Preliminary Program
Academy of Aphasia October 2000 Montréal, Québec
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2000
8:00am-9:00am
Registration and Coffee
9:00am-10:30am
SYMPOSIUM 1
(Moderator: David Caplan)
Research in Speech Errors: A tribute to Victoria Fromkin
Introduction and Commentary
David Caplan
The evolution of models of speech production: Reflections from Vicki’s first student
Harry Whitaker
The architecture of speech production processes
Merrill Garrett
Speech and prosodic errors
Stephanie Shattuck-Huffnagel
The characteristics of speech errors in persons with fluent aphasia
Eleanor Saffran
10:30am-11:00am
Coffee Break
11:00am-12:30pm
POSTER SESSION 1
(Moderator: )
Phonological, Suprasegmental and Articulatory Production
The influence of phonological context on aphasic sound errors: A case study.
Rachel E. Goldmann, Myrna F. Schwartz and Carolyn E. Wilshire
Suprasegmental correlates of phrase boundary distinctions in aphasic and non-aphasic speech.
Marc D. Pell, Shari R. Baum, Carol Leonard and Jeanne K. Gordon
Hemispheric specialization in processing prosodic structures: Re-visited.
Judy Perkins Walker and Tracy Daigle
Acoustic analysis of compensatory articulation in an individual with cerebellar atrophy: Implications for models of speech production.
Jay M. Perrin and William F. Katz
Impairment of lexical tone production in stroke patients with bilingual aphasia.
Valerie Lim and Jacinta Douglas
Language Comprehension and Production in Dementia
Functional neuroimaging of sentence comprehension in frontotemporal dementia.
Ayanna Cooke, Christian DeVita, Willis Chen, David Alsop, James Gee, John Detre, Phyllis Koenig, Guila Glosser, Murray Grossman
The relationship between working memory capacity and on-line sentence processing efficiency in patients with DAT.
Gloria S. Waters, David Caplan and Carolyn Dufault
Visual processing and oral reading impairment in Alzheimer’s disease.
Guila Glosser, Krista M. Baker, Jeroen J. De Vries, Abass Alavi, Christopher M. Clark and Murray Grossman
Automatic semantic priming in Alzheimer’s dementia: A comparison of lexical decision and word naming tasks.
Emma E. MacKenzie, Helen J. Chenery and John C. L. Ingram
Stroop performance in Alzheimer’s disease: A preliminary test of theories of damage using a connectionist simulation.
Janet Wiles, Helen J. Chenery, Jennifer Hallinan, Alan Blair and Daniel Naumann
PET activation during picture naming in Alzheimer’s disease.
Howard Chertkow, Christine Whatmough, Susan Murtha, Dan Bub, Dion Fung and David Gold
Analysis of semantic category effects in picture naming in Alzheimer’s disease.
Christine Whatmough, Howard Chertkow, Dion Fung, Lennie Babins and Nora Kelner
Lost for words or loss of memories: Autobiographic memory in semantic dementia.
Helen Moss, Marinella Cappelletti, Paul De Mornay Davies, Eli Jaldow and Michael Kopelman
Language in Parkinson’s Disease and Schizophrenia
Real-time sentence processing in Parkinson’s disease.
Christine Lee, Murray Grossman, Jennifer Morris, Matthew Stern and Howard I. Hurtig
Dopaminergic modulation of semantic activation: Evidence from Parkinson’s disease.
Bruce E. Murdoch, Wendy L. Arnott, Helen J. Chenery and Peter A. Silburn
Impaired meaning selection for polysemous words in individuals with nonthalamic subcortical lesions and Parkinson’s disease.
David A. Copland, Helen J. Chenery and Bruce E. Murdoch
Identity and semantic priming in schizophrenia using a letter search task.
Helen J. Chenery, Catharine M. Pettigrew and John McGrath
12:30pm-2:00pm
ACADEMY LUNCHEON
Speaker:
2:00pm-3:30pm
PLATFORM SESSION 1
(Moderator: )
Neurobiological Effects of Treatment
Effects of intralaminar thalamic stimulation on linguistic processing.
