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20887740

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pubmed:issue
13
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-11-8
pubmed:abstractText
The pervasiveness of word-finding difficulties in aphasia has motivated several theories regarding management of the deficit and its effectiveness. Recently, the hypothesis was advanced that instead of simply accompanying speech gestures participate in language production by increasing the semantic activation of words grounded in sensory-motor features, hence facilitating retrieval of the word form. Based on this assumption, several studies have developed rehabilitation therapies in which the use of gestures reinforces word recovery. Until now, however, no studies have investigated the beneficial effects of gesture observation in word retrieval. Here, we report whether a different modality of accessing action-motor representation interacts with language by promoting long lasting recovery of verb retrieval deficits in aphasic patients. Six aphasic participants with a selective deficit in verb retrieval participated in an intensive rehabilitation training that included three daily sessions over two consecutive weeks. Each session corresponded to a different rehabilitation procedure: (1) "action observation", (2) "action observation and execution", and (3) "action observation and meaningless movement". In the four participants with lexical phonologically based disturbances, significant improvement of verb retrieval was found only with "action observation" and "action observation and execution". No significant differences were present between the two procedures. Moreover, the follow-up testing revealed long-term verb recovery that was still present two months after the two treatments ended. In support of a multimodal representation of action, these findings univocally demonstrate that gestures interact with the speech production system, inducing long-lasting modification at the lexical level in patients with cerebral damage.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
1873-3514
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
48
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
3824-33
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Improving language without words: first evidence from aphasia.
pubmed:affiliation
Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Facoltà di Medicina, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy. p.marangolo@univpm.it
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article