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Université de Fribourg

Impairment of both languages in late bilinguals with dementia of the Alzheimer type

Manchon, Mélanie ; Buetler, Karin ; Colombo, Françoise ; Spierer, Lucas ; Assal, Frédéric ; Annoni, Jean-Marie

In: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2014, vol. 18, no. 01, p. 90–100

Neuropsychological theories raise the question if in late bilinguals with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT), the second language (L2) may be more impaired than the first (L1). We compared language performance in different tasks of oral comprehension (semantic and syntactic) and production (naming, repetition and fluency) in L1 and L2 in a group of 13 late proficient bilinguals wit DAT...

Université de Fribourg

Language specificity of lexical-phonological therapy in bilingual aphasia: A clinical and electrophysiological study

Radman, Narges ; Spierer, Lucas ; Laganaro, Marina ; Annoni, Jean-Marie ; Colombo, Françoise

In: Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 2016, vol. 26, no. 4, p. 532–557

Based on findings for overlapping representations of bilingual people's first (L1) and second (L2) languages, unilingual therapies of bilingual aphasia have been proposed to benefit the untrained language. However, the generalisation patterns of intra- and cross-language and phonological therapy and their neural bases remain unclear. We tested whether the effects of an intensive...

Université de Fribourg

Partly segregated cortico-subcortical pathways support phonologic and semantic verbal fluency: A lesion study

Chouiter, Leila ; Holmberg, Josefina ; Manuel, Aurelie L. ; Colombo, Françoise ; Clarke, Stephanie ; Annoni, Jean-Marie ; Spierer, Lucas

In: Neuroscience, 2016, vol. 329, p. 275–283

Verbal fluency refers to the ability to generate as many words as possible in a limited time interval, without repetition and according to either a phonologic (each word begins with a given letter) or a semantic rule (each word belongs to a given semantic category). While current literature suggests the involvement of left fronto-temporal structures in fluency tasks, whether the same or...