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Semantic complexity and treatment study
What is it about?
This paper has explored the Complexity Account of Treatment Efficacy (CATE; Thompson et al., 2003) in the lexical semantic domain and presented a complexity hierarchy based on typicality.
Why is it important?
although counterintuitive we have demonstrated that complexity impacts recovery of naming in aphasia; that is, training atypical, complex category items results in generalization to simpler typical examples but not vice versa. These findings indicate that the Complexity Account of Treatment Efficacy (CATE; Thompson et al., 2003) can be extended to treatment of lexical semantic deficits by considering the typicality of category items.