Effects of familiarity, context, and abstract representations on idiom processing in aphasia

People with aphasia (PWA) often have impaired idiom processing. This could result from difficulty suppressing the literal meaning (Cacciari et al., 2006; Papagno et al., 2004). Supporting this, in an idiom-probe matching task in which PWA had to choose which of four probe words went best with famili...

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Main Authors: Evelyn Arko Milburn, Michael Walsh Dickey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/conf.fpsyg.2015.65.00005/full