The effects of prosody on sentence comprehension: evidence from a neurotypical control group and seven cases of chronic stroke.

The effects of prosody on sentence comprehension: evidence from a neurotypical control group and seven cases of chronic stroke.
Neurocase. 2019 Jun 26;:1-12
Authors: LaCroix AN, Blumenstein N, Houlihan C, Rogalsky C
Abstract
Both prosody and sentence structure (e.g., canonical versus non-canonical) affect sentence comprehension. However, few previous studies have examined a possible interaction between prosody and sentence structure. In adult controls we found a significant interaction: typical sentence prosody, versus list prosody, facilitated comprehension of only some sentence structures. In seven stroke patients, impaired attentional control was related to impaired comprehension with sentence prosody but not list prosody; impaired working memory was related to impaired comprehension with list prosody, but not sentence prosody. Thus, non-canonical sentence comprehension impairments in stroke patients may be modulated by prosody, based on a patient's cognitive abilities.
PMID: 31241420 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Neurocase - June 25, 2019 Category: Neurology Authors: LaCroix AN, Blumenstein N, Houlihan C, Rogalsky C Tags: Neurocase Source Type: research