Search Results - "Saffran, Eleanor M"

Knowledge of object manipulation and object function: dissociations in apraxic and nonapraxic subjects by Buxbaum, Laurel J, Saffran, Eleanor M

“…An influential account of selective semantic deficits posits that visual features are heavily weighted in the representations of animals, whereas information…”
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Distinctions between manipulation and function knowledge of objects : evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging by BORONAT, Consuelo B, BUXBAUM, Laurel J, COSLETT, H. Branch, TANG, Kathy, SAFFRAN, Eleanor M, KIMBERG, Daniel Y, DETRE, John A

“…A prominent account of conceptual knowledge proposes that information is distributed over visual, tactile, auditory, motor and verbal-declarative attribute…”
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Language and Auditory-verbal Short-term Memory Impairments: Evidence for Common Underlying Processes by Saffran, Nadine Martin Eleanor M.

“…We report an investigation of the short-term memory STM impairments of 15 aphasic subjects whose language profiles varied with respect to the relative…”
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Semantic Factors in Verb Retrieval: An Effect of Complexity by Breedin, Sarah D., Saffran, Eleanor M., Schwartz, Myrna F.

“…Aphasic patients often have more difficulty retrieving verbs than nouns. We present data from eight aphasics demonstrating that they have a selective…”
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Recovery in Deep Dysphasia: Evidence for a Relation between Auditory–Verbal STM Capacity and Lexical Errors in Repetition by Martin, Nadine, Saffran, Eleanor M., Dell, Gary S.

“…This study investigates the changes in auditory–verbal short-term memory (AVSTM) and error patterns in repetition observed in a Wernicke's aphasic, NC, over a…”
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The quantitative analysis of agrammatic production: procedure and data by Saffran, E M, Berndt, R S, Schwartz, M F

“…Despite the long-standing interest in structural aspects of aphasic production, no method has emerged for the systematic analysis of aphasic speech. This paper…”
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Lexical Access in Aphasic and Nonaphasic Speakers by Dell, Gary S, Schwartz, Myrna F, Martin, Nadine, Saffran, Eleanor M, Gagnon, Deborah A

“…An interactive 2-step theory of lexical retrieval was applied to the picture-naming error patterns of aphasic and nonaphasic speakers. The theory uses…”
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Knowledge of the human body: A distinct semantic domain by COSLETT, H. Branch, SAFFRAN, Eleanor M, SCHWOEBEL, John

“…Patients with selective deficits in the naming and comprehension of animals, plants, and artifacts have been reported. These descriptions of specific semantic…”
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Evidence for preserved reading in 'pure alexia' by Coslett, H B, Saffran, E M

“…We describe 4 patients who developed pure alexia after infarctions of the left cerebral hemisphere. All subjects employed a letter-by-letter strategy (with…”
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The Origins of Formal Paraphasias in Aphasics' Picture Naming by Gagnon, Deborah A., Schwartz, Myrna F., Martin, Nadine, Dell, Gary S., Saffran, Eleanor M.

“…Accounts of spoken word production differ on whether aphasics' formal paraphasias derive solely from segmental distortion or whether some derive instead from…”
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Quantitative Analysis of Aphasic Sentence Production: Further Development and New Data by Rochon, Elizabeth, Saffran, Eleanor M., Berndt, Rita Sloan, Schwartz, Myrna F.

“…The narrative production of patients with Broca's aphasia and age-and education-matched control subjects was analyzed using the Quantitative Production…”
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Sensitivity to grammatical structure in so-called agrammatic aphasics by Linebarger, M C, Schwartz, M F, Saffran, E M

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Contrasting effects of phonological priming in aphasic word production by Wilshire, Carolyn E., Saffran, Eleanor M.

“…Two fluent aphasics, IG and GL, performed a phonological priming task in which they repeated an auditory prime then named a target picture. The two patients…”
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Optic aphasia and the right hemisphere: a replication and extension by Coslett, H B, Saffran, E M

“…Optic aphasia is a rare, visual modality-specific naming disorder. We describe a patient who developed this disorder subsequent to a left occipital lobe…”
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The relationship of input and output phonological processing: An evaluation of models and evidence to support them by Martin, Nadine, Saffran, Eleanor M.

“…In this paper, we review studies of the relationship between input and output phonological processing and discuss the means by which an interactive activation…”
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The Organization of Semantic Memory: In Support of a Distributed Model by Saffran, Eleanor M.

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Sentence Processing in the Face of Semantic Loss: A Case Study by Breedin, Sarah D, Saffran, Eleanor M

“…The modularity of the sentence processor, or lack thereof, remains a much-debated issue in psycholinguistics. The authors present evidence from a semantically…”
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A computational account of deep dysphasia: evidence from a single case study by Martin, N, Saffran, E M

“…We present a case study of a patient, NC, who demonstrates the defining characteristics of deep dysphasia including semantic errors in repetition and an…”
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Dissociations of language function in dementia: a case study by Schwartz, M F, Marin, O S, Saffran, E M

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Differences in word associations to pictures and words by Saffran, Eleanor M, Coslett, H.Branch, Keener, Matthew T

“…Normal subjects were asked to produce the “first word that comes to mind” in response to pictures or words that differed with respect to manipulability and…”
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