{"pk":25976,"title":"Describing Causal Events: Evidence from Patients with Focal Brain Injury","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We investigated (1) how focal brain-injured patients describe causal events (causal verb like “push” and the instrument\nof the action like “the stick”) in speech and co-speech gestures and (2) whether gestures compensate for their impaired\nverbalization. 16 left hemisphere damaged (LHD), 16 right hemisphere damaged (RHD) and 14 controls were asked to describe\ncausal events (22 video clips). The correct use of causal action components in speech and iconic gestures referring to these\nactions were coded. Results indicated that LHD patients were less accurate in using both components in speech compared to\nRHD and controls. There was no difference in the number of iconic gestures among groups. Yet, LHD patients were more\nlikely to omit or misuse both components in speech and in gesture than RHD and controls. Particularly, damage to the left\ninferior and middle frontal gyrus resulted in problems in both modalities, suggesting conceptual deficits of causality.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1v0686g6","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Demet","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ozer","name_suffix":"","institution":"Koc University","department":""},{"first_name":"Idil","middle_name":"","last_name":"Bostan","name_suffix":"","institution":"Koc University","department":""},{"first_name":"Anjan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Chatterjee","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Pennsylvania","department":""},{"first_name":"Tilbe","middle_name":"","last_name":"Goksun","name_suffix":"","institution":"Koc University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25976/galley/15600/download/"}]}