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 …

One third of stroke patients suffer from language disorders. These disorders severely impair
individuals' communication abilities, which impacts on their quality of life. Recently, the …

Despite often impressive improvements on linguistic assessments, there is a lack of
evidence of significant generalisation from impairment-focused aphasia therapy to everyday …

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: Bilinguals with post-stroke aphasia (BWA) require treatment options that are
sensitive to their particular bilingual background and deficits across languages. However …

Decades of research highlight the importance of formulaic expressions in everyday spoken
language (Vihman, 1982; Wray, 2002; Kuiper, 2009). Along with idioms, expletives, and …

Background: Phonological cuing in spoken picture naming is widely used to improve word
production accuracy in aphasic participants and to investigate word planning processes in …

The CogWatch project (www. cogwatch. eu) aims to create an intelligent assistance system
to improve activities of daily living (ADL) in stroke survivors, who suffer from impaired ability …

Objective: This study aimed to determine the extent to which robotic arm rehabilitation for
chronic stroke may promote recovery of speech and language function in individuals with …

Purpose: To ascertain the utility of event-related potentials in studying language processing
in patients suffering from aphasia. Methods: Recent methods to evaluate event related …