The Effects of Prosody on Sentence Comprehension: Evidence from a Neurotypical Control Group and Seven Cases of Chronic Stroke

Overview

Journal Neurocase

Publisher Routledge

Specialties Neurology
Psychiatry
Psychology
Social Sciences

Date 2019 Jun 27

PMID 31241420

Citations 2

Authors

Arianna N LaCroix

Nicole Blumenstein

Chloe Houlihan

Corianne Rogalsky

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Abstract

Both prosody and sentence structure (e.g., canonical versus non-canonical) affect sentence comprehension. However, few previous studies have examined a possible interaction between prosody and sentence structure. In adult controls we found a significant interaction: typical sentence prosody, versus list prosody, facilitated comprehension of only some sentence structures. In seven stroke patients, impaired attentional control was related to impaired comprehension with sentence prosody but not list prosody; impaired working memory was related to impaired comprehension with list prosody, but not sentence prosody. Thus, non-canonical sentence comprehension impairments in stroke patients may be modulated by prosody, based on a patient's cognitive abilities.

Citing Articles

Distinct Contributions of Working Memory and Attentional Control to Sentence Comprehension in Noise in Persons With Stroke.

Fitzhugh M, LaCroix A, Rogalsky C J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2021; 64(8):3230-3241.

PMID: 34284642 PMC: 8740654. DOI: 10.1044/2021_JSLHR-20-00694.

Effects of prosody on the cognitive and neural resources supporting sentence comprehension: A behavioral and lesion-symptom mapping study.

LaCroix A, Blumenstein N, Tully M, Baxter L, Rogalsky C Brain Lang. 2020; 203:104756.

PMID: 32032865 PMC: 7064294. DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2020.104756.

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