News
January 2012
5th January : The following paper (the first of 2012) has been published in NeuroImage. "The variation of function across the human insula mirrors its patterns of structural connectivity: Evidence from in vivo probabilistic tractography." (986 KB pdf). L. L. Coutman, R. J. Binney, M. Drakesmith, G.J.M. Parker and M. A. Lambon Ralph. NeuroImage, 59, 3514-3521. [doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.11.016]
7th January : The following paper has been published in Aphasiology. "Repetition priming of picture naming in semantic aphasia: the impact of intervening items." (289.6 KB pdf). M. Soni, M. A. Lambon Ralph and A. M. Woollams. Aphasiology, 26, 44-63. [doi:10.1080/02687038.2011.602302]
7th January : Also in Aphasiology "Facilitating and disrupting speech perception in word deafness." (230.9 KB pdf).H. Robson, S. Davies, M. A. Lambon Ralph and K Sage. Aphasiology, 26, 177-198. [doi:10.1080/02687038.2011.629360].
7th January : And in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience "Executive-semantic processing is underpinned by a large-scale neural network: Revealing the contribution of left prefrontal, posterior temporal and parietal cortex to controlled retrieval and selection using TMS." (354 KB pdf). C. Whitney, M. Kirk, J. O'Sullivan, M. A. Lambon Ralph and E. Jeffries. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24, 133-147. [doi:10.1162/jocn_a_00123].
8th January : Well done to all involved in getting this paper into such a prestigious rehabilitation outlet. "Using phonemic cueing of spontaneous naming to predict item responsiveness to therapy for aphasic word-finding difficulties: Results from a case-series of 22 patients with stroke aphasia." (266 KB pdf). P. Conroy, C. Snell, K. Sage and M. A. Lambon Ralph. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 93, S53-S60 [doi:10.1016/j.apmr.2011.07.205].
10th January : This paper has now appeared. "Unpicking the semantic impairment in Alzheimer's disease: qualitative changes with disease severity." (235 KB pdf). F. Corbett, I. Jefferies, A. Burns and M. a. Lambon Ralph. Behavioural Neurology, 25, 23-34 [doi: 10>3233/BEN-2012-0346].
13th January :“Revealing and quantifying the impaired phonological analysis underpinning impaired comprehension in Wernicke’s aphasia: Finding Blumstein’s missing link.” (1.06 MB pdf). H. Robson, J. Keidel, M.A. Lambon Ralph, & K. Sage. Neuropsychologia, 50, 276–288. [doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.11.022].
13th January : “Wernicke’s aphasia reflects a combination of acoustic-phonological and semantic control deficits.” (666 KB Pdf). H. Robson, K. Sage, & M.A. Lambon Ralph. Neuropsychologia, 50, 266–275. [doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.11.02]
26th January : "Arcuate fasciculus variability and repetition: The left sometimes can be right." (1.29 MB pdf). M. L. Berthier, M. A. Lambon Ralph, J. Pujol and C. Green.Cortex, 48, 133-143. [doi: 10.1016/j.cortex. 2011.06.014].
30th January : "Semantic memory is impaired in patients with unilateral anterior temporal lobe resection for temporal lobe epilepsy." (692 KB Pdf). M. A. Lambon Ralph, S. Ehsan, G. A. Baker and T. T. Rogers. Brain, 135, 242-258. [doi: 10.1093/brain/awr325].
December 2011
9th December : The following two papers have appeared in a special issue arising from the last WFN Language-Cognition Meeting. "Gogi aphasia: The early description of semantic dementia in Japan." (255 KB pfd). M. Ikeda, I. Kitamura, N. Ichimi, M. Hashimoto, M. A. Lambon Ralph and K. Komori. Acta Neuropsychologica, 9, 133-140
9th December : "El-La: The impact of degraded semantic representations on knowledge of grammatical gender in semantic dementia." (512 KB pdf). M. A. Lambon Ralph, K. sage, C. Green Heredia, M. L. Berthier, M. Martinez-Cuitino, T. Torralva, F. Manes and K. Patterson. Acta Neuropsychologica, 9, 115-132.
21st December : This paper has appeared. "Premorbid expertise produces category-specific impairment in a domain-general semantic disorder." E. Jefferies, T. T. Rogers and M. A. Lambon Ralph. (640.2 KB pdf). Neuropsychologia, 49, 3213-3223 [doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia. 2011.07.024].