Subhash C. Bhatnagar and George Mandybur
Reperfusion of special brain regions restores selective lexical functions.
Argye E. Hillis, Peter Barker, D. Phil, Norman Beauchamp, and Robert Wityk
FMRI studies of agrammatic sentence comprehension before and after treatment: Comparison with normal subjects.
Cynthia K. Thompson, Stephen C. Fix, Darren R. Gitelman, Todd B. Parrish, and M. Marsel Mesulam
3:30pm-4:00pm
Tea & Coffee Break
4:00pm-5:30pm
PLATFORM SESSION 2
(Moderator: )
Psycholinguistic Mechanisms of Reading, Writing and Spelling
Category-specific sparing of reading and spelling.
Marinella Cappelletti, Michael Kopelman and Brian Butterworth
Structure and texture in graphemic representations: Further evidence from Dysgraphia.
M. J. Tainturier, J. Egan, J. and B.C. Rapp
Semantic processing of nonwords by a deep dyslexic.
L. Buchanan, S. McEwen, C. Westbury and G. Libben
5:30pm-7:30pm
RECEPTION - Cash Bar, Cocktail Party
(HOTEL VAULT)
MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2000
8:30am-10:00am
SYMPOSIUM 2
(Moderators: Cynthia Thompson & Steven Small)
Neural Correlates of Language Recovery in Aphasia
Introduction:
Steven Small
Brain Imaging in Recovery from Aphasia:
C. Weiller
FMRI studies of Agrammatic Sentence Comprehension Before and After Treatment:
C. Thompson, S. Fix, D. Gitelman, T. Parrish, & M-M Mesulam
A Functional MRI Study of Language Therapy in a Conduction Aphasic Patient:
D. Cardebat, A. Léger, M. Puel, B. Aithamon, B. Touyeras, K. Boulanouar, & J.F. Demonet,
10:00am-10:30am
Coffee Break
10:30am-12:30pm
POSTER SESSION 2
(Moderator: )
Aphasia Recovery
Long-term recovery of naming and word-finding in narrative discourse in aphasia.
Patricia Marinaro Fitzpatrick, Lisa Tabor Connor, Loraine K. Obler and Avron Spiro
Clinical significance of recovery in aphasia: Social validation of improvement in a selected aspect of communication change.
Leonard L. LaPointe, Richard C. Katz and Cindy Braden
Functional Imaging Studies of Language and Aphasia
Localization of syntactic processing in sentence comprehension by event-related fMRI.
David Caplan, Sujith Vijayan, Gina Kuperberg, Caroline West, Gloria Waters, Doug Greve and Anders M. Dale
Functional imaging studies of language in patients with dominant-hemisphere brain lesions.
D. Klein, B. Milner, R. Visca, A. Olivier and A Bastos
Stability of functional neuroanatomy of auditory sentence processing in an aphasic patient.
Martha W. Burton, Charlotte C. Mitchum and Steven L. Small
Processing of homonyms: A functional MRI study on the separation of word forms from concepts.
Walter Huber, Susanne Weis, Marion Grande, Stefan Pollrich and Klaus Willmes
Task demands influence the activation pattern of auditory semantic priming in fMRI.
Sonja A. Kotz, Anglea D. Friederici, Stefano F. Cappa and D. Yves von Cramon
Lexical Semantics
The status of zero in the semantic system: A neuropsychological study.
Manuela Cacciatori, Alessia Grana, Luisa Girelli and Carlo Semenza
Processing idiomatic expressions in the living-nonliving dissociation.
Francesca Borgo, Teresa Maria Sgaramella, Silvia Pontin and Carlo Semenza
Repeated sampling of word-retrieval in aphasia: Stability of errors.
Julie L. Wambaugh, Michele N. Alegre, Aida L. Martinez and Craig W. Linebaugh
Accessing aspectual verb forms in Polish: A case study.
