Objective: Aphasia and apraxia of speech (AOS) after stroke frequently co-occur with a hand
motor impairment but few studies have investigated stroke recovery across motor and …

Two prominent hypotheses inform our current understanding of how the brain recovers
speech-motor function after an insult:(1) recruitment of perilesional cortex to form a new …

Background. The neural correlates of training-induced improvements of cognitive functions
after brain damage remain still scarcely understood. In the specific case of aphasia …

Purpose: If language production is impaired, will gestures compensate? Evidence in favor of
this prediction has often been argued to come from aphasia, but it remains contested. Here …

Aphasic deficits are usually only interpreted in terms of domain-specific language
processes. However, effective human communication and tests that probe this complex …

The majority of task-based fMRI studies examining the neural mechanisms of aphasia
recovery have been in the chronic phase, where people with aphasia typically employ both …

Background: During speech perception not only auditory but also visual information (seen
speech) is processed. This was shown by, for example, McGurk and MacDonald. In their …

Phonological deficits are common in aphasia after left-hemisphere stroke, and can have
significant functional consequences for spoken and written language. While many …

Discussion: This study demonstrates robust activation of a region in the right frontal
operculum during word stem completion in aphasics at the chronic stage of recovery with …

Background: Stroke may cause sentence comprehension disorders. Speech segmentation,
ie the ability to detect word boundaries while listening to continuous speech, is an initial step …