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Effects of syntactic structure and propositional number on patterns of regional cerebral blood flowD Caplan
Massachusetts General Hospital, Neuropsychology Laboratory, Boston MA, 02114, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 10:541-52. 1998..They also suggest that this specialization is separate from the brain systems that are involved in utilizing the meaning of a sentence that has been understood to accomplish a task...- Activation of Broca's area by syntactic processing under conditions of concurrent articulationD Caplan
Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114, USA
Hum Brain Mapp 9:65-71. 2000.... - Verbal working memory and sentence comprehensionD Caplan
Neuropsychology Laboratory, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Behav Brain Sci 22:77-94; discussion 95-126. 1999..We present a theory of the divisions of the verbal working memory system and suggestions regarding its neural basis... - Functional neuroimaging studies of syntactic processingD Caplan
Neuropsychology Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
J Psycholinguist Res 30:297-320. 2001..It is argued that existing studies suggest a specialization for one aspect of syntactic processing in the left inferior frontal cortex in proficient language users, with variability in this localization across the entire population... - Vascular responses to syntactic processing: event-related fMRI study of relative clausesDavid Caplan
Neuropsychology Laboratory, Department of Neurology, Vincent Burnham 827, Massachusetts General Hospital, Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Hum Brain Mapp 15:26-38. 2002..This study shows that a hemodynamic response associated with processing the syntactically complex portions of a sentence can be localized to one part of the dominant perisylvian association cortex... - Anatomy of stroke, Part II: volumetric characteristics with implications for the local architecture of the cerebral perfusion systemV S Caviness
Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Stroke 33:2557-64. 2002..This inference may be tested by serial volumetric analysis of the perfusion-diffusion examination mismatch immediately and over the longer-term evolution of stroke... - Effects of age and speed of processing on rCBF correlates of syntactic processing in sentence comprehensionDavid Caplan
Neuropsychology Laboratory, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Hum Brain Mapp 19:112-31. 2003..The results suggest that the speed of syntactic processing, but not age per se is related to the neural location where one aspect of syntactic processing is carried out... - Determinants of bold signal correlates of processing object-extracted relative clausesEvan Chen
Neuropsychology Laboratory, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114, USA
Cortex 42:591-604. 2006..These results require a re-interpretation of previous results with the same materials using positron emission tomography... 
Syntactic and thematic constraint effects on blood oxygenation level dependent signal correlates of comprehension of relative clausesDavid Caplan
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 20:643-56. 2008....- Memory and encoding of spoken discourse following right hemisphere damage: evidence from the Auditory Moving Window (AMW) techniqueD Titone
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, USA
Brain Lang 77:10-24. 2001..Taken together, the encoding and recall results are consistent with the view that extracting passage gist under difficult listening conditions is especially vulnerable for patients with right hemisphere strokes... - Aphasic deficits in syntactic processingDavid Caplan
Neuropsychology Laboratory, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Cortex 42:797-804. 2006..This paper reviews the data upon which such theories are based and argues that they may support only the latter type of model... - Distinct patterns of neural modulation during the processing of conceptual and syntactic anomaliesGina R Kuperberg
Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 15:272-93. 2003..This suggests that morphosyntactic and pragmatic information can be processed in different ways but by the same neural systems... - Electrophysiological distinctions in processing conceptual relationships within simple sentencesGina R Kuperberg
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Bldg 149, 13th Street, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 17:117-29. 2003..Our findings suggest a qualitative neural distinction in processing these two types of conceptual anomalies within simple, unambiguous sentences... - Using fMRI to discover cognitive operationsDavid Caplan
Neuropsychology Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Cortex 42:393-5; discussion 422-7. 2006 - The relationship between age, processing speed, working memory capacity, and language comprehensionGloria Waters
Boston University, Dept of Communication Disorders, 635 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Memory 13:403-13. 2005..The data are argued to provide evidence that the WM system used to structure sentences syntactically is separate from that used in other aspects of language comprehension... - Task-dependent and task-independent neurovascular responses to syntactic processingDavid Caplan
Neuropsychology Laboratory, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Cortex 44:257-75. 2008.... - On-line syntactic processing under concurrent memory loadGloria Waters
Department of Health Sciences, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 10:88-95. 2003.... - A study of syntactic processing in aphasia II: neurological aspectsDavid Caplan
