Developing a Test of Lexical Processing in Aphasia (TLPA). An analysis of lexical deficits in aphasic patients.

Okudaira Naoko, Monoi Hisako

doi:10.2496/apr.20.234

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失語症語い検査の開発　　失語症患者の症状解析を中心に

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A Test of Lexical Processing in Aphasia (TLPA) was developed by the Japan Logopedics and Phoniatrics Association Committee on Speech and Language : Subcommittee on Aphasia. It forms the core of a battery that has been developed to the present. It consists of lexical decision tests (visual and auditory), noun and verb tests (naming and comprehension), synonym judgment tests (visual and auditory), and a test of nouns in ten semantic categories (naming and comprehension). The TLPA is designed to assess closely the performance of lexical processing in patients with brain damage. We have already reported its outline and the performance of 50 non-brain-damaged normal subjects.<br> In this paper, lexical deficits in aphasic patients were analyzed with TLPA. In result, (1) the dissociation in functions of processing phonology, orthography and meaning, (2) specificity of naming and comprehension in semantic categories in nouns, (3) and specificity in grammatical classes of word (nouns and verbs) were verified. TLPA should be a valuable resource for analyzing characteristics and underlying mechanisms of lexical deficits in aphasic patients, planning their treatment programs and measuring efficacy of the treatment.

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Higher Brain Function Research

Higher Brain Function Research 20 (3), 234-243, 2000

Japanese Society of Aphasiology (Renamed as Japan Society for Higher Brain Function)

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CRID: 1390001204761303552

NII Article ID: 130004893121

DOI: 10.2496/apr.20.234

ISSN: 18806716; 02859513

Text Lang: ja

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