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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Loraine Katherine Obler is an American linguist and neuroscientist, internationally recognized as a leading scholar in the field of neurolinguistics and multilingualism. Obler is known for her contributions to understanding how language-related behavior is controlled within the brain. Her research spans diverse sub-disciplines such as the neurolinguistics of bilingualism, language processing in aging and Alzheimer's disease, and the cross-language study of aphasia.
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- Right hemisphere emotional perception: evidence across multiple channels. (1998) (520)
- Empty speech in Alzheimer's disease and fluent aphasia. (1985) (265)
- Agrammatic Aphasia: A Cross-Language Narrative Sourcebook (1989) (239)
- Lexical Retrieval in Healthy Aging (1985) (222)
- The exceptional brain: Neuropsychology of talent and special abilities. (1988) (200)
- Bilingualism Across the Lifespan: Aspects of acquisition, maturity, and loss (1989) (186)
- The Bilingual Brain: Neuropsychological and Neurolinguistic Aspects of Bilingualism. Perspectives in Neurolinguistics and Psycholinguistics. (1978) (169)
- Right hemisphere specialization for the identification of emotional words and sentences: Evidence from stroke patients (1992) (163)
- Narrative strategies of aphasic and normal-speaking subjects. (1980) (153)
- Change in object naming ability during adulthood. (2004) (153)
- Naming ability across the adult life span (1995) (142)
- Auditory comprehension and aging: Decline in syntactic processing (1991) (122)
- Naming Errors in Healthy Aging and Dementia of the Alzheimer Type (1987) (121)
- Aphasia type and aging (1978) (108)
- Relationships among Facial, Prosodic, and Lexical Channels of Emotional Perceptual Processing (2000) (106)
- Semantic Degradation and Lexical Access in Age-Related Naming Failures (2000) (95)
- Shift of visual field preference for English words in native Hebrew speakers (1979) (94)
- Speech monitoring skills in Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and normal aging (1992) (91)
- Noun and verb retrieval in healthy aging (2002) (82)
- Cross-language lexical connections in the mental lexicon: Evidence from a case of trilingual aphasia (2006) (79)
- Language and the brain (1998) (76)
- Change in lexical retrieval skills in adulthood (2007) (71)
- Bilateral brain regions associated with naming in older adults (2010) (70)
- Cerebral lateralization in bilinguals: Methodological issues (1982) (70)
- Ideational and semantic contributions to narrative production in adults with dementia of the Alzheimer's type . (1997) (70)
- The effect of increasing age on the latency for saccadic eye movements. (1983) (66)
- On the Nature of Naming Errors in Aging and Dementia: A Study of Semantic Relatedness (1996) (65)
- The effects of age and gender on the perception of lexical emotion. (1999) (59)
- Verb naming in normal aging. (1999) (57)
- Handedness in Israel (1979) (56)
- Working memory in simultaneous interpreters: Effects of task and age (2012) (55)
- Verbal pragmatics following unilateral stroke: emotional content and valence. (2000) (53)
- Inhibition and auditory comprehension in Wernicke's aphasia (2004) (52)
- Effect of Socioeconomic Status on Aphasia Severity and Recovery (2001) (51)
- Non-Fluent Aphasia in a Multilingual World (1995) (49)
- Effects of language proficiency and language of the environment on aphasia therapy in a multilingual (2012) (46)
- Impact of emotional content on discourse production in patients with unilateral brain damage (1992) (44)
- Language and Brain Dysfunction in Dementia (1983) (43)
- On Comprehension Across the Adult Lifespan (1985) (43)
- The Contribution of Set Switching and Working Memory to Sentence Processing in Older Adults (2011) (42)
- Multilingualism and the Brain (2013) (41)
- Suppression and facilitation of pragmatic performance: effects of emotional content on discourse following right and left brain damage. (1993) (40)
- Semantic verbal fluency in two contrasting languages (2009) (39)
- Emotional versus nonemotional lexical perception in patients with right and left brain damage. (1999) (39)
- Lexical retrieval in discourse: An early indicator of Alzheimer’s dementia (2013) (34)
