This study investigated the long-term effects of bilateral prefrontal leukotomy on lexical abilities in schizophrenia subjects.
Within the domain of language and communication, there is evidence that ASC individuals' "lexical" abilities involving individual words are spared or enhanced (e.g., in picture naming; [32]), even when the "pragmatics" of language use (i.e. the usage of language in social and communicative contexts) is hampered (see [33] for a recent review).
The CEFR, however, is a general reference document which is at times somewhat problematic to use due to its language-neutral scope, and due to the fact that it "has little to say about the nature of vocabulary in particular languages, or about the nature of lexical ability" (Alderson 2005, p. 192).
Lexical ability was also assessed using the phonemic verbal fluency test (F.A.S).
Children's classifications were not reliant on lexical semantic abilities and were consistent with a model of emotion categories based on their degree of valence and arousal.
At the end of 3 months of treatment, between-group comparisons showed that stimulation of lexical-semantic abilities through TR improved global cognitive performance and language abilities in the same manner as LSS delivered in-person, and stabilized delayed verbal episodic memory and working memory performances with respect to the control group, which showed severe memory deterioration.
For instance, behavioral investigations of hemispheric contributions to semantic processing for people with LH lesions and subsequent aphasia, have found evidence of improved RH lexical-semantic abilities following LH lesions [ 13- 15] and neuroimaging investigations have found increases in RH activation during language tasks following LH lesions [ 7- 12].
We might call this the Wallace problem, for Alfred Russel Wallace (who discovered natural selection independent of Darwin) became intensely concerned with the paradox of the human brain's many potential abilities: lexical, mathematical, and so on — abilities that would be of little use in a primitive or a prehistoric society.
We might call this the Wallace problem, for Alfred Russel Wallace (who discovered natural selection independent of Darwin) became intensely concerned with the paradox of the human brain's many potential abilities: lexical, mathematical, and so on abilities that would be of little use in a primitive or a prehistoric society.
However, relatively few studies have investigated this phenomenon in light of lexical speech production abilities, which have not been systematically found to benefit from neurofunctional reorganization during verbal fluency tasks.
In the study of de Oliveira and Lan (2014), the school-aged participant improved both his lexical and rhetorical abilities of writing.
