Sentence examples for preserved comprehension from inspiring English sources

In the aphasia literature, it has been suggested that such heuristics underlie the preserved comprehension abilities of patients for noncomplex sentences (Caramazza and Zurif 1976; Grodzinsky 1995, 2000; Beretta et al. 1999).

Lesions to the left supramarginal gyrus are often associated with conduction aphasia (Green and Howes 1978), characterized by relatively preserved comprehension, impaired repetition, and paraphasic and otherwise disordered speech.

She had also occasional word-finding difficulties with preserved comprehension, and had become less organized and unable to multitask.

Patients had impaired production of speech but relatively preserved comprehension (to a level allowing them to consent to the study and understand the behavioural tasks).

Furthermore, this region shows hypometabolism [Nestor et al., 2003] and atrophy [Gorno-Tempini et al., 2004] in patients with nonfluent aphasia, a syndrome in which the ability to communicate fluently is lost in the context of preserved comprehension.

Patients were eligible for study inclusion when the aphasia test results indicated a largely preserved simple comprehension, with a comparably limited verbal expression.

Nonfluent/agrammatic variant PPA or PNFA is characterized by effortful speech and grammatical error-making, with relatively preserved language comprehension.

We further predict 2) that patterns of word position effects will remain stable across the life span, reflecting preserved sentence comprehension but that 3) we will see these in the context of age-related deterioration of neural structures critical for comprehension in younger adults, so that 4) preserved sentence comprehension in old age will require some form of neural compensation.

This study combined measures of syntactic comprehension, neural integrity and neural activity in patients with left hemisphere damage to determine which brain regions are essential for preserved syntactic comprehension, focusing on the left inferior frontal gyrus and its associated networks.

Because language production and comprehension largely engage the same sets of neural regions, this pattern of preservation and decline raises interesting questions, such as why does neural change affect language production more than comprehension, and if neural compensation preserves comprehension, why does it not preserve language production (e.g., Shafto et al. 2007)?

Critically, these results indicate that not only is language comprehension preserved across the life span but so is the neural plasticity required for compensatory recruitment.