PSYCHOLOGY REVIVALS The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Language Edited by Max Coltheart, Giuseppe Sartori and Remo Job T Psychology Press Psychology Revivals The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Language Damage to rhe brain can impair language in many different ways, severely harming some linguistic functions whilst sparing others. To achieve some- understanding of the apparently bewildering diversity of language disorders, it is necessary to interpret impaired linguistic performance by relating it to a model of normal linguistic performance. Originally published in 1987, this book describes the application of such models of normal language processing to the interpretation of a wide variety of linguistic disorders. It deals with both the production and the comprehension of language, with language at both the sentence and the single-word level, with written as well as with spoken language and with acquired as well as with developmental disorders. This page intentionally left blank The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Language Edited by Max Coltheart Giuseppe Sartori Remo Job Vp Psychology Press X Taylor & Francis Croup LONDON AND NEW YORK First published in 1987 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Ltd This edition first published in 2014 by Psychology Press 27 Church Road, Hove, BN3 2FA Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Psychology Press 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Psychology Press is an imprint of tlx Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Copyright © 1987 by Lawrence Eribaum Associates, Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or uriliscd in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Publisher’s Note The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original copies may be apparent. Disclaimer The publisher has made every effort to trace copyright holders and welcomes correspondence from those they have been unable to contact. ISBN: 978-1-84872-309-2 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-83280-7 (ebk) THE COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE Edited by Max Coltheart Giuseppe Sartori Remo Job f¥^/A LAWRENCEERLBAUM ASSOCIATES,PUBLISHERSnisTA 1 London Hillsdale, New Jersey llt= ^\ Copyright © 1987 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by photostat, microform, retrieval system, or any other means, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Ltd., Publishers 27 Palmeira Mansions Church Road Hove East Sussex BN3 2FA Reprinted 1989 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data The Cognitive neuropsychology of language. I. Neurolinguistics I. Coltheart, M. 612.8 QP399 ISBN 0-86377-036-3 Typeset by Latimer Trend & Company Ltd., Plymouth Printed and bound by A. Wheaton & Co. Ltd., Exeter Contents Preface 1. Functional Architecture of the Language-Processing System 1 Max Coltheart Processing Single Words and Non-Words 5 Sentence Production and Comprehension 21 Conclusions 23 References 24 2. Reading Without Letters? 27 David Howard Introduction 27 Case Report 33 Cross Case Matching 4! The Effects of Visual Manipulations on Oral Word Reading Script Effects in Oral Word Reading 49 Word Shape and Lexical Decision 51 Discussion 52 Acknowledgements 57 References 57 3. Direct-Route Reading and the Locus of Lexical Decision 59 Giuseppe Sartori, Jacqueline Masterson, and Remo Job Introduction 59 Case Report 63 Experimental Investigation 64 Discussion 71 Appendices 75 References 76 4. Speech Output Processes and Reading 79 Daniel Bub, Sandra Black, Janice Howell, and Andrew Kertesz Introduction 79 Case Report 83 Testing for Adequate Subvocal Rehearsal 95 Ability to Decode Written Sentences 101 Discussion 103 References 107 5. Impairments of Semantic Processing: Multiple Dissociations 111 Tim Shallice Multiple Semantic Representation Systems 112 Degraded Representations and Impaired Access 117 Problems and Complications 121 References 126 6. Contrasting Patterns of Sentence Comprehension Deficits in Aphasia 129 David Caplan Introduction 129 Methods and Materials 130 CaseS. P. 133 CaseR. L. 139 Concluding Remarks 141 Acknowledgements 143 References 143 7. Spoken Language Comprehension in Aphasia: A Real-Time Processing Perspective 145 Lorraine K. Tyler Introduction 145 Selection of Patients 148 Current Research 149 Conclusions 160 Acknowledgements 161 References 162 8. Patterns of Speech Production Deficit Within and Across Aphasia Syndromes: Application of a Psycholinguistic Model 163 Myrna F. Schwartz Introduction 163 The Psycholinguistic Approach to Aphasia 164 The Classical Neuroanatomical Theory of the Aphasias 165 A Psycholinguistic Model of Sentence Production 177 Sentence Production in Wernicke’s Aphasia 183 Sentence Production Deficits in Agrammatic Broca’s Aphasies 189 Acknowledgements 196 References 196 vi 9. Grammatical Disturbances of Speech Production 201 Domenico Parisi Introduction 201 The Construction of a Sentence’s Meaning 201 The Production of Content and Function Words 209 Some Data on Grammatically Disturbed Spontaneous Speech 211 Discussion of the Data 215 References 219 10. Symptom Co-Occurrence and Dissociation in the Interpretation of Agrammatism 221 Rita Sloan Berndt Introduction 221 Methods 223 Discussion 230 Acknowledgements 232 References 232 11. The Role of the Phoneme-to-Grapheme Conversion System and of the Graphemic Output Buffer in Writing 235 Gabriele Miceli, Maria Caterina Jilveri, and Alfonso Caramazza Introduction 235 Case Report 239 Experimental Study 240 Acknowledgements 251 References 251 12. Speech and Writing Errors in “Neologistic Jargonaphasia”: A Lexical Activation Hypothesis 253 Diane Miller and Andrew W. Ellis Introduction 253 R.D.’s Errors in Speech and Writing 255 Interpretation and Implications 262 Acknowledgements 268 References 269 13. Speak and Spell: Dissociations and Word-Class Effects 273 Karalyn Patterson and Christina Shewell Introduction 273 Case Report 276 Background Tests 277 Spelling 283 Word-Class Effects 285 Concluding Comments 291 References 292 vii