Recent studies have shown that the systematic and repetitive observation of actions
belonging to the experiential human motor repertoire without verbal facilitation enhances the …

Recent studies have shown that action observation treatment without concomitant verbal
cue has a positive impact on the recovery of verb retrieval deficits in aphasic patients. In …

A tight coupling of language and motor processes has been established, which is consistent
with embodied cognition theory. However, very few therapies have been designed to exploit …

The pervasiveness of word-finding difficulties in aphasia has motivated several theories
regarding management of the deficit and its effectiveness. Recently, the hypothesis was …

Functional recovery in response to a brain lesion, such as a stroke, can even occur years
after the incident and may be accelerated by effective rehabilitation strategies. In eleven …

Aphasia is a highly disabling language disorder usually caused by a left-lateralized brain
damage. Even if traditional linguistic-based therapies have been proved to induce an …

Resting state magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI) permits observation of intrinsic neural
networks produced by task-independent correlations in low frequency brain activity. Various …

Background Representations of objects and actions in everyday speech are usually
materialized as nouns and verbs, two grammatical classes that constitute the core elements …

The estimated prevalence of aphasia in the UK and the USA is 250 000 and 1 000 000,
respectively. The commonest aetiology is stroke. The impairment may improve with …

Backgrounds: Evidence exists that the observation of actions performed by others enhance
word retrieval and can be used in aphasia rehabilitation to treat naming impairments. Aim …