Université de Fribourg

Cue recognition and integration – eye tracking evidence of processing differences in sentence comprehension in aphasia

Schumacher, Rahel ; Cazzoli, Dario ; Eggenberger, Noëmi ; Preisig, Basil ; Nef, Tobias ; Nyffeler, Thomas ; Gutbrod, Klemens ; Annoni, Jean-Marie ; Müri, René M.

In: PLoS ONE, 2015, vol. 10, no. 11, p. e0142853

We aimed at further elucidating whether aphasic patients’ difficulties in understanding non-canonical sentence structures, such as Passive or Object-Verb-Subject sentences, can be attributed to impaired morphosyntactic cue recognition, and to problems in integrating competing interpretations.Methods: A sentence-picture matching task with canonical and non-canonical spoken sentences was...