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More Than Words: Extra-Sylvian Neuroanatomic Networks Support Indirect Speech Act Comprehension and Discourse in Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia
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In: Front Hum Neurosci (2021)
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Indirect speech acts—responding “I forgot to wear my watch today” to someone who asked for the time—are ubiquitous in daily conversation, but are understudied in current neurobiological models of language. To comprehend an indirect speech act like this one, listeners must not only decode the lexical-semantic content of the utterance, but also make a pragmatic, bridging inference. This inference allows listeners to derive the speaker’s true, intended meaning—in the above dialog, for example, that the speaker cannot provide the time. In the present work, we address this major gap by asking non-aphasic patients with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD, n = 21) and brain-damaged controls with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI, n = 17) to judge simple question-answer dialogs of the form: “Do you want some cake for dessert?” “I’m on a very strict diet right now,” and relate the results to structural and diffusion MRI. Accuracy and reaction time results demonstrate that subjects with bvFTD, but not MCI, are selectively impaired in indirect relative to direct speech act comprehension, due in part to their social and executive limitations, and performance is related to caregivers’ judgment of communication efficacy. MRI imaging associates the observed impairment in bvFTD to cortical thinning not only in traditional language-associated regions, but also in fronto-parietal regions implicated in social and executive cerebral networks. Finally, diffusion tensor imaging analyses implicate white matter tracts in both dorsal and ventral projection streams, including superior longitudinal fasciculus, frontal aslant, and uncinate fasciculus. These results have strong implications for updated neurobiological models of language, and emphasize a core, language-mediated social disorder in patients with bvFTD.
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URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7842266/
https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2020.598131
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Digital Speech Analysis in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy and Corticobasal Syndromes
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In: J Alzheimers Dis (2021)
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Automated analysis of lexical features in Frontotemporal Degeneration
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In: Cortex (2021)
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Automated analysis of natural speech in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis spectrum disorders
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In: Neurology (2020)
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Automated analysis of lexical features in Frontotemporal Degeneration
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In: medRxiv (2020)
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Clinical Correlates of Alzheimer's Disease Cerebrospinal Fluid Analytes in Primary Progressive Aphasia
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A Longitudinal Study of Speech Production in Primary Progressive Aphasia and Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia
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In: Brain Lang (2019)
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Longitudinal progression of grey matter atrophy in non-amnestic Alzheimer’s disease
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In: Brain (2019)
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Validated automatic speech biomarkers in primary progressive aphasia
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PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA AND STROKE APHASIA
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In: Continuum (Minneap Minn) (2018)
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Prevalence of Amyloid-β Pathology in Distinct Variants of Primary Progressive Aphasia
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Prevalence of amyloid-β pathology in distinct variants of primary progressive aphasia: Amyloid-β Pathology in PPA
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In: Annals of Neurology. - 84, 5 (2018) , 729-740, ISSN: 0364-5134 (2018)
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Clinical marker for Alzheimer disease pathology in logopenic primary progressive aphasia
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Tau PET Imaging Predicts Cognition in Atypical Variants of Alzheimer’s Disease
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Neocortical Origin and Progression of Grey Matter Atrophy In Non-Amnestic Alzheimer’s Disease
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Neural Correlates of Verbal Episodic Memory and Lexical Retrieval in Logopenic Variant Primary Progressive Aphasia
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Longitudinal decline in speech production in Parkinson's disease spectrum disorders
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Dissociation of Quantifiers and Object Nouns in Speech in Focal Neurodegenerative Disease
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Dissociable substrates underlie the production of abstract and concrete nouns
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Beyond words: Pragmatic inference in behavioral variant of frontotemporal degeneration
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