Training flexible conceptual retrieval in post-stroke aphasia
| Autor: | Hannah E. Thompson, Sara Stampacchia, Upasana Nathaniel, Elizabeth Jefferies, Jonathan Smallwood, Matthew A. Lambon Ralph, Lucilla Lanzoni, Glyn Hallam |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Hallam, Glyn P [0000-0002-8956-9054], Thompson, Hannah E [0000-0002-0679-1961], Jefferies, Elizabeth [0000-0002-3826-4330], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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030506 rehabilitation
Executive Neuropsychological Tests Affect (psychology) Training (civil) ddc:616.0757 Task (project management) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Cognition Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) executive Aphasia Generalization (learning) medicine Training Humans cognitive control Applied Psychology training Rehabilitation Test (assessment) Semantics Identification (information) Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Cognitive control Post stroke semantic medicine.symptom 0305 other medical science Psychology Cognition Disorders Semantic 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Neuropsychological Rehabilitation (2021) pp. 1-27 |
| ISSN: | 1464-0694 0960-2011 |
| Popis: | Semantic therapy in post-stroke aphasia typically focusses on strengthening links between conceptual representations and their lexical-articulatory forms to aid word retrieval. However, research has shown that semantic deficits in this group can affect both verbal and non-verbal tasks, particularly in patients with deregulated retrieval as opposed to degraded knowledge. This study, therefore, aimed to facilitate semantic cognition in a sample of such patients with post-stroke semantic aphasia (SA) by training the identification of both strong and weak semantic associations and providing explicit pictorial feedback that demonstrated both common and more unusual ways of linking concepts together. We assessed the effects of this training on (i) trained and untrained items; and (ii) trained and untrained tasks in eleven individuals with SA. In the training task, the SA group showed improvement with practice, particularly for trained items. A similar untrained task using pictorial stimuli (Camel and Cactus Test) also improved. Together, these results suggest that semantic training can be beneficial in patients with SA and may show some degree of generalization to untrained situations. Future research should seek to understand which patients are most likely to benefit from this type of training. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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