title: The preservation of verb subcategory knowledge in a spoken language comprehension deficit.
abstract: Patient WBN has a lexical-semantic deficit resulting in impaired performance on language comprehension tasks that require access to verb meanings in both single-word and sentence contexts. However, WBN shows no such comprehension impairment with respect to lexical syntax. Specifically, he performs without error on comprehension tasks that rely on knowledge of lexical-specific verb subcategory requirements. This performance pattern supports theories of lexical representation and processing in which lexical syntactic information may be encoded and retrieved independently from lexical semantic information.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Brigham Young University, 1022 SWKT, Provo, UT 84602, USA. m_allen@byu.edu
authors.forename: Mark D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Allen
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001037:Aphasia / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012660:Semantics; D013067:Speech Perception; D020521:Stroke / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000473:pathology