Sentence Comprehension and Its Association with Executive Functions in Patients with Parkinson's Disease

Joint Authors

Leenders, Klaus L.
Koerts, Janneke
Stowe, Laurie A.
Bastiaanse, Roelien
Colman, Katrien S. F.

Source

Parkinson’s Disease

Issue

Vol. 2011, Issue 2011 (31 Dec. 2011), pp.1-15, 15 p.

Publisher

Hindawi Publishing Corporation

Publication Date

2011-10-24

Country of Publication

Egypt

No. of Pages

15

Main Subjects

Diseases
Medicine

Abstract EN

Coexistent impairments in executive functions and language comprehension in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) have been repeatedly observed.

In this study, the aim was to provide insights into the interaction between linguistic representation and processing and executive functioning.

Therefore, sentence comprehension and executive functions were assessed in 28 Dutch-speaking PD patients and 28 healthy control subjects.

Three aspects of the sentence materials were varied: (1) phrase structure complexity, (2) sentence length, and (3) picture congruence.

PD patients with mild-to-moderate disease severity showed decreased sentence comprehension compared to healthy control subjects.

The difficulties encountered by PD patients were not limited to one aspect of the sentence materials.

The same pattern of results was present in healthy control subjects.

Deficits in set-switching were specifically associated with the comprehension of passive sentences.

Generally, our study confirms that there does not appear to be a language faculty encapsulated from the influence of executive functions.

American Psychological Association (APA)

Colman, Katrien S. F.& Koerts, Janneke& Stowe, Laurie A.& Leenders, Klaus L.& Bastiaanse, Roelien. 2011. Sentence Comprehension and Its Association with Executive Functions in Patients with Parkinson's Disease. Parkinson’s Disease،Vol. 2011, no. 2011, pp.1-15.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)

Colman, Katrien S. F.…[et al.]. Sentence Comprehension and Its Association with Executive Functions in Patients with Parkinson's Disease. Parkinson’s Disease No. 2011 (2011), pp.1-15.
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American Medical Association (AMA)

Colman, Katrien S. F.& Koerts, Janneke& Stowe, Laurie A.& Leenders, Klaus L.& Bastiaanse, Roelien. Sentence Comprehension and Its Association with Executive Functions in Patients with Parkinson's Disease. Parkinson’s Disease. 2011. Vol. 2011, no. 2011, pp.1-15.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-991030

Data Type

Journal Articles

Language

English

Notes

Includes bibliographical references

Record ID

BIM-991030