On the parallel deterioration of lexico-semantic processes in the bilinguals’ two languages: Evidence from Alzheimer's disease

TL;DR: It is found that contextual diversity and imageability, but not word frequency (nor words’ number of senses), contributed unique variance to explaining naming impairments in AD, suggesting a semantic component to the naming impairment in AD.

TL;DR: The evidence from the present review provides support for theories emphasizing the role of premorbid proficiency and language use in language impairment patterns in bilingual aphasia and provides a timely update on the increasing number of reported cases in the last decade.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors correlate the results from Norwegian standardized national tests in reading, arithmetic, and English from four cohorts of eighth graders (2009-2012), with available statistics on language of instruction and socio-economic status.

TL;DR: The results provide evidence suggesting that damage to certain subcortical structures may lead to problems in controlling the language output during verbalization in bilingual speakers and are discussed in relation to other findings of pLM and pLS.

TL;DR: Two consecutive treatments were conducted to investigate skill learning and generalization within and across cognitive-linguistic domains in a 62-year-old Spanish-English bilingual man with severe non-fluent aphasia, resulting in modest gains in both Spanish and English.

TL;DR: The results support the inclusion of a language deficit as a diagnostic criterion of Alzheimer's disease and the language disorder exhibited resembled a transcortical sensory aphasia.

TL;DR: FMRI and dynamic causal modeling were used to examine the effects of specific language treatment for picture naming on the representation and control of language areas during the course of recovery and indicated increased connectedness of the control and language networks for the treated language.