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 Center
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