AN INVESTIGATION OF NEURAL MECHANISMS UNDERLYING VERB MORPHOLOGY DEFICITS IN APHASIA

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dc.contributor.advisorFaroqi-Shah, Yasmeenen_US
dc.contributor.authorPifer, Madeline Ren_US
dc.contributor.departmentHearing and Speech Sciencesen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-22T05:41:19Z
dc.date.available2019-06-22T05:41:19Z
dc.date.issued2019en_US
dc.description.abstractAgrammatic aphasia is an acquired language disorder characterized by slow, non-fluent speech that include primarily content words. It is well-documented that people with agrammatism (PWA) have difficulty with production of verbs and verb morphology, but it is unknown whether these deficits occur at the single word-level, or are the result of a sentence-level impairment. The first aim of this paper is to determine the linguistic level that verb morphology impairments exist at by using magnetoencephalography (MEG) scanning to analyze neural response to two language tasks (one word-level, and one sentence-level). It has also been demonstrated that PWA benefit from a morphosemantic intervention for verb morphology deficits, but it is unknown if this therapy induces neuroplastic changes in the brain. The second aim of this paper is to determine whether or not neuroplastic changes occur after treatment, and explore the neural mechanisms by which this improvement occurs.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/nfei-wcvx
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/22221
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledSpeech therapyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAgrammatismen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAphasiaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMEGen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledNeuroimagingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledverben_US
dc.titleAN INVESTIGATION OF NEURAL MECHANISMS UNDERLYING VERB MORPHOLOGY DEFICITS IN APHASIAen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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