further evidence for persisting difficulties in orthographic learning in highly educated adults with a history of developmental dyslexia (Poncelet, Schyns & Majerus)

16)  The pioneering work of Marcé (1856) on the distinction between speech and writing (Barriere)

17)  Written word production of a Cantonese dysgraphic patient (Law)

18)  Peripheral agraphia in writing numbers:  Role of processing load (Lochy, Domahs & Delazer)

19)  Amusia:  selective rhythm processing following left temporoparietal lesion in a professional musician with conduction aphasia (Di Pietro, Laganaro, Leemann & Schnider)

20)  Auditory vigilance of linguistic and nonlinguistic stimuli in individuals with aphasia (Laures)

21)  “Fast same reaction” in phonemic discrimination task in aphasic patients (Osman-Sagi)

22)  Speech coordination in individuals with aphasia and normal speakers (Bose, Lieshout & Square)

23)  Perception and short-term memory for verbal information in children with specific language impairment:  further evidence for impaired short-term memory capacities (Majerus, Vrancken & Van der Linden)

24)  Cognitive and linguistic disturbances in the posterior fossa syndrome in children:  A diaschisis phenomenon? (Mariën, Engelborghs, Michiels & De Deyn)

25)  Recovery from aphasia after polytrauma in a Czech child:  What is lost and what is left (Lehečková)

o      Stress assignment in German patients with surface dyslexia (Janssen)

o      Evidence for separate tonal and segmental tiers in the lexical specification of words: A production and perception study of a  brain-damaged Chinese speaker  (Liang & van Heuven)

o      Position-specific or position-independent grapheme representations in the spelling system: Evidence from dysgraphia (McCloskey & Macaruso)

o      The orthographic representation of consonant-vowel status: Evidence from two cases of acquired dysgraphia (Buchwald & Rapp)

o      Acquired childhood aphasia: British contributions to the 19^th century debate (Hellal & Lorch)

o      Recovery of word form processing after left inferior parietal lesion: A single case

o            fMRI study (Grande, Weis, Willmes & Huber)

o      Recovery from anomia: Effects of specific rehabilitation on brain reorganisation:  An er-fMRI study in two anomic patients (Vitali, Tettamanti, Abutalebi, Danna, Ansaldo, Perani, Cappa & Joanette)

o      Learning new objects with new names: Cognitive and neural correlates of lexical acquisition (Laine, Cornelissen, Renvall, Saarinen, Martin & Salmelin)     

o      Investigating comprehension impairments in users of British Sign Language following CVA  (Marshall, Atkinson, Thacker & Woll)

o      Numbers and calculation in crossed aphasia  (Semenza, Bertella, Granà, Mori & Conti)

o      The neural basis of the prosody-syntax interplay: The role of the corpus callosum (Friederici, Kotz, Steinhauer & von Cramon)

o      Differentiation of syntactic processes in the left and right anterior temporal lobe: Event-related brain potential evidence from lesion patients (Kotz, von Cramon &  Friederici

1)    Rehabilitation of arithmetic abilities:  Different intervention strategies for multiplication (Domahs, Bartha & Delazer)

2)    Quantitative and qualitative changes in phonemic word fluency:  A longitudinal study of aphasia (Sarno, Postman & Cho)

3)    Effects of phonological neighbourhood in recovery from word-finding impairment:  A case study (Laganaro, Di Pietro & Schnider)

4)    Picture naming treatment in aphasia yields greater improvement in L1 (Hinckley)

5)    Transfer patterns of naming treatment in a case of bilingual aphasia (Galvez & Hinckley)

6)    Biofeedback treatment of buccofacial apraxia using EMA (Katz, Levitt & Carter

7)    The recovery from aphasia depends on both the left and right hemispheres:  Three longitudinal case studies on the dynamics of language function after aphasia (Ansaldo & Arguin)

8)    Cognitive, linguistic and motor speech effects of donepezil hydrochloride in a patient with stroke-related aphasia and apraxia of speech (Pashek & Bachman)

9)    Learning and maintenance in aphasia rehabilitation (Friedman, Lacey & Lott)

10)  A Cantonese linguistic communication measure (CLCM):  Further development (Pak-Hin & Law)

11)  Can Boston naming test be used as clinical tool for differdiagnosis in dementia? (Tsolaki, Tsantali, Lekka, Kiosseoglou & Kazis

12)  A method for creation and validation of a natural spoken language corpus using for prosodic and speech perception (Wendt, Hufnagel, Brechmann, Gaschler-Markefski, Tiedge, Ackermann & Scheich)

13)  Idiom comprehension in childhood:  An assessment tool and age norms (Huber-Okrainec & Dennis)

14)  Correlating motor and cognitive behaviour:  Exploring the notion of akinetic and dyskinetic linguistic homologues (Murdoch, Whelan, Theodoros, Hall & Silburn)

15)  EEG analysis of Brazilian sign language comprehension (Rocha & Rocha)

16)  Interictal language functions in chronic mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (Bartha, Trinka, Glatzl, Bauer & Benke)

17)  The Jackson vs Broca debate of 1868:  French and British 19^th century views on the localization of language in the brain (Lorch)

18)  Neural basis for confrontation naming difficulty in semantic dementia and Alzheimer’s disease (McMillan, Moore, Dennis, Gee & Grossman)

19)  Crucial involvement of language relevant areas in auditory working memory:  fMRI findings in healthy subjects (Gaschler-Markefski, Yoneda, Kaulisch, Brechmann, Scheich)

20)  Preserved ERP markers for language processing in a patient with a partial resection of the brain (Jarick, Saddy & Hahne)

21)  Maintaining speech in early neurodegenerative disease:  Broca’s activity increases while other areas decline (Sidtis & Gomez)

22)  Processing homonymous and polysemous words:  The effects of flocal left- and right-hemisphere damage (Klepousniotou & Baum)

23)  Interpretation of prosodic indicators of speaker confidence following right hemisphere damage (Pell & Long)

24)  Inferential abilities in right-hemisphere-damaged individuals:  Looking for subgroups (Hamel, Giroux, & Joanette)

25)  Impact of resources restriction on processing of non-literal utterances (Monetta, Champagne, Desautels & Joanette

26)  Accounting for the pragmatic deficit in RHD individuals:  A multiple case study (Champagne, Desautels & Joanette)

27)  Inferencing abilities by right-brain-damaged individuals under a dual task condition (Leonard)

o      Effect of training phoneme to grapheme conversion in improving written and oral deficits (Kiran, Tuchtenhagen & Spelman)

o      Increasing versus vanishing cues in naming therapy (Abel, Schultz, Radermacher, Willmes & Huber)