Word Association of Time-Altered Auditory and Sual Stimuli in Aphasia

No AccessJournal of Speech, Language, and Hearing ResearchResearch Article1 Jun 1981Word Association of Time-Altered Auditory and Sual Stimuli in Aphasiais corrected byWord Association of Time-Altered Auditory and Visual Stimuli in Aphasia Robert Goldfarb, and Harvey Halpern Robert Goldfarb City University of New York, New York Google Scholar More articles by this author and Harvey Halpern City University of New York, New York Google Scholar More articles by this author https://doi.org/10.1044/jshr.2402.233 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In A word association test was administered to a group of 32 aphasic adults and to a control group of 32 normal adults similar in age, sex, and education. Word stimuli were balanced according to frequency of occurrence in written English language usage (frequent, infrequent), word length (short, long), abstraction level (low, medium, high), and grammatical class (noun, verb, adjective). Stimuli were presented auditorily at normal speed (equivalent to 10 phonemes per sec) and at half speed (equivalent to 5 phonemes per sec) speech. When word stimuli were presented at half speed (slower), the aphasic adults but not the controls produced significantly more paradigmatic (same grammatical class) responses. Twenty aphasic subjects and twenty controls supplied association responses to words presented tachistoscopically at fixation speed (equivalent to 250 msec) and at sweep speed (equivalent to 10 msec). When word stimuli were shown for a longer time, the aphasic adults but not the controls produced significantly more paradigmatic responses. Also analyzed were paradigmatic responses to the word association test produced in relation to frequency of occurrence, word length, levels of word abstraction, and grammatical class. Additional Resources FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsRelated articlesWord Association of Time-Altered Auditory and Visual Stimuli in Aphasia Volume 24Issue 2June 1981Pages: 233-246 Get Permissions Add to your Mendeley library HistoryReceived: May 16, 1979Accepted: May 30, 1980 Published in issue: Jun 1, 1981 Metrics Topicsasha-topicsasha-article-typesCopyright & PermissionsCopyright © 1981 American Speech-Language-Hearing AssociationPDF downloadLoading ...