- Hemispheric specialization for discourse reports of emotional experiences: Relationships to demographic, neurological, and perceptual variables (1996) (34)
- Chapter 20. Cross-language data and theories of agrammatism (1989) (33)
- Changes in cerebral lateralization in aging? (1984) (32)
- Discourse Abilities and Deficits in Multilingual Dementia (1990) (31)
- The relation of aphasia to dementia (1988) (30)
- Neurolinguistic aspects of bilingualism (2002) (30)
- Le langage des déments By luce irigaray. The hague: Mouton, 1973. 357 pp. $45 (1981) (30)
- Effects of Health Status on Word Finding in Aging (2009) (30)
- Dual Processing of Open- and Closed-Class Words (1997) (28)
- Chapter 7 – Naming in Normal Aging and Dementia of the Alzheimer's Type (1997) (27)
- Lexical attrition in younger and older bilingual adults (2008) (26)
- Attentional Modulation of Language Performance (2000) (26)
- The Effect of Plausibility on Sentence Comprehension Among Older Adults and its Relation to Cognitive Functions (2015) (26)
- Discourse Analysis and Applications : Studies in Adult Clinical Populations (2013) (24)
- A preliminary characterization of lexical emotional expression in right and left brain-damaged patients. (1990) (24)
- Using Swahili and English to test explanations of agrammatism (2011) (23)
- Lateralization for Pure Tone Perception as a Function of Age and Sex (1983) (23)
- Agrammatic verb errors in Spanish speakers and their normal discourse correlates (2001) (22)
- Everyday cognition in adulthood and late life: Aging and word retrieval: Naturalistic, clinical, and laboratory data (1989) (22)
- Communication Disorders in Spanish Speakers: Theoretical, Research, and Clinical Aspects (2008) (22)
- Aspects of multilingual aphasia (2012) (21)
- Influence of aging on recovery from aphasia in polyglots (1977) (21)
- Effects of hypertension and diabetes on sentence comprehension in aging. (2013) (20)
- Phonological vs sensory contributions to age effects in naming: An electrophysiological study (2009) (20)
- Tone perception deficits in Chinese-speaking Broca's aphasics (1996) (20)
- Conference interpreting as extreme language use (2012) (20)
- Neurolinguistics and Linguistic Aphasiology: An Introduction. (19)
- Language and communication in the elderly : clinical, therapeutic, and experimental issues (1980) (19)
- 12 – Aging, Language, and Language Disorders (1998) (17)
- Neurobehavior of Language and Cognition (2002) (17)
- Wernicke and Alzheimer on the Language Disturbances of Dementia and Aphasia (1994) (16)
- How older adults use cognition in sentence-final word recognition (2016) (16)
- Acquired Dyslexia in a Biscript Reader Following Traumatic Brain Injury: A Second Case (2002) (16)
- Psychometric Aspects of Verbal Pragmatic Ratings (1999) (15)
- Nonaphasic Misnaming and Other Neurobehavioral Features of an Unusual Toxic Encephalopathy: Case Study (1980) (15)
- Left and right hemispheric contributions to discourse coherence and cohesion. (1996) (15)
- Working memory in simultaneous interpreters (2012) (15)
- Advances in applied psycholinguistics: Language changes in healthy aging and dementia (1987) (15)
- The Phonology–Morphosyntax Interface: Affixed Words in Agrammatism (1999) (15)
- Pragmatic breakdown in patients with left and right brain damage: Clinical implications (1998) (14)
- Effect of Age, Education, and Bilingualism on Confrontation Naming in Older Illiterate and Low-Educated Populations (2014) (14)
- Principles of Bilingualism (2001) (14)
- Effects of Metabolic Syndrome on Language Functions in Aging (2015) (14)
- First language attrition: First language loss in bilingual and polyglot aphasics (1991) (14)
- Stress effects on bilingual language professionals' performance (2006) (13)
- Age-related differences in idiom production in adulthood (2011) (12)
- Language in normal aging: Linguistic and neuropsychological factors (1989) (12)
- Chapter 1. Theoretical motivations for the cross-language study of agrammatism (1989) (12)
- Neurobehavior of language and cognition : studies of normal aging and brain damage : honoring Martin L. Albert (2000) (12)
- Dyslexia in Bilinguals (1984) (11)
- Neurolinguistics of Second Language Acquisition and Use (1996) (11)
- Progression & regression in language: Neurolinguistic aspects of second language development and attrition (1994) (11)