Danuta Perlak and Gonia Jarema
Naming objects and actions: A case study.
Simona Collina, Paola Marangolo and Patrizia Tabossi
Count and mass nouns: Semantics and syntax in aphasia and Alzheimer]s disease.
Carlo Semenza, Sara Mondini and Katia Marinelli
12:30pm-1:30pm
LUNCH
1:30pm-3:30pm
PLATFORM SESSION 4
(Moderator: )
Treatment of Naming
Anomia treatment modifies naming-related cortical activation: evidence from an MEG study.
Katri Kiviniemi, Matti Laine, Antti Tarkiaien, Tiina Jarvensivu, Nadine Martin, and Riitta Salmelin
Phonological facilitation of aphasic naming and predicting the outcome of treatment for anomia.
Wendy Best, Julie Hickin, Ruth Herbert, David Howard, and Felicity Osborne
Learning of subordinate category names by aphasic subjects: Phonological versus personalized cueing.
Robert C. Marshall, Colleen M. Karow, Donald B. Freed, and Patricia Babcock
Facilitation of word retrieval in aphasia revisited.
David Howard, Wendy Best, Philippa Clark, Julie Hickin, and Teresa Redmond
3:30pm-4:00pm
Tea & Coffee Break
4:00pm-5:30pm
POSTER SESSION 3
(Moderator: )
Priming Naming
Automatic activation of cross-language word associates in the presence of a production deficit in a bilingual aphasic patient.
Karen Eck, Eva Kehayia, Fanny Singer and Gonia Jarema
Treatment for Reading and Naming
Grapheme to phoneme conversion treatment in patients with severe oral reading and naming deficits.
Swathi Kiran, and Cynthia K. Thompson
Rehabilitation of slowed reading in pure alexia with the Multiple Oral Reading Technique: Further evidence for top-down facilitation in the recovery of reading speed.
Jyrki Tuomainen, Eeva Gustafsson, and Matti Laine
Training a self-initiated written word strategy in aphasia and apraxia of speech.
Amy P. Lustig and Connie A. Tompkins
Treatment of Comprehension
Using treatment to unmask verb complexities in sentence comprehension.
Charlotte C. Mitchum, Anne N. Haendiges and Rita S. Berndt
Sharing responsibility for checking information: A key to transmission of information in conversation.
Makoto Hayashi, Gail Ramsberger and Lisa Menn
Treating attention to improve auditory comprehension in aphasia.
Nancy Helm-Estabrooks, Lisa Tabor Connor and Martin L. Albert
Effectiveness of intensive training in a case of progressive non-fluent aphasia: Evidence of preserved brain plasticity.
M. Louis, R. Espesser, V. Daffaure, Y. Joanette and M. Habib
Right Hemisphere Language Processing
Changes in word list recall by subjects with right hemisphere stroke.
Anita S. Halper and Leora R. Cherney
Speed of lexical-semantic activation in right-hemisphere-damaged and non-brain-damaged individuals.
Wiltrud Fassbinder and Connie A. Tompkins
The evaluation of the ability of right-hemisphere damaged patients to process speech acts: An ecological approach.
C. Vanhalle, S. Lemieux, P. Goulet, B. Ska and Y Joanette
Speech Perception
and Auditory ProcessingVoicing discrimination in stop consonants by brain-damaged patients: The role of overt segmentation.
Shari R. Baum
Speech-Reading and its role in auditory processing.
Bernadette Bibb, Lyndsey Nickels and Max Coltheart
Memory and Aphasia
Short-term verbal memory in a patient with conduction aphasia.
Barbara A. Barresi and Kimberly C. Lindfield
Serial-position effects for information unit production: The role of memory in the RAPP story retell procedure for normals and persons with aphasia.
Martin B. Brodsky, Malcolm R. McNeil, Grace H. Park, Tepanta R. D. Fossett, Neil H. Timm and Patrick J. Doyle
Strategies underlying category free-recall in anterior versus posterior aphasia.
