BOSTON UNIVERSITY APHASIA RESEARCH CENTER

失用类型及其与皮损部位和功能的关系分析 135例患者将完成形式失语症的治疗。一系列研究 根据失语症患者的扫描，将检查病变与 失语症的特殊模式和从失语症到大脑的恢复 不对称。我们会继续更新评估程序，并研究 老年失语症语言功能易感性的性别差异 令人发狂的主题也将继续。 句法研究将继续进行几个接受语的调查 无语法失用者的加工，其中他们的输出和理解 我们会比较个人资料以及他们在网上与OPEN交易的能力 和封闭式词汇。初始数据收集将从一个新的 跨情态词法和句法。 在词汇语义学领域，我们计划提出一些概念 分类和概念概括研究。我们将继续 收集和分析用于命名的单词类别之间的分离数据 和理解力。对命名障碍的研究将检验稳定性 通过测试率和比较来命名失语症中的词汇。 在我们对书面语言的考察中，我们将检验这一假设 纯词盲可能是ALL阈值升高的一种表现 视觉感知。语用学的研究将继续进行考试 右半球受损患者对似是而非的认识 消息的非字面含义。 对大脑优势的研究将强调对自律性的评估。 运动优势的形式与非权利的生物关联性 左撇子。

Analysis of patterns of apraxia and their relationship to lesion site and form of aphasia will be completed on 135 patients. A series of studies based on scans of aphasic patients will examine the relation of lesion to particular aphasia patterns and recovery from aphasia, as well as to brain asymmetry. We will continue to update assessment procedures and to study sex differences in susceptibility to aphasia language functions in aging and dementing subjects will also continue. Studies of syntax will continue with several investigations of receptive processing by agrammatic aphasics in which their output and comprehension profiles are compared as well as their ability to deal on-line with open and closed class vocabulary. Initial data collection will begin with a new cross-modal morphology and syntax battery. In the area of lexical semantics, we plan to initiate a number of concept classification and concept generalization studies. We will continue to collect and analyze data on dissociations among word categories for naming and comprehension. Studies of naming disorders will examine the stability of naming vocabulary in aphasia by test-rates and comparisons. In our examination of written language we will examine the hypothesis that pure word-blindness may be an expression of elevated threshold for all visual percepts. Studies of pragmatics will continue with an examination of right hemisphere damaged patients' appreciation of plausibility and of non-literal implication of messages. Studies of cerebral dominance will emphasize the evaluation of autonamous forms of motor dominance and the biological correlates of non-right handedness.