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 Alzheimers 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 BROCAS AREA REALLY DO? (Dronkers)
1-Introduction -- Dronkers
2-Anatomy of Brocas 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?: Alzheimers 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 peoples 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 Alzheimers 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