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SUBMITTER: Dresang HC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7876333 | biostudies-literature | 2021
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dresang Haley C HC Warren Tessa T Hula William D WD Dickey Michael Walsh MW
Frontiers in psychology 20210128
The information theoretic principle of rational adaptation predicts that individuals with aphasia adapt to their language impairments by relying more heavily on comparatively unimpaired non-linguistic knowledge to communicate. This prediction was examined by assessing the extent to which adults with chronic aphasia due to left-hemisphere stroke rely more on conceptual rather than lexical information during verb retrieval, as compared to age-matched neurotypical controls. A primed verb naming tas ...[more]