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“Training Impaired Grammar” – a Serious Game for Agrammatism Treatment
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Agrammatism is a common symptom occurring in post-stroke aphasia and frequently addressed in traditional language therapy. However, most commercial serious games and mHealth applications aimed at independent aphasia treatment include only few, if any, tasks focusing on morphosyntax. “Training Impaired Grammar” (TIGr) is a project which attempts to fill the existing gap for Russian speakers with aphasia. The app is going to cover eight areas of morphosyntax, including sentence structure, verb retrieval and various types of verbal and nominal inflection. Besides, it is going to be adaptable, i.e. each of these areas is going to be subdivided into four difficulty levels. Importantly, TIGr is planned to capture the users’ attention and strengthen their motivation with a narrative framework and a reward system, which only rarely can be found in apps for aphasia treatment. The game is currently under development: the stimuli and distractors are being piloted, and the details of the plotline and design are being elaborated.
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Varnavsky A., IEEE Access 2026 Vol. 14 P. 37487–37508
Puzzles are an excellent tool for learning computer science and programming, fostering increased interest, engagement, and motivation among students, as well as developing logical, critical, and computational thinking. Among beginner programmers, Parson's Programming Puzzles are quite popular, aimed at mastering the basic syntactic and logical constructs of programming languages. However, as students' skills grow, their ...
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Khudyakova Mariya, Antonova Natalia, Nelubina Maria et al., Bakhtiniana 2023 Vol. 18 No. 1 P. 30–53
Discourse Diversity Database (3D) is a corpus designed for clinical linguistics research. It consists of oral speech samples of three different genres: picture-elicited narratives, personal stories, and picture-based instructions. The sub-sections of 3D include recordings by Russian speakers from three independent groups: people with brain tumors before and after tumor removal, people with schizophrenia, and neurologically ...
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Kirichenko Vladislav V., Галактика медиа: журнал медиа исследований 2019 № 1 (4) С. 130–152
This paper is devoted to the analysis of the specifics of historical reflection in computer games. The author shows how games can accumulate history, reflect on it, transform it for the sake of game conventions, and also change cultural memory in some way. Gameful historiography is sometimes associated with the concepts of "edutainment" and "serious ...
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Vadinova V., Buivolova O., Dragoy O. et al., Neuropsychologia 2020 Vol. 147 Article 107591
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Implicit-statistical learning (ISL) research investigates whether domain-general mechanisms are recruited in the linguistic processes that require manipulation of patterned regularities (e.g. syntax). Aphasia is a language disorder caused by focal brain damage in the left fronto-temporal-parietal network. Research shows that people with aphasia (PWA) with frontal lobe lesions manifest convergent deficits in syntax and ISL mechanisms. ...
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Rosenbech Nielsen S., Boye K., Bastiaanse R. et al., Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 2019 Vol. 34 No. 8 P. 1027–1040
Determiner production is a testing ground for theories of Broca’s aphasia and agrammatic speech. On one type of theory, determiner production is impaired in so far as determiners are grammatical items. On another type of theory, determiner production is impaired because determiners depend on verbs for case-assignment. These two types of theories are mutually compatible, ...
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Cortical and structural-connectivity damage correlated with impaired syntactic processing in aphasia
Den Ouden D., Malyutina S., Basilakos A. et al., Human Brain Mapping 2019 Vol. 40 No. 7 P. 2153–2173
Agrammatism in aphasia is not a homogeneous syndrome, but a characterization of a nonuniform set
of language behaviors in which grammatical markers and complex syntactic structures are omitted,
simplified, or misinterpreted. In a sample of 71 left-hemisphere stroke survivors, syntactic processing
was quantifiedwith theNorthwestern Assessment of Verbs and Sentences (NAVS). Classification analyses
were used to assess the relation between ...
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Keulen S., Verhoeven J., Bastiaanse R. et al., Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2016 Vol. 10 P. 1–14
A 40-year-old, non-aphasic, right-handed, and polyglot (L1: French, L2: Dutch, and L3: English) woman with a 12-year history of addiction to opiates and psychoactive substances, and clear psychiatric problems, presented with a foreign accent of sudden onset in L1. Speech evolved toward a mostly fluent output, despite a stutter-like behavior and a marked grammatical output ...
