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2457180

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1988-9-19
pubmed:abstractText
This report bears on the behavior of 188 unilateral stroke subjects when administered an aphasia screening test comprising a short interview as well as naming, repetition, word-picture matching and sentence-picture matching tasks. All subjects were unilingual lusophone adult (40 yr of age or older) right-handers. Furthermore, they were either totally unschooled illiterates or they had received school education and thereafter retained writing skills and reading habits. Subjects were tested less than 2 months after a first unilateral stroke. In all tasks, global error scores were greater among left and right brain-damaged illiterate and literate subjects than among their controls. In repetition and matching, these differences were statistically significant for the left but not for the right-stroke groups, irrespective of the literacy factor. In naming, on the other hand, significant differences were found not only for the two left-stroke groups but also for the right-stroke illiterate group although not for the right-stroke literate one. Likewise, some degree of word-finding difficulty and of reduction in speech output as well as sizeable production of phonemic paraphasias were observed in the interviews of several right-stroke illiterates, clearly less in those of right-stroke literates. These findings lead us to suggest that cerebral representation of language is more ambilateral in illiterates than it is in school educated subjects although left cerebral "dominance" remains the rule in both.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0028-3932
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
26
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
N
pubmed:pagination
575-89
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-11
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1988
pubmed:articleTitle
Illiteracy and brain damage. 3: A contribution to the study of speech and language disorders in illiterates with unilateral brain damage (initial testing).
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratoire Théophile-Alajouanine, Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier Côte-des-Neiges, Montréal, Canada.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't