Schumacher, Rahel Cazzoli, Dario Eggenberger, Noëmi Preisig, Basil Nef, Tobias Nyffeler, Thomas Gutbrod, Klemens Annoni, Jean-Marie Müri, René M. 2015-11-12 We aimed at further elucidating whether aphasic patients’ difficulties in understanding non-canonical sentence structures, such as Passive or Object-Verb-Subject sentences, can be attributed to impaired morphosyntactic cue recognition, and to problems in integrating competing interpretations.Methods: A sentence-picture matching task with canonical and non-canonical spoken sentences was performed using concurrent eye tracking. Accuracy, reaction time, and eye tracking data (fixations) of 50 healthy subjects and 12 aphasic patients were analysed.Results: Patients showed increased error rates and reaction times, as well as delayed fixation preferences for target pictures in non-canonical sentences. Patients’ fixation patterns differed from healthy controls and revealed deficits in recognizing and immediately integrating morphosyntactic cues.Conclusion: Our study corroborates the notion that difficulties in understanding syntactically complex sentences are attributable to a processing deficit encompassing delayed and therefore impaired recognition and integration of cues, as well as increased competition between interpretations. application/pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/304661 https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/304661/files/ann_cri.pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0142853 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined PLoS ONE. - 2015, vol. 10, no. 11, p. e0142853 info:eu-repo/classification/udc/61 Cue recognition and integration – eye tracking evidence of processing differences in sentence comprehension in aphasia http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501