Neuropsychology Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Brain Lang 101:151-77. 2007..The data are consistent with a model in which the neural tissue that is responsible for the operations underlying sentence comprehension and syntactic processing is localized in different neural regions in different individuals... - Anatomy of stroke, Part I: an MRI-based topographic and volumetric System of analysisV S Caviness
Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Stroke 33:2549-56. 2002..Intended long-range applications include correlation of outcome of stroke with predictions from acute-phase diffusion- and perfusion-weighted imaging and investigations of the potential benefit of therapeutic agents... - A study of syntactic processing in aphasia I: behavioral (psycholinguistic) aspectsDavid Caplan
Neuropsychology Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Brain Lang 101:103-50. 2007..The results indicate that the major cause of aphasic impairments of syntactically based comprehension are intermittent reductions in the processing capacity available for syntactic, interpretive, and task-related operations... - The relationship between age, verbal working memory, and language comprehensionGayle DeDe
Communication Disorders Program, Department of Health Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Psychol Aging 19:601-16. 2004.... - Experimental design and interpretation of functional neuroimaging studies of cognitive processesDavid Caplan
Neuropsychology Laboratory, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Hum Brain Mapp 30:59-77. 2009.... - Cognitive conjunction and cognitive functionsDavid Caplan
Neuropsychology Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
Neuroimage 21:751-6. 2004.... - Question/statement judgments: an fMRI study of intonation processingColin P Doherty
Neuropsychology Laboratory and MGH MIT HMS Athinoula A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Hum Brain Mapp 23:85-98. 2004..The study provides data relevant to the location of regions responsive to intonationally marked illocutionary differences between questions and statements... - On-line syntactic processing in aphasia: studies with auditory moving window presentationDavid Caplan
Neuropsychology Laboratory, Department of Neurology, Vincent Burnham 827, Massachusetts General Hospital, Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Brain Lang 84:222-49. 2003.... - Why is Broca's area involved in syntax?David Caplan
Neuropsychology Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Cortex 42:469-71. 2006.... - Working memory and online syntactic processing in Alzheimer's disease: studies with auditory moving window presentationGloria Waters
Department of Communication Disorders, Boston University, Massachusetts, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 57:P298-311. 2002..This provides evidence for a specialization within working memory for syntactic processing... - Frequency of concrete words modulates prefrontal activation during semantic judgmentsMichael W L Chee
Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore 169856
Neuroimage 16:259-68. 2002..These findings suggest that retrieval effort modulates left prefrontal activity when deliberate access to semantics is required... - How long does it take to find a cause? An online investigation of implicit causality in sentence productionMichèle Guerry
Universite de Poitiers, Poitiers, France
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 59:1535-55. 2006..In the discussion, we suggest that this effort could be related to the number of constraints that an incongruent clause must satisfy to be consistent with the causal structure of the discourse... - Individual differences in rCBF correlates of syntactic processing in sentence comprehension: effects of working memory and speed of processingGloria Waters
Department of Communication Disorders, Boston University, MA 02215, USA
Neuroimage 19:101-12. 2003..The results indicate that rCBF responses to syntactic comprehension tasks vary as a function of speed of sentence processing but not as a function of working memory... - Comprehension of sentences with stylistic inversion by French aphasic patientsFrançois Rigalleau
Laboratoire Langage et Cognition, CNRS UMR 6096, France
Brain Lang 89:142-56. 2004..The results are also relevant to models of normal syntactic structure... - Cognition, emotion and the cerebellumJeremy D Schmahmann
Ataxia Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA, USA
Brain 129:290-2. 2006 - New arguments in favour of an automatic gender pronominal processFrançois Rigalleau
Universite de Poitiers, Poitiers, France
Q J Exp Psychol A 57:893-933. 2004..The four experiments confirm the existence of a nonstrategic gender coindexation process between a pronoun and the entity in the focus of a discourse... - Training with cognitive sequences improves syntactic comprehension in agrammatic aphasicsMichel Hoen
Sequential Cognition and Language Group, Institut de Sciences Cognitives, Cedex, France
Neuroreport 14:495-9. 2003..72, <0.05). The specificity of this transfer indicates that language relies partially on functional and neural processes that are not language specific... - Face encoding and psychometric testing in healthy dextrals with right hemisphere languageMichael W L Chee
Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Singapore General Hospital
Neurology 59:1928-34. 2002..Cognitive function does not appear to be significantly compromised even though some psychometric test scores are asymmetric in favor of nonverbal performance when the reversal of lateralization of face and word memory is not complete...