Background: Co-verbal gestures refer to hand or arm movements made during speaking.
Spoken language and gestures have been shown to be tightly integrated in human …

Background and Purpose—Several recent studies have revealed modulation of the left
frontal lobe speech areas not only during speech production but also for speech perception …

The impact of sensorimotor strategies on aphasia recovery has rarely been explored. This
paper reports on the efficacy of personalized observation, execution, and mental imagery …

Background Studies measuring treatment efficacy for post-stroke verb anomia are scarce.
These studies mainly assessed the efficacy of three strategies: semantic, phonological and …

Purpose Decades of research have explored communication in cerebrovascular diseases
by focusing on formulaic expressions (eg,“Thank you”—“You're welcome”). This category of …

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

Purpose: BrightBrainer™ integrative cognitive rehabilitation system evaluation in an Adult
Day Program by a subject with Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) assumed to be of the …

Abstract Language impairment, or aphasia, is a disabling symptom that affects at least one
third of individuals after stroke. Some affected individuals will spontaneously recover partial …

Current approaches to treatments for word processing impairments in aphasia emphasize
two components to target, the linguistic content, semantic or phonological representations of …

There is little evidence that, for people with aphasia, successful outcomes following lexical
retrieval treatment generalise beyond single word retrieval to sentence production or daily …