All Relations between language understanding and semantics

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D Bagga, N Singh, S Modi, P Kumar, D Bhattacharya, M L Garg, S Khush. Assessment of lexical semantic judgment abilities in alcohol-dependent subjects: an fMRI study. Journal of biosciences. vol 38. issue 5. 2014-07-28. PMID:24296894. to investigate the preserved mechanisms of language processing in alcohol-dependents, functional brain imaging was undertaken in healthy controls (n=18) and alcohol-dependents (n=16) while completing a lexical semantic judgment task in a 3 t mr scanner. 2014-07-28 2023-08-12 human
Dazhi Cheng, Aihong Zhou, Xing Yu, Chuansheng Chen, Jianping Jia, Xinlin Zho. Quantifier processing can be dissociated from numerical processing: evidence from semantic dementia patients. Neuropsychologia. vol 51. issue 11. 2014-05-08. PMID:23867350. we administered a series of neuropsychological tests (i.e., language processing, numerical processing and semantic distance judgment) to two patients with different levels of severity in semantic dementia (mild vs. severe). 2014-05-08 2023-08-12 Not clear
Dazhi Cheng, Aihong Zhou, Xing Yu, Chuansheng Chen, Jianping Jia, Xinlin Zho. Quantifier processing can be dissociated from numerical processing: evidence from semantic dementia patients. Neuropsychologia. vol 51. issue 11. 2014-05-08. PMID:23867350. moreover, the patient with severe/late semantic dementia showed more impairment in quantifier and semantic processing than the patient with mild/early semantic dementia. 2014-05-08 2023-08-12 Not clear
Daniel Mirman, Allison E Britt, Qi Che. Effects of phonological and semantic deficits on facilitative and inhibitory consequences of item repetition in spoken word comprehension. Neuropsychologia. vol 51. issue 10. 2014-03-21. PMID:23770302. the two individuals with aphasia were matched on overall aphasia severity, but had deficits at different levels of processing: one with a phonological deficit and spared semantic processing, the other with a semantic deficit and spared phonological processing. 2014-03-21 2023-08-12 human
Pedro M Paz-Alonso, Simona Ghetti, Ian Ramsay, Marjorie Solomon, Jong Yoon, Cameron S Carter, J Daniel Raglan. Semantic processes leading to true and false memory formation in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia research. vol 147. issue 2-3. 2014-01-17. PMID:23623175. episodic memory impairments in schizophrenia (sz) are strongly driven by failures to process semantic relations, but the exact nature of these relational semantic processing deficits is not well understood. 2014-01-17 2023-08-12 human
Pertti Hella, Jussi Niemi, Jukka Hintikka, Lidia Otsa, Jani-Matti Tirkkonen, Hannu Kopone. Disordered semantic activation in disorganized discourse in schizophrenia: a new pragma-linguistic tool for structure and meaning reconstruction. International journal of language & communication disorders. vol 48. issue 3. 2014-01-16. PMID:23650888. studies of language processing have demonstrated that semantic activation in schizophrenia is often disordered and, moreover, the ability to use contextual cues is impaired. 2014-01-16 2023-08-12 Not clear
Gabriela Gan, Christian Büchel, Frédéric Ise. Effect of language task demands on the neural response during lexical access: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Brain and behavior. vol 3. issue 4. 2014-01-01. PMID:24381811. to clarify the functional role of the inferior frontal gyrus (ifg) for semantic processing with respect to semantic decision making compared to semantic processing per se, we used a linguistic task that involved either a binary decision process (i.e., semantic categorization; experiment 1) or not (i.e., silently thinking about a word's meaning; experiment 2). 2014-01-01 2023-08-12 Not clear
Gabriela Gan, Christian Büchel, Frédéric Ise. Effect of language task demands on the neural response during lexical access: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Brain and behavior. vol 3. issue 4. 2014-01-01. PMID:24381811. the present fmri data give rise to the assumption that activation of the left inferior frontal gyrus (lifg) in the semantic domain might be important for semantic processing in general and not only for semantic decision making. 2014-01-01 2023-08-12 Not clear
Ellen F Lau, Alexandre Gramfort, Matti S Hämäläinen, Gina R Kuperber. Automatic semantic facilitation in anterior temporal cortex revealed through multimodal neuroimaging. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. vol 33. issue 43. 2013-12-23. PMID:24155321. together, these results provide strong evidence that automatic associative semantic facilitation is realized as reduced activity within the left anterior superior temporal cortex between 300 and 500 ms after a word is presented, and emphasize the importance of multimodal neuroimaging approaches in distinguishing the contributions of multiple regions to semantic processing. 2013-12-23 2023-08-12 human
Steven H Ferris, Martin Farlo. Language impairment in Alzheimer's disease and benefits of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors. Clinical interventions in aging. vol 8. 2013-11-26. PMID:23946647. language impairment in alzheimer's disease primarily occurs because of decline in semantic and pragmatic levels of language processing. 2013-11-26 2023-08-12 Not clear
