About a quarter of stroke patients worldwide suffer serious language disorders such as
aphasias. Most common symptoms of Broca's aphasia are word naming disorders which …

Background Impaired naming is a ubiquitous symptom in all types of aphasia, which often
adversely impacts independence, quality of life, and recovery of affected individuals …

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

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 …

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 …

Gestures accompany speech and enrich human communication. When aphasia interferes
with verbal abilities, gestures become even more relevant, compensating for and/or …

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

People with post-stroke motor aphasia know what they would like to say but cannot express
it through motor pathways due to disruption of cortical circuits. We present a theoretical …

Background and Objectives. A tight link between linguistic functions and activation of motor
areas has been consistently reported, indicating that the 2 systems share functional neural …

There is ample agreement in the scientific literature, across diverse areas of study, that
suggests that language and movement are interrelated. In particular, it is widely held that the …