- First Language Grapheme-Phoneme Transparency Effects in Adult Second Language Learning. (2015) (10)
- The Role of Executive Functions in Object- and Action-Naming among Older Adults (2019) (10)
- The complex relationship between pre-stroke and post-stroke language abilities in multilingual individuals with aphasia (2020) (10)
- Findings of the cross-language aphasia study, phase I: Agrammatic narratives (1988) (10)
- Gender and Truthfulness in Daily Life Situations (1998) (9)
- Historical note: Jules Séglas on language in dementia (1985) (8)
- Pragmatically appropriate code-switching in a quadrilingual with Wernicke's aphasia (2004) (8)
- Executive control mechanisms in bilingualism: Beyond speed of processing* (2016) (8)
- Semantic and lexical features of words dissimilarly affected by non-fluent, logopenic, and semantic primary progressive aphasia (2019) (7)
- 1. The Study of Bilingual Aphasia: The Questions Addressed (2012) (7)
- Bilingualism Across the Lifespan: Bilingualism across the lifespan: an introduction (1989) (7)
- Classification of Normal Reading Error Types (1995) (7)
- Special talents in Geschwind's and Galaburda's theory of cerebral lateralization: an examination in a female population. (1994) (7)
- Demographic Effects on Longitudinal Semantic Processing, Working Memory, and Cognitive Speed (2020) (7)
- Levels of Abstractness in Semantic Noun and Verb Processing: The Role of Sensory-Perceptual and Sensory-Motor Information (2019) (7)
- Language and Aging (1995) (6)
- Noun phrase production by agrammatic patients: A cross-linguistic approach (1996) (6)
- Measuring treatment outcome in severe Wernicke’s aphasia (2020) (6)
- 12. Root-morpheme processing during word recognition in Hebrew speakers across the adult life span (2003) (6)
- Agrammatism — The current issues (1988) (5)
- Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie (2012) (5)
- 8. Language Deficits, Recovery Patterns and Effective Intervention in a Multilingual 16 Years Post-TBI (2012) (5)
- Aging in Bilinguals: Normal and Abnormal (2017) (5)
- KNOWLEDGE IN NEUROLINGUISTICS: THE CASE OF BILINGUALISM (1984) (5)
- Doghouse/Chien-maison/Niche: Approaches to the understanding of compound processing in bilinguals (2007) (5)
- Bilingualism Across the Lifespan: Index (1989) (5)
- Language and the Brain. Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics. (1999) (5)
- Length of residence: Does it make a difference in older bilinguals? (2016) (5)
- Primary Progressive Aphasia in Bilinguals and Multilinguals (2019) (4)
- Losing a first language to a second language (2015) (4)
- Variability in Aphasia Research: Aphasia Subject Selection in Group Studies (1995) (4)
- Morphological vs. phonological explanations for affix errors in agrammatism (2017) (3)
- Neurolinguistic Perspectives on Mother Tongue : Evidence from Aphasia and Brain Imaging (1999) (3)
- Idiom properties influencing idiom production in younger and older adults (2014) (3)
- LINGUISTICS AND APHASIA: PSYCHOLINGUISTIC AND PRAGMATIC ASPECTS OF INTERVENTION. Ruth Lesser and Lesley Milroy. London: Longman, 1993. Pp. xiii + 377. $26.95 paper. (1994) (3)
- Neurolinguistics and Parameter Setting (1988) (3)
- The importance of verb form-regularity in agrammatism (2007) (3)
- Frequency and Word-Length Factors and Lexical Retrieval in Sentence Production in Aphasia (2010) (3)
- Rehabilitating an attrited language in a bilingual person with aphasia (2022) (3)
- Ageing as a Confound in Language Attrition Research (2019) (3)
- The effects of normal aging on speech, language, and communication (1986) (3)
- CHAPTER 26 – Language and Communication in Aging (2008) (3)
- Bias in Visual Attention Behavior in a Normal School-Aged Population (2002) (3)
- Brain, Language, and Environment (2000) (3)
- Reflexes of the Classical Arabic say?un 'thing' in the modern dialects : a study in patterns of language change (1975) (3)
- Language Decline in Aging (1989) (2)
- Multilingualism and Aphasia (2012) (2)
- Language Changes Associated with Aging (2010) (2)
- Bilingualism Across the Lifespan: The boustrophedal brain: laterality and dyslexia in bi-directional readers (1989) (2)
- Brain-based Challenges of Second Language Learning in Older Adulthood (2019) (2)
- 6. Bilingual and Polyglot Aphasia (1995) (2)