November 2011
29th November : This long awaited and important paper has appeared. "The role of plasticity-related functional reorganisation in the explanation of central dyslexias." (850 KB pdf). S. R. Welbourne, A. M. Woollams, J. Crisp and M. A. Lambon Ralph. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 28, 65-108. [doi: 10.1080/02643294.2011.621937].
October 2011
24th October : This paper has appeared. "Lichtheim 2: Synthesising aphasia and the neural basis of language in a neurocomputational model of the dual dorsal-ventral language pathways." (1.70 MB pdf). T. Ueno, S. Saito, T. T. Rogers and M. A. Lambon Ralph. Neuron, 72, 385-396 [doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.09.013].
24th October : (In Press) This paper has been accepted for publication. "Semantic Memory is impaired in patients with unilateral anterior temporal lobe resection for temporal lobe epilepsy." (550 KB pdf). M. A. Lambon Ralph, S. Ehsan, G. A. Baker and T. T. Rogers (in press). Brain
31st October : This paper has now appeared. "Relearning in semantic dementia reflects contributions from both medial temporal lobe episodic and degraded neocortical semantic systems: Evidence in support of the complementary learning systems theory." (738 KB pdf). E. J. Mayberry, K. sage, S. Ehsan and M. A. Lambon Ralph. Neuropsychologia, 49, 3591-3598. [doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia. 2011.09.010].
September 2011
30 September : The following paper has been published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. "Differential contributions of the ventral anterior temporal lobe and the anterior superior temporal gyrus to semantic processes." (493 KB pdf). M. Visser and M. A. Lambon Ralph.
August 2011
13 August: The following paper has been published. Congratulations to Paul Hoffman. "Reverse concreteness effects are not a typical feature of semantic dementia : Evidence for the hub-and-spoke model of conceptual representation." (348 KB pdf) Cerebral Cortex. P. Hoffman & M. A. Lambon Ralph.
July 2011
9 July: The following papers have been published. Congratulations to Paul Hoffman. "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. P. Hoffman, T.T. Rogers, & M.A. Lambon Ralph.
And also
"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." (732KB Pdf). Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. E.J. Mayberry, K. Sage, & M.A. Lambon Ralph.
May 2011
19 May: The following paper has just been accepted: Ventromedial prefrontal volume predicts understanding of others and social network size. NeuroImage. Lewis, PA; Rezaie, R; Brown, R; Roberts, N; Dunbar, RIM.
March 2011
16 March: The following paper has just been published: "The role of planum temporale in processing accent variation in spoken language comprehension" (292KB PDF) Human Brain Mapping's by Patti Adank, Matthijs Noordzij and Peter Hagoort.
February 2011
4 February: The following paper has now been published: F. Corbett, E. Jefferies, & M.A. Lambon Ralph (2011). "Deregulated semantic cognition follows prefrontal and temporoparietal damage: Evidence from the impact of task constraint on non-verbal object use." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 1125-1135.(287KB) [doi:10.1162/jocn.2010.21539]
Also, well done to Paul Hoffman who has had two papers published:
P. Hoffman, E. Jefferies, & M.A. Lambon Ralph (2011). "Explaining semantic short-term memory deficits: Evidence for the critical role of semantic control." Neuropsychologia, 49, 368-381. (416KB PDF) [doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.12.034]
and
P. Hoffman, E. Jefferies, & M.A. Lambon Ralph (2011). "Remembering 'zeal' but not 'thing': Reverse frequency effects as a consequence of deregulated semantic processing." Neuropsychologia, 49, 580-584. (211KB PDF)[doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.12.036]
3 February: Congratulations to Scott Cairney, who has just submitted the first paper from his PhD entitled, 'Sleep and environmental context: Interactive effects for memory'.
January 2011
27 January - The following paper has been accepted: M. Soni, M.A. Lambon Ralph and A.M. Woollams (2011). "'W' is for bath: Can associative errors be cued?" Journal of Neurolinguistics.
20 January - K. Sage, C. Snell and M.A. Lambon Ralph (2011). "How intensive does aphasia therapy need to be?" Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 21, 26-41. (PDF 344KB)
11 January - R. Ishibashi, M.A. Lambon Ralph, S. Saito, and G. Pobric (in press). "Different roles of lateral anterior temporal lobe and inferior parietal lobule in coding function and manipulation tool knowledge: Evidence from an rTMS study." Neuropsychologia.
7 January - M. Visser and M.A. Lambon Ralph (in press). "Differential contributions of the ventral anterior temporal lobe and the anterior superior temporal gyrus to semantic processes." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.