Verbal learning
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Vocabulary training in healthy persons to mimic aphasia
07/2011-12/2013 Verbal learning
In this project at RWTH Aachen University we
investigated verbal learning in a group of healthy speakers and single cases
with schizophrenia. Performance was assessed before, during and after acquisition
of new vocabulary by means of behavioural and fMRI measures. The training was
based on established procedures from aphasia therapy, in order to mimic the
lexical confusion and therapeutic remediation in aphasia and therefore to
better understand their condition. The method of vanishing cues was for the
first time used in healthy speakers and persons with schizophrenia and neural
correlates were successfully revealed. The project was funded by the Medical
Faculty of the RWTH Aachen University (START, 28/11).
The approach to verbal learning was followed up at the University of Manchester (see Neuroscience-based therapy of word finding).
Publications/cooperators.
- Tunkel, M., Fein, S., Pohl, A., Habel, U., Willmes, K., & Abel, S. (2014). Verbales Lernen bei Aphasie und Schizophrenie – eine kombinierte Verhaltens- und fMRT-Studie. Sprache, Stimme, Gehör, 38, Suppl. 1, e4-e6. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0034-1369975
- Pohl, A.,
Meyer, C.M., Deckers, A., Eckmann, T., Barthel, J., Huber, W., Habel, U., Willmes,
K. & Abel, S. (2017). Training-related changes of brain activation during speech production in
healthy speakers – a longitudinal fMRI study. Aphasiology, 31 (5), 495-518. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2016.1206652