Zaizhu Han, Yujun Ma, Gaolang Gong, Yong He, Alfonso Caramazza, Yanchao B. White matter structural connectivity underlying semantic processing: evidence from brain damaged patients. Brain : a journal of neurology. vol 136. issue Pt 10. 2013-11-25. PMID:23975453. widely distributed brain regions in temporal, parietal and frontal cortex have been found to be involved in semantic processing, but the anatomical connections supporting the semantic system are not well understood. 2013-11-25 2023-08-12 Not clear
Zaizhu Han, Yujun Ma, Gaolang Gong, Yong He, Alfonso Caramazza, Yanchao B. White matter structural connectivity underlying semantic processing: evidence from brain damaged patients. Brain : a journal of neurology. vol 136. issue Pt 10. 2013-11-25. PMID:23975453. these results underscore the causal role of left inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus, left anterior thalamic radiation, and left uncinate fasciculus in semantic processing, providing direct evidence for (part of) the anatomical skeleton of the semantic network. 2013-11-25 2023-08-12 Not clear
A D Wagner, J E Desmond, J B Demb, G H Glover, J D Gabriel. Semantic repetition priming for verbal and pictorial knowledge: a functional MRI study of left inferior prefrontal cortex. Journal of cognitive neuroscience. vol 9. issue 6. 2013-08-23. PMID:23964594. the present study examined the stimulus generality of lipc function by measuring prefrontal cortical activation during repeated relative to initial semantic processing of words (word-to-word semantic repetition priming) and of pictures (picture-to-picture semantic repetition priming). 2013-08-23 2023-08-12 Not clear
A C Nobre, G McCarth. Language-Related ERPs: Scalp Distributions and Modulation by Word Type and Semantic Priming. Journal of cognitive neuroscience. vol 6. issue 3. 2013-08-23. PMID:23964974. the isolation of this novel language-related erf' that is sensitive to semantic manipulations has important consequences for temporal and mechanistic aspects of theories of language processing. 2013-08-23 2023-08-12 Not clear
A E Hillis, A Caramazz. Cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying visual and semantic processing: implications from "optic aphasia". Journal of cognitive neuroscience. vol 7. issue 4. 2013-08-22. PMID:23961905. we provide evidence that dhy shows precisely the types of performance across a variety of verbal and visual tasks that have been used to support these claims of separate semantic systems: (1) good performance in naming to definition and naming objects presented for tactile exploration (which has been interpreted as evidence of spared verbal or left hemisphere semantic processing), and (2) good performance on various "semantic" tasks that do not require naming (which has been interpreted as access to spared visual or right hemisphere semantic processing). 2013-08-22 2023-08-12 Not clear
Mirco Richter, Amir Zolal, Oliver Ganslandt, Michael Buchfelder, Christopher Nimsky, Dorit Merho. Evaluation of diffusion-tensor imaging-based global search and tractography for tumor surgery close to the language system. PloS one. vol 8. issue 1. 2013-07-01. PMID:23308093. in case of the ifof however, standard fiber tracking and gibbs tracking predominantly identified the inferior longitudinal fasciculus that plays a secondary role in semantic language processing. 2013-07-01 2023-08-12 human
Miriam Faust, Elisheva Ben-Artzi, Nili Vard. Semantic processing in native and second language: evidence from hemispheric differences in fine and coarse semantic coding. Brain and language. vol 123. issue 3. 2013-06-21. PMID:23098917. previous studies suggest that whereas the left hemisphere (lh) is involved in fine semantic processing, the right hemisphere (rh) is uniquely engaged in coarse semantic coding including the comprehension of distinct types of language such as figurative language, lexical ambiguity and verbal humor (e.g., chiarello, 2003; faust, 2012). 2013-06-21 2023-08-12 Not clear
Krist A Noonan, Elizabeth Jefferies, Peter Garrard, Sheeba Eshan, Matthew A Lambon Ralp. Demonstrating the qualitative differences between semantic aphasia and semantic dementia: a novel exploration of nonverbal semantic processing. Behavioural neurology. vol 26. issue 1-2. 2013-05-13. PMID:22713375. demonstrating the qualitative differences between semantic aphasia and semantic dementia: a novel exploration of nonverbal semantic processing. 2013-05-13 2023-08-12 Not clear
Veit Mylius, Hela G Zouari, Samar S Ayache, Wassim H Farhat, Jean-Pascal Lefaucheu. Stroke rehabilitation using noninvasive cortical stimulation: aphasia. Expert review of neurotherapeutics. vol 12. issue 8. 2013-02-26. PMID:23002940. poststroke aphasia results from the lesion of cortical areas involved in the motor production of speech (broca's aphasia) or in the semantic aspects of language comprehension (wernicke's aphasia). 2013-02-26 2023-08-12 Not clear
Elizabeth Rochon, Gitit Kave, Jennifer Cupit, Regina Jokel, Gordon Winocu. Sentence comprehension in semantic dementia: a longitudinal case study. Cognitive neuropsychology. vol 21. issue 2. 2012-10-02. PMID:21038208. results are discussed in relation to the nature of the sentence comprehension impairment in semantic dementia and with reference to the modularity of the components of the language processing system. 2012-10-02 2023-08-12 human