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Arslan S., Bamyacı E., Bastiaanse R., Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics 2016 Vol. 30 No. 16 P. 449–469
This study investigates the characteristics of narrative-speech production and the use of verbs in Turkish agrammatic speakers (n = 10) compared to non-brain-damaged controls (n = 10). To elicit narrative-speech samples, personal interviews and storytelling tasks were conducted. Turkish has a large and regular verb inflection paradigm where verbs are inflected for evidentiality (i.e. direct versus indirect ...
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Kuzmina E., Humphreys G. W., Riddoch M. J. et al., Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology 2018 Vol. 40 No. 1 P. 1–16
Introduction: The Birmingham Cognitive Screen (BCoS) is designed for use with individuals who have acquired language impairment following stroke. Our goal was to develop a Russian version of the BCoS (Rus-BCoS) by translating the battery following cultural and linguistic adaptations and establishing preliminary data on its psychometric properties. Method: Fifty patients with left-hemisphere stroke were recruited, ...
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Yurchenko A., Dragoy O., Ailantova S., , in: Methods of data processing in EEG/MEG/ Applied aspects of magneto- and electroencephalographic neuroimaging.: M.: MSUPE, 2013. P. 50–51.
The study was aimed at examination of processing lexical-semantic information in Russian healthy individuals and aphasic patients grouped using aphasia diagnosis and lesion localization. ...
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Malyutina S., Richardson J., Den Ouden D., Seminars in Speech and Language 2016 Vol. 37 No. 1 P. 34–47
Previous research has found that verb argument structure characteristics (such as the number of participant roles in the situation described by the verb) can facilitate or hinder aphasic language production and comprehension in constrained laboratory tasks. This research needs to be complemented by studies of narrative or unrestricted speech, which can capture the spontaneous selection ...
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Linnik A., Bastiaanse R., Khudyakova Mariya, Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie 2015 Vol. 20 P. 107–110
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Akinina Y., Bergelson M., Khudyakova M. et al., Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie 2015 Vol. 20 No. 1 P. 21–23
In the current study we present interim results of verb use analysis in two aphasic groups
based on Russian CliPS (Clinical Pear Stories) data. Russian CliPS is a multimedia corpus of
narratives produced by speakers with aphasia and right hemisphere damage, as well as
neurologically healthy speakers of Russian. ...
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Bergelson M., Akinina Y., Khudyakova M. et al., , in: CEUR Workshop ProceedingsVol. 1419: Proceedings of the EuroAsianPacific Joint Conference on Cognitive Science (EAPCogSci 2015), Torino, Italy, September 25-27, 2015.: CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2015. P. 15–15.
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Bergelson M., Akinina Y., Dragoy O. et al., В кн.: Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологии. По материалам ежегодной Международной конференции "Диалог" (2015).: М.: Изд-во РГГУ, 2015. С. 41–51.
Aphasia is language impairment due to brain damage. Word-finding and word-retrieval problems can be very prominent in the speech of people with aphasia, being detectable in almost every aphasic speaker. On the other hand, word-finding difficulties and speech errors can sometimes oc-cur in speech of neurologically healthy people. It is assumed that the same psycholinguistic ...
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Щеголева С. И., Искра Е. В., Akinina Y. et al., В кн.: Когнитивная наука в Москве: новые исследования (16 июня 2015 г.).: М.: Буки Веди, 2015. С. 498–503.
Naming difficulties are one of the most common language deficits in aphasia. The aim of the present study was to develop a psycholinguistic test for object and action naming in aphasia. Data collected during standardization of the subtest for naming objects (116 stimuli) and actions (197 stimuli) demonstrated, that the proposed test is sensitive to ...
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Soloukhina O., Ivanova M., Akinina Y. et al., В кн.: Когнитивная наука в Москве: новые исследования (16 июня 2015 г.).: М.: Буки Веди, 2015. С. 401–407.
There is great need for modern neuropsychological standardized tests for language assessment in aphasia in Russian. Our group is working on the development of the Russian Aphasia Test (RAT), Here we provide data on standardization of the subtests for single-word comprehension of actions and objects. The task for the both subtests was a word-picture matching task. ...
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Malyutina S., Iskra E., Sevan D. et al., Aphasiology 2014 Vol. 28 No. 10 P. 1178–1197
Background: A verb’s instrumentality and name relation to an associated instrument noun are among the factors influencing verb retrieval in speakers with aphasia. Previous data on the effects of these factors are equivocal, possibly due to language- and taskspecific factors. Aims: The present study aimed to investigate the nature of the instrumentality and verbnoun name ...
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