Hayward William, Snider Sarah F, Luta George, Friedman Rhonda B, Turkeltaub Peter E
a Department of Neurology , Georgetown University , Washington , DC , USA.
b Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Biomathematics , Georgetown University , Washington , DC , USA.
Cogn Neuropsychol. 2016 Jul-Sep;33(5-6):299-314. doi: 10.1080/02643294.2016.1192998. Epub 2016 Jul 29.
People with aphasia frequently report being able to say a word correctly in their heads, even if they are unable to say that word aloud. It is difficult to know what is meant by these reports of "successful inner speech". We probe the experience of successful inner speech in two people with aphasia. We show that these reports are associated with correct overt speech and phonologically related nonword errors, that they relate to word characteristics associated with ease of lexical access but not ease of production, and that they predict whether or not individual words are relearned during anomia treatment. These findings suggest that reports of successful inner speech are meaningful and may be useful to study self-monitoring in aphasia, to better understand anomia, and to predict treatment outcomes. Ultimately, the study of inner speech in people with aphasia could provide critical insights that inform our understanding of normal language.
失语症患者经常报告说,即使他们无法大声说出某个单词,也能在脑海中正确地说出这个单词。很难理解这些关于“成功的内心言语”的报告是什么意思。我们探究了两名失语症患者成功的内心言语体验。我们发现,这些报告与正确的公开言语和语音相关的非单词错误有关,它们与词汇获取容易程度相关的单词特征有关,而与生成容易程度无关,并且它们可以预测在命名性失语治疗期间单个单词是否会重新学习。这些发现表明,成功的内心言语报告是有意义的,可能有助于研究失语症中的自我监测,更好地理解命名性失语,并预测治疗结果。最终,对失语症患者内心言语的研究可以提供关键的见解,以增进我们对正常语言的理解。