Kimberly C. Lindfield, Dasha Polzik and Jennifer A. Roberts
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2000
8:00am-10am
PLATFORM SESSION 5
(Moderator: )
Cross-Linguistic Syntactic Comprehension and Production
Verb finiteness in agrammatism: A cross-linguistic study.
Roelien Bastiaanse and Cynthia K. Thompson
The organization of agreement affixes in the mental lexicon: Evidence from German Broca’s aphasia.
Ulrike Jansen and Martina Penke
Processing of noun-adjective and adjective-noun compounds in Italian agrammatic patients.
Sara Mondini, Gonia Jarema, Claudio Luzzatti, Cristina Burani, and Carlo Semenza
Processing of grammatical gender in Russian-speaking aphasics.
Tatiana Akhutina, Andrei Kurgansky, Marina Kurganskaya, Maria Polinsky, and Elizabeth Bates
10:00am-10:30am
COFFEE BREAK
10:30am-12:30pm
POSTER SESSION 4
(Moderator: )
Cross-Linguistic Syntactic Comprehension and Production
Grammaticality judgments by agrammatic aphasics: Data from Brazilian-Portuguese.
Ricardo Joseh Lima and Celso Vieira Novaes
The end of dichotomies: Dissociating different types of mental computations during the processing of past tense in Greek language-impaired patients.
Kyrana Tsapkini, Gonia Jarema and Eav Kehayia
The influence of language learning on brain morphology: The "Callosal effect" in dyslexics differs according to native language.
M. Habib, F. Robichon, V. Chanoine, J. F. Demonet, C. Frith and U. Frith
Psycholinguistic Mechanisms of Reading Writing and Spelling
Non-semantic pathways of reading and writing Chinese: Data from a Cantonese speaking brain-damaged patient.
Sam-Po Law and Bella Or
Are the part of speech and concreteness effects in phonological/deep alexia the result of the same underlying deficit?
Rhonda B. Friedman, Diane M. Sample, and Susan Nitzberg Lott
Time coding and written language acquisition: New evidence from analyses of temporal processing in dyslexic children and normal readers.
Sonia De Martino, Virginie Daffaure, Veronique Rey and Michel Habib
The purpose of lexical/sublexical interaction in spelling: Evidence from articulatory suppression.
Jocelyn R. Folk, Brenda Rapp and Amy Kane
Agrammatic Sentence Production
Effect of lexical cues on the production of passive sentences in Wernicke’s aphasia.
Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah and Cynthia K. Thompson
Functional categories in agrammatic speech.
Marina Arabatzi and Susan Edwards
Developmental and Acquired Pediatric Language Impairments
Developmental language impairment (DLI) and French verbs: A comparison of visual simple lexical decision and word reading tasks.
Phaedra Royle, Gonia Jarema and Eva Kehayia
Contributions of phonological and semantic short-term memory to sentence processing in head-injured children.
Gerri Hanten and Randi C. Martin
Word fluency in relation to severity of closed head injury, frontal lesions, and age at injury in children.
Harvey S. Levin, James Song, Linda Ewing-Cobbs, Sandra B. Chapman and Dianne Mendelsohn
Does agrammatic speech constitute a regression to child language? A three-way comparison between agrammatic, child and normal ellipsis.
Herman Kolk
12:30pm-1:30pm
LUNCH
1:30pm-3:30pm
PLATFORM SESSION 6
(Moderator: )
"Tan" Revisited and Agrammatic Sentence Production
Brocas historic cases revisited.
N. F. Dronkers, O. Plaisant, M. T. Iba-Zizen and E. A. Cabanis
Agrammatic speech production: The overuse hypothesis.
Esterella de Roo
Canonicity and inflection in agrammatic sentence production.
Herman Kolk
Grammar and fluent aphasia
Susan Edwards
3:30pm
CONFERENCE ADJOURNS