Time-course of encoding processes underlying word production: insight from ERP studies with aphasic patients

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titleTime-course of encoding processes underlying word production: insight from ERP studies with aphasic patients
start_date2014/11/20
schedule11h-12h30
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summaryS ingle word production has been intensively investigated with chronometric and electrophysiological approaches , leading to an estimate of the relative time course of the underlying encoding processes (Indefrey , 2011). Some of these estimates have been conclusively addressed in recent EEG/ERP studies. However, the interpretation of ERP results in these st udies is often based on assumption s about which encoding processes are affected by the manipulated psycholinguistic variables (e.g. lexical frequency) , which may be controversial. Here we will illustrate how the investigation of diverging ERP correlates i n aphasic speakers with specific underlying cognitive impairments contributes to the study of the dynamics of speech planning. In group studies ERPs diverged in picture naming in patients relative to controls in different time - windows according to the underlying (lexical - semantic , lexical - phonological ; phonological - phonetic ) impairments (Laganaro et al., 2009; 201 3 ). Converging results also appeared in a single case study, where ERPs could be compared before and after stroke in a patient presenting with lexical - phonological impairment (Laganaro et al. 2011) and in patterns of recovery from anomia (Laganaro, in prep).
responsiblesRigalleau, Croizet