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Beyond Language: Systems Interactions in Receptive Processing |
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Elena Plante - The University of Arizona
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2004 |
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Classic paradigms for studying receptive language processing include such behavioral methods as item judgement or response tasks, act-out tasks, and reaction time measures. With any of these behavioral methods, the insights into language processing is limited by the response modality. The inherent bias in these methods is that correct or incorrect responses are interpreted solely in light of the language content of the stimuli. Furthermore, if the task requires both an encoding phase and a judgment or recall phase, it is often difficult to dissociate processing effects during these two phases. Neuroimaging studies, on the other hand, can provide insight into the interactions among language and other systems that are masked during performance on behavioral paradigms. In this presentation, we will examine how language, memory, and attention interact during a variety of language paradigms and look at the implication of this information for understanding language disorders. |
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Elena Plante, Ph.D.
Elena Plante, Ph.D. is a certified speech-language pathologist on the faculty of the Department of Speech & Hearing Sciences at the University of Arizona. She has been conducting neuroimaging and behavioral research for the past fifteen years. Her current work includes investigations of how perception and learning mechanisms contribute to receptive language processing. This work includes both behavioral studies and functional MRI. Additional collaborations involve topics including assessment of language, memory and the aging brain, neural support of writing, and studies of biological factors that may contribute to developmental language disorders. She has over fifty professional publications dealing primarily with developmental language disorders in children and adults. She reviews regularly for professional journals and for the National Institutes of Health. Her work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and other sources for the past fifteen years.
Web site: http://w3.arizona.edu/~sphweb/faculty/elena_plante.htm
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