- Speech-Language Pathologists (SLP) Treatment Methods and Approaches for Alzheimer's Dementia (2016) (2)
- Strengthening the semantic verb network in multilingual people with aphasia: within- and cross-language treatment effects* (2022) (2)
- THE ASSESSMENT OF BILINGUAL APHASIA. Michel Paradi Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1987. Pp. 241. (1991) (2)
- The effect of second-language vocabulary on word retrieval in the native language (2020) (2)
- Chapter 2. Methodology: Data collection, presentation, and guide to interpretation (1989) (2)
- Effects of inhibition on naming in aging (2018) (1)
- Hebrew Orthography and Dyslexia — A Note (1989) (1)
- Chapter 18. Cross-linguistic Aspects of Dyslexia in Spanish–English Bilinguals (2007) (1)
- The adaptation of native language construal patterns in second language acquisition (2014) (1)
- Object and Action Processing in Alzheimer's Disease: The Embodied View of Cognition (2012) (1)
- Chapter 7. Interference control in bilingual auditory sentence processing in noise (2019) (1)
- Bilingual Aphasia: Theoretical and Clinical Considerations (2012) (1)
- Electrophysiological evidence of lexical access disruptions (2007) (1)
- Agrammatics’ sensitivity to inflectional optionality (2007) (1)
- What Do We Know about Impairment and Recovery of Language in Bi-Multilingual Aphasia? (2011) (1)
- Language-Mixing in Multilingual Aphasia Helps Functional Communication (2012) (1)
- Comprehension in Older Adult Populations: Healthy Aging, Aphasia, and Dementia (2017) (1)
- Semantic subcategories of nouns and verbs: A neurolinguistic review on healthy adults and patients with Alzheimer’s disease (2015) (1)
- Hyphens for disambiguating phrases: effectiveness for young and older adults (2012) (1)
- Interpreting work buffers against aging? Reporting on the AIIC Lifespan Study (2011) (1)
- Agrammatism: A Cross-Linguistic Clinical Perspective (2005) (1)
- 16. A Case Study of a Bidialectal (African-American Vernacular English/Standard American English) Speaker with Agrammatism (2012) (1)
- Classificatory Structuralism in Medieval Arabic Grammars (1980) (0)
- Abbreviations and Conventions (1995) (0)
- Hemispheric processing of vocal emblem sounds (2013) (0)
- Semantic subcategories of nouns and verbs (2015) (0)
- 1.5. Linguistics and aphasia (1995) (0)
- 5.4. Differences in degree of disturbance of writing and speech (1995) (0)
- The neuropsychological status of Swedish-English subsidiary bilinguals . Gunnar Bergh. Goeteborg, Sweden: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 1986. Pp. vi + 225. (1988) (0)
- The Great Neurolinguistics Methodology Debate. (1985) (0)
- 4.2. Major grammatical phenomena (1995) (0)
- Neurolinguistics of Spanish: Agrammatism and verbregularity (2007) (0)
- 3. Basic Properties of Agrammatic Narratives (1995) (0)
- 3.5. Comparing elicitation materials (1995) (0)
- 2.2. Grammar across the world's languages (1995) (0)
- 42. Brain and language in healthy aging (2018) (0)
- Early cross-language discussion of agrammatism (1996) (0)
- 1.2. The types of patients that the book is based on (1995) (0)
- 3.2. How do we know what is normal (1995) (0)
- Volume contents (1988) (0)
- 4.3. Consequences and contrasts (1995) (0)
- Focusing Our Attention on Socially Responsive Professional Education to Serve Ethnogeriatric Populations With Neurogenic Communication Disorders in the United States. (2023) (0)
- 2.6. How to read and use an interlinear morphemic transcription (1995) (0)
- 6.1. Introduction (1995) (0)
- 6.2. Parallel and differential deficits (1995) (0)
- 2.3. Typology and terminology (1995) (0)
- 7.1. Introduction (1995) (0)
- Language therapy effects on the treated and untreated languages of a multilingual person with aphasia (2009) (0)
- Overuse of Contractible Copula in Patients with Agrammatic Aphasia (2017) (0)
- 3.3. Getting patients to talk (1995) (0)
- Dorian, Nancy C. (b. 1936) (2006) (0)
- 6.6. Implications for diagnosis (1995) (0)
- Verb-form regularity and tense-aspect frequency facilitate copula verb production in Spanish agrammatism (2009) (0)
- Classificatory Structuralism in Medieval Arabic Grammars: az-Zajjāji's 10th-century ‘The Sentence’ (1980) (0)
- C. Clinical Resources (1995) (0)
- Longitudinal Study of Recovery from Aphasia: The Case of Lexical Retrieval (2012) (0)
