Online Examination of Language Performance in Normal and Neurologically Impaired Adults

This article describes how we and others have exploited online methodology to investigate normal and disordered language processing in adults. Online tasks can be used to measure effects occurring at various temporal points during ongoing processing and are often sensitive to fast-acting, automatic...

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Published in:American journal of speech-language pathology 1998-02, Vol.7 (1), p.49-60
Main Authors: Shapiro, Lewis, Swinney, David, Borsky, Susan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Argument structure
Argumentation
Brain damage
Brain research
Broca's aphasia
Cognition & reasoning
Comprehension
Computer Managed Instruction
Knowledge
Language
Language Processing
Lexical access
Lexical processing
Listening comprehension
Medical personnel
Memory
Naming
Neurosciences
Patients
Psychology of learning
Reading Comprehension
Repetition
Sentence structure
Sentences
Speech-language pathology
Time
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Summary:This article describes how we and others have exploited online methodology to investigate normal and disordered language processing in adults. Online tasks can be used to measure effects occurring at various temporal points during ongoing processing and are often sensitive to fast-acting, automatic processes, as well as to processes that rely on the integration and interaction of several types of information. Online tasks can be compared to their offline counterparts, tasks such as sentence-picture matching, categorization, word generation and repetition. These tasks are often used by clinicians as part of their assessment and treatment repertoire and measure effects observed at the end-points of perhaps several processes. They can thus mask a patient's strengths (and weaknesses) in any single area, including subcomponents of the language domain. We review several online lexical and syntactic processing experiments and end with a discussion of the clinical benefits of this work.
ISSN:1058-0360
1558-9110
DOI:10.1044/1058-0360.0701.49