Reply: Are recovery of fluency and recovery of phonology antagonistic?
Reply: Are recovery of fluency and recovery of phonology antagonistic?
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答:流利度的恢复和音韵的恢复是对立的吗?
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10.1093/brain/awad027
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2023
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Lambon Ralph MA
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Lambon Ralph MA
Given the urgent and pressing need to understand language recovery mechanisms in post-stroke aphasia, we were delighted in the interest taken by Walker and Hickok 1 in our recent exploration. Their enthusiasm and diligence are marked by the fact that the title and focus of their Letter pertains to one of the additional preliminary findings (reported in the Supplementary material). We will discuss their observations on that specific finding below, but the broader state-of-play in this field and the major findings from the study are perhaps even more important. Despite the importance of plotting and understanding variable language recovery in poststroke aphasia, the current literature is marked by a ‘double dearth’:(i) there are only a handful of longitudinal group studies of language recovery from the acute/subacute phase that combine detailed neuropsychological and functional MRI evidence. Those that do exist are heavily biased towards the mildest patients, 2 undoubtedly reflecting that this form of longitudinal patient tracking is logistically challenging, and it is difficult to recruit moderate-to-severely impaired patients in the acute phase. In parallel;(ii) whilst verbally described ideas about language recovery can be traced back to the seminal 19th century aphasiological studies, there is a distinct lack of formal, ideally computationally-implemented, accounts of the neurocognitive mechanisms that might underpin recovery processes. 3 Our study represents, we hope, a contribution to the small knowledge base on recovery but much more is needed. Similarly, the field will benefit from a greater number and range of computationally-implemented models of aphasia and the mechanisms that may underpin recovery (eg Ueno et al. 4), as well as patient-inspired experimental models that can be derived from combining brain stimulation with functional MRI in healthy participants. 5