- The Impact of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on the Language Production of Healthy Adults and Individuals With Alzheimer's Disease (2016) (0)
- 7.2. Treatment for agrammatism (1995) (0)
- 2.5. Reasoning from linguistic typology (1995) (0)
- Chapter 4. Length of residence (2017) (0)
- Language and aging: Evidence from monolingual and multilingual speakers (2006) (0)
- Idioms and aging: Research and theory (2005) (0)
- 1.3. Additional sources of information (1995) (0)
- Another Type of Bilingual Advantage? Tense-Mood-Aspect Frequency, Verb-Form Regularity and Context-Governed Choice in Bilingual vs. Monolingual Spanish Speakers with Agrammatism (2014) (0)
- Insights into lexical-semantic processing from not only semantic but also non-fluent and logopenic primary progressive aphasia. (2017) (0)
- 3.6. Potential intercultural problems (1995) (0)
- Papers to Appear in Forthcoming Issues (2001) (0)
- How We Know What We Know about Brain Organization for Language* (2020) (0)
- 3.4. General properties of agrammatic narratives (1995) (0)
- B. Language Families (1995) (0)
- Bilingualism Across the Lifespan: Preface (1989) (0)
- Studying Multilingualism and Group Differences in Adult Communication (2010) (0)
- 6.3. Causes for differential recovery (1995) (0)
- 6.4. Special bilingual behaviors (1995) (0)
- Factors Underlying Comprehension of Accented English (2002) (0)
- Foreword by Michel Paradis (1995) (0)
- Language talent and brain activity (review) (2011) (0)
- 17. Multilingual Language Processing and the Multilingual Brain (2019) (0)
- Language processing in bilingual children. Ellen Bialystok. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. 238. (1993) (0)
- Levels of Abstractness in Semantic Noun and Verb Processing: The Role of Sensory-Perceptual and Sensory-Motor Information (2019) (0)
- Marie's Quadrilateral vs. Broca's Area: Aphasiological History Reconsidered (2011) (0)
- Verb-form regularity and tense-aspect frequency in bilingual Spanish-speakers with agrammatism (2009) (0)
- The Expression of Pragmatic Intentions in Adults With Mental Retardation During Instructional Discourse (2013) (0)
- LANGUAGE PROCESSING IN THE BRAIN: AN EMERGING FRONTIER IN BILINGUAL RESEARCH (2016) (0)
- 3.7. Chapter summary (1995) (0)
- Idioms in the mental lexicon: Evidence from idiom production of younger and older adults (2006) (0)
- Hyphens for disambiguating phrases: effectiveness for young and older adults (2011) (0)
- Learn a New Language, Get a New Soul. (1983) (0)
- In appreciation and recognition (1987) (0)
- Age related differences in strategies for idiom production (2007) (0)
- 1.4. The plan of the book (1995) (0)
- Chapter 4. Length of residence: Does it make a difference in older bilinguals? (2017) (0)
- 5.3. Disturbances in reading aloud (1995) (0)
- 6.5. Brain organization for bilingualism (1995) (0)
- 7.3. Some concluding comments (1995) (0)
- Agrammatic Aphasia in a Bidialectal/Bilingual Speaker of Caribbean English Creole and Standard English (2018) (0)
- Reply: Language in Dementia: Agreement? (1988) (0)
- Chapter Ten. Phonological Encoding In Healthy Aging: Electrophysiological Evidence (2011) (0)
- 4. The Grammar of Connected Agrammatic Speech (1995) (0)
- 1.1. The purpose of this book (1995) (0)
- 2.1. Introduction (1995) (0)
- 4.1. Introduction (1995) (0)
- Plus ca Change... (1984) (0)
- Lecture 10: The Neurolinguistics of Multilingualism (2018) (0)
- Book review (1996) (0)
- Andresen : With Bilingual Eyes : The conceptualization of motion events in bilingual children (2018) (0)
- Aphasiology, Volume 28, List of Reviewers (2014) (0)
- 2. Describing and Comparing Languages (1995) (0)
- List of Excerpts (1995) (0)
- A. Foreign Accents (Non-native Phonetics) and Dysarthria (1995) (0)
- South and Southeast Asian Psycholinguistics: Aphasia to imaging: the neurolinguistic endeavor as it reflects on South and Southeast Asian languages (2013) (0)
- Studies in first and second language acquisition . Fred R. Eckman & Ashley J. Hastings (Eds.). Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House Publishers Inc., 1979. Pp. xv + 256. (1981) (0)
- 5. Speech, Writing, and Oral Reading (1995) (0)
- Agrammatism: A global perspective (2004) (0)
- 5.2. Disturbances in spontaneous writing (1995) (0)
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