سازمان سلسله مراتبی دانش معنایی در آفت کش سکته مغزی: نقش اشتراک مشترک و عملکرد اجرایی

The present study directly evaluates the impact of feature sharedness on the differences between superordinate and basic-level concepts observed in aphasia patients due to fronto-temporal stroke. In particular, it was evaluated if feature sharedness composition explains the superordinate deficits observed in these patients. For this purpose we studied 6 stroke aphasia patients and 12 matched controls using a sentence verification task in which feature sharedness (more vs. less shared) and concept level (basic level vs. superordinate) were orthogonally manipulated. The results showed that sentences involving more shared features were processed faster and more accurately than sentences involving less shared features. This difference was particularly relevant in the processing of superordinate concepts, and was exacerbated for patients in relation to healthy controls. These findings suggest that deficits in executive function especially impact the processing of less shared features leading to superordinate deficits in stroke aphasia.