News archive: 2010

December 2010

17 December - P. Hoffman and M.A. Lambon Ralph (in press). "Reverse concreteness effects are not a typical feature of semantic dementia: Evidence for the hub-and-spoke model of conceptual representation." Cerebral Cortex. 

10 December - The following paper has been accepted: P. Hoffman and M. A. Lambon Ralph (submitted). Shapes, scents and sounds: Quantifying the full multi-sensory basis of conceptual knowledge.

9 December - Two papers have been published: Bloch, S. and Wilkinson, R. (2010) Conversation analysis and acquired motor speech disorders in interaction. In: A. Lowit and R.D. Kent (Eds) Assessment of Motor Speech Disorders. Plural: San Diego. (pp. 157-174).

Wilkinson, R. (2010) Interaction-focused intervention: A conversation analytic approach to aphasia therapy. Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders 1; 1; 45-68.

November 2010

26 November - The following paper has been published: Cloutman, L. L., Newhart, M., Davis, C. L., Heidler-Gary, J., and Hillis, A. E. (2011). Neuroanatomical correlates of oral reading in acute left hemispheric stroke. Brain and Language, 116, 14-21.(PDF 645 KB)

17 November - Congratulations to Paul Hoffman, the comparative patient and rTMS study of the LIPFC and semantic processing and cueing has now been published: P.Hoffman, E.Jefferies, and M.A. Lambon Ralph (2010). "Ventrolateral prefrontal cortex plays an executive regulation role in comprehension of abstract words: Convergent neuropsychological and rTMS evidence." Journal of Neuroscience 30, 15450-15456.(PDF 577KB) (doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3783-10.2010)

16 November - The following paper has been accepted: J. Crisp, D. Howard, and M.A. Lambon Ralph (in press). 'More evidence for a continuum between phonological and deep dyslexia: Novel data from three measures of direct orthography-to-phonology translation.' Aphasiology.

11 November - The following paper has just been published: R.Holland and M.A. Lambon Ralph (2010).  "The anterior temporal semantic hub is a part of the language neural network: Selective disruption of irregular past tense verbs by rTMS." Cerbral Cortex, 20, 2771-2775. (PDF 121KB) (doi:10.1093/cercor/bhq020)

10 November - The following paper has just been accepted - Javardi, A; Walsh, V; Lewis, PA (in press) "Off-line Consolidation of Procedural Skill Learning is Enhanced by Negative Emotional Content".  Experimental Brain Research.

1 November - Congratulations to Patti Adank whose paper on accent processing has been accepted to appear in Human Brain Mapping; "The role of Planum Temporale in processing accent variation in spoken language comprehension" P. Adank, M. Noordzij and P. Hagoort

October 2010

29 October - Two papers have just been published:

M.A. Lambon Ralph, L. Cipolotti, F. Manes, and K. Patterson (2010). "Taking both sides: Do unilateral, anterior temporal-lobe lesions disrupt semantic memory?" Brain, 133, 3243-3255.(PDF 809KB)  [doi: 10.1093/brain/awq264]

M.A. Lambon Ralph (2010). "Measuring language recovery in the underlying large-scale neural network: Pulling together in the face of adversity." Annals of Neurology, 68, 570-572. (PDF 51KB)[DOI: 10.1002/ana.22213] an editorial to go with Sharp et al in the same issue. {Increased frontoparietal integration after stroke and cognitive recovery (pages 753-756) David J. Sharp, Federico E. Turkheimer, Subrata K. Bose, Sophie K. Scott and Richard J. S. Wise Article first published online: 9 SEP 2009 | DOI: 10.1002/ana.21866}.  

21 October - The following paper has been accepted: Lewis, PA; Couch, T; Walker, MP (in press). Keeping time in your sleep: Overnight consolidation of temporal Rhythm. Neuropsychologia.

18 October - Congratulations to Paul Hoffman whose latest paper has just been accepted in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

P. Hoffman, T.T. Rogers, and M.A. Lambon Ralph (in press). "Semantic diversity accounts for the "missing" word frequency effect in stroke aphasia: Insights using a novel method to quantify contextual variability in meaning." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

8 October - The following paper has appeared in Cerebral Cortex.  R.J. Binney, K.V. Embleton, E. Jefferies, G.J.M. Parker, and M.A. Lambon Ralph (2010). "The inferolateral aspects of the anterior temporal lobe are crucial in semantic memory: Evidence from a novel direct comparison of distortion-corrected fMRI, rTMS and semantic dementia." Cerebral Cortex 20: 2728-2738. [doi:10.1093/cercor/bhq019] (pdf 485KB)

September 2010

16 September - The following neuroimaging paper has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Neuroscience. Hoffman, P., Jefferies, E. and Lambon Ralph, M.A., (in press). "Ventrolateral prefrontal cortex plays an executive regulation role in comprehension of abstract words: Convergent neuropsychological and rTMS evidence."

6 September - The following paper regarding oral reading has been accepted by Brain and Language: Cloutman, L. L., Newhart, M., Davis, C. L., Heidler-Gary, J., and Hillis, A. E. "Neuroanatomical correlates of oral reading in acute left hemispheric stroke."

5 September - The following paper taken from a PhD thesis has been accepted by Journal of Neuroscience. Tamminen, J., Payne, J.D., Stickgold, R., Wamsley, E.J. and Gaskel, M.G. "Sleep spindle activity is associated with the integration of new memories and existing knowledge"

3 September - The following paper has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. E.J. Mayberry, K. Sage and M.A. Lambon Ralph (in press). "At the edge of semantic space: The breakdown of coherent concepts following anterior temporal lobe atrophy is constrained by typicality and severity but not modality."

August 2010

16 August - The following paper has been accepted for publication in Neuroimage. Moll, J., R. Zahn, R. de Oliveira-Souza, I. E. Bramati, F. Krueger, B. Tura, A. L. Cavanagh and J. Grafman. "Impairment of prosocial sentiments is associated with frontopolar and septal damage in frontotemporal dementia."

10 August - The following paper, written jointly with colleagues in Liverpool, has just been accepted. Powel, L.J.; Lewis, P.A.; Dunbar, R.I.M.; Garcia-Finan, M.; Roberts, N. "Orbital Prefrontal Cortex Volume Correlates with Social Cognitive Competence." Neuropsychologia.

3 August - A paper co-written with an ex-MSc student from UCL, Ashleigh Denman, has been accepted for Disability and Rehabilitation. It's one of the first papers that has moved conversation analytic work beyond aphasia to look at other acquired disorders (Traumatic Brain Injury), and the first to examine the types of inappropriate behaviour, which is a common consequence of this disorder. Denman, A. and Wilkinson, R. (in press) "Applying conversation analysis to traumatic brain injury: Investigating touching another person within everyday social interaction." Disability and Rehabilitation.

2 August - A paper comparing unilateral to bilateral ATL damage has been accepted for publication in Brain. M.A. Lambon Ralph, L. Cipolotti, F. Manes, and K. Patterson (in press). "Taking both sides: Do unilateral, anterior temporal-lobe lesions disrupt semantic memory?"

July 2010

Papers published:

  • 27 July - Wilkinson, R., K. Bryan, S. Lock and K. Sage. (2010) Implementing and evaluating aphasia therapy targeted at couples' conversations: A single case study. Aphasiology 24; 6; 869-886
  • 21 July - Roberts, D.J., M.A. Lambon Ralph and A.M. Woollams (2010). When does less yield more? The impact of severity upon implicit recognition in pure alexia. Neuropsychologia, 48, 2437-2446
  • 10 July - Snell, C., K. Sage and M.A. Lambon Ralph (2010). "How many words should we provide in anomia therapy? A meta-analysis and a case series study." Aphasiology, 24, 1064 -1094 (PDF, 368 KB)

6 July - Congratulations to Patti Adank whose paper "Imitation Improves Language Comprehension" has just been accepted into Psychological Sciences.

April 2010

Papers accepted:

  • Woollams, A., G. Silani, K. Okada, K. Patterson and C. J. Price. (2010) Word or word-like? Dissociating orthographic typicality from lexicality in left occipito-temporal cortex. (Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience)
  • Roberts, D.J., M.A. Lambon Ralph and A.M. Woollams. (2010) When does less yield more? The impact of severity upon implicit recognition in pure alexia. (Neurolpsychologia)

March 2010

Paper accepted:

Patti Adank and Esther Janse (2010). "Comprehension of a novel accent by young and elderly listeners" (Word, 428 KB)

Paper published:

M. Visser, E. Jefferies and M.A. Lambon Ralph (2010). "Semantic processing in the anterior temporal lobes: A meta-analysis of the functional neuroimaging literature." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 1083-1094. (PDF, 324 KB)

February 2010

Papers Accepted:

Published Paper - Wilkinson, R., Beeke, S. and Maxim, J. (2010) Formulating actions and events with limited linguistic resources: Enactment and iconicity in agrammatic aphasic talk. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 43, 1, 57-84.

Award - Beth Jefferies has been awarded the Cortex Prize by the European Federation of Neuropsychological Societies

January 2010

Papers Accepted: