Title and Contact Information
Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital Neurology
Appointments: 617-726-3274
Fax Number: 617-724-7836
Clinical Interests
- Behavioral Neurology
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Language Disorders
Clinical Background
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MD Degree
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McGill University |
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Doctorate
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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Board Certification
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Neurology (Lifetime) |
Languages
French
Articles
Caplan
D
Aphasic deficits in syntactic processing.
Cortex.
2006
Aug
;
42
(6):
797-804
Caplan
D, Waters
G, Dede
G, Michaud
J, Reddy
A
A study of syntactic processing in aphasia I: behavioral (psycholinguistic) aspects.
Brain Lang.
2007
May
;
101
(2):
103-50
Caplan
D, Waters
G, Kennedy
D, Alpert
N, Makris
N, Dede
G, Michaud
J, Reddy
A
A study of syntactic processing in aphasia II: neurological aspects.
Brain Lang.
2007
May
;
101
(2):
151-77
Chen
E, West
WC, Waters
G, Caplan
D
Determinants of bold signal correlates of processing object-extracted relative clauses.
Cortex.
2006
May
;
42
(4):
591-604
Caplan
D
Why is Broca's area involved in syntax?
Cortex.
2006
May
;
42
(4):
469-71
Kuperberg
GR, Lakshmanan
BM, Caplan
DN, Holcomb
PJ
Making sense of discourse: an fMRI study of causal inferencing across sentences.
Neuroimage.
2006
Oct
15;
33
(1):
343-61
Guerry
M, Gimenes
M, Caplan
D, Rigalleau
F
How long does it take to find a cause? An online investigation of implicit causality in sentence production.
Q J Exp Psychol (Colchester).
2006
Sep
;
59
(9):
1535-55
Caplan
D, Chen
E
Using fMRI to discover cognitive operations.
Cortex.
2006
Apr
;
42
(3):
393-5; discussion 422-7
Kuperberg
GR, Kreher
DA, Sitnikova
T, Caplan
DN, Holcomb
PJ
The role of animacy and thematic relationships in processing active English sentences: evidence from event-related potentials.
Brain Lang.
2007
Mar
;
100
(3):
223-37
Schmahmann
JD, Caplan
D
Cognition, emotion and the cerebellum.
Brain.
2006
Feb
;
129
(Pt 2):
290-2
Caplan
D, DeDe
G, Brownell
H
Effects of syntactic features on sentence-picture matching in Broca's aphasics: a reply to Drai and Grodzinksy (2005).
Brain Lang.
2006
Feb
;
96
(2):
129-34; discussion 157-70
Waters
G, Caplan
D
The relationship between age, processing speed, working memory capacity, and language comprehension.
Memory.
;
13
(3-4):
403-13
DeDe
G, Caplan
D, Kemtes
K, Waters
G
The relationship between age, verbal working memory, and language comprehension.
Psychol Aging.
2004
Dec
;
19
(4):
601-16
Doherty
CP, West
WC, Dilley
LC, Shattuck-Hufnagel
S, Caplan
D
Question/statement judgments: an fMRI study of intonation processing.
Hum Brain Mapp.
2004
Oct
;
23
(2):
85-98
Rigalleau
F, Caplan
D, Baudiffier
V
New arguments in favour of an automatic gender pronominal process.
Q J Exp Psychol A.
2004
Jul
;
57
(5):
893-933
Rigalleau
F, Baudiffier
V, Caplan
D
Comprehension of sentences with stylistic inversion by French aphasic patients.
Brain Lang.
2004
Apr
;
89
(1):
142-56
Caplan
D, Moo
L
Cognitive conjunction and cognitive functions.
Neuroimage.
2004
Feb
;
21
(2):
751-6
Waters
GS, Caplan
D
The reliability and stability of verbal working memory measures.
Behav Res Methods Instrum Comput.
2003
Nov
;
35
(4):
550-64
Waters
GS, Caplan
D
Verbal working memory and on-line syntactic processing: evidence from self-paced listening.
Q J Exp Psychol A.
2004
Jan
;
57
(1):
129-63
Waters
G, Caplan
D, Alpert
N, Stanczak
L
Individual differences in rCBF correlates of syntactic processing in sentence comprehension: effects of working memory and speed of processing.
Neuroimage.
2003
May
;
19
(1):
101-12
Caplan
D, Waters
G, Alpert
N
Effects of age and speed of processing on rCBF correlates of syntactic processing in sentence comprehension.
Hum Brain Mapp.
2003
Jun
;
19
(2):
112-31
Kuperberg
GR, Sitnikova
T, Caplan
D, Holcomb
PJ
Electrophysiological distinctions in processing conceptual relationships within simple sentences.
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res.
2003
Jun
;
17
(1):
117-29
Waters
G, Caplan
D, Yampolsky
S
On-line syntactic processing under concurrent memory load.
Psychon Bull Rev.
2003
Mar
;
10
(1):
88-95
Kuperberg
GR, Holcomb
PJ, Sitnikova
T, Greve
D, Dale
AM, Caplan
D
Distinct patterns of neural modulation during the processing of conceptual and syntactic anomalies.
J Cogn Neurosci.
2003
Feb
15;
15
(2):
272-93
Hoen
M, Golembiowski
M, Guyot
E, Deprez
V, Caplan
D, Dominey
PF
Training with cognitive sequences improves syntactic comprehension in agrammatic aphasics.
Neuroreport.
2003
Mar
3;
14
(3):
495-9
Caplan
D, Waters
G
On-line syntactic processing in aphasia: studies with auditory moving window presentation.
Brain Lang.
2003
Feb
;
84
(2):
222-49
Chee
MW, Caplan
D
Face encoding and psychometric testing in healthy dextrals with right hemisphere language.
Neurology.
2002
Dec
24;
59
(12):
1928-34
Caviness
VS, Makris
N, Montinaro
E, Sahin
NT, Bates
JF, Schwamm
L, Caplan
D, Kennedy
DN
Anatomy of stroke, Part II: volumetric characteristics with implications for the local architecture of the cerebral perfusion system.
Stroke.
2002
Nov
;
33
(11):
2557-64
Caviness
VS, Makris
N, Montinaro
E, Sahin
NT, Bates
JF, Schwamm
L, Caplan
D, Kennedy
DN
Anatomy of stroke, Part I: an MRI-based topographic and volumetric System of analysis.
Stroke.
2002
Nov
;
33
(11):
2549-56
Waters
G, Caplan
D
Working memory and online syntactic processing in Alzheimer's disease: studies with auditory moving window presentation.
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci.
2002
Jul
;
57
(4):
P298-311
Yampolsky
S, Waters
G, Caplan
D, Matthies
M, Chiu
P
Effects of acoustic degradation on syntactic processing: implications for the nature of the resource system used in language processing.
Brain Cogn.
;
48
(2-3):
617-25
Chee
MW, Hon
NH, Caplan
D, Lee
HL, Goh
J
Frequency of concrete words modulates prefrontal activation during semantic judgments.
Neuroimage.
2002
May
;
16
(1):
259-68
Caplan
D, Vijayan
S, Kuperberg
G, West
C, Waters
G, Greve
D, Dale
AM
Vascular responses to syntactic processing: event-related fMRI study of relative clauses.
Hum Brain Mapp.
2002
Jan
;
15
(1):
26-38
Caplan
D
Functional neuroimaging studies of syntactic processing.
J Psycholinguist Res.
2001
May
;
30
(3):
297-320
Waters
GS, Caplan
D
Age, working memory, and on-line syntactic processing in sentence comprehension.
Psychol Aging.
2001
Mar
;
16
(1):
128-44
Caplan
D, Waters
GS
Verbal working memory and sentence comprehension.
Behav Brain Sci.
1999
Feb
;
22
(1):
77-94; discussion 95-126
Caplan
D
The measurement of chance performance in aphasia, with specific reference to the comprehension of semantically reversible passive sentences: a note on issues raised by Caramazza, Capitani, Rey, and Berndt (2001) and Drai, Grodzinsky, and Zurif (2001).
Brain Lang.
2001
Feb
;
76
(2):
193-201
Titone
D, Wingfield
A, Caplan
D, Waters
G, Prentice
K
Memory and encoding of spoken discourse following right hemisphere damage: evidence from the Auditory Moving Window (AMW) technique.
Brain Lang.
2001
Apr
;
77
(1):
10-24
Caplan
D
Language-related cortex in deaf individuals: functional specialization for language or perceptual plasticity?
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.
2000
Dec
5;
97
(25):
13476-7
Rochon
E, Waters
GS, Caplan
D
The relationship between measures of working memory and sentence comprehension in patients with Alzheimer's disease.
J Speech Lang Hear Res.
2000
Apr
;
43
(2):
395-413
Rigalleau
F, Caplan
D
Effects of gender marking in pronominal coindexation.
Q J Exp Psychol A.
2000
Feb
;
53
(1):
23-52
Caplan
D, Alpert
N, Waters
G, Olivieri
A
Activation of Broca's area by syntactic processing under conditions of concurrent articulation.
Hum Brain Mapp.
2000
Feb
;
9
(2):
65-71
Caplan
D
Activating brain systems for syntax and semantics.
Neuron.
1999
Oct
;
24
(2):
292-3
Chee
MW, Caplan
D, Soon
CS, Sriram
N, Tan
EW, Thiel
T, Weekes
B
Processing of visually presented sentences in Mandarin and English studied with fMRI.
Neuron.
1999
May
;
23
(1):
127-37
Caplan
D, Alpert
N, Waters
G
PET studies of syntactic processing with auditory sentence presentation.
Neuroimage.
1999
Mar
;
9
(3):
343-51
Caplan
D, Alpert
N, Waters
G
Effects of syntactic structure and propositional number on patterns of regional cerebral blood flow.
J Cogn Neurosci.
1998
Jul
;
10
(4):
541-52
Caplan
D, Hanna
JE
Sentence production by aphasic patients in a constrained task.
Brain Lang.
1998
Jun
15;
63
(2):
184-218
Waters
GS, Rochon
E, Caplan
D
Task demands and sentence comprehension in patients with dementia of the Alzheimer's type.
Brain Lang.
1998
May
;
62
(3):
361-97
Waters
GS, Caplan
D
Working memory and on-line sentence comprehension in patients with Alzheimer's disease.
J Psycholinguist Res.
1997
Jul
;
26
(4):
377-400
Caplan
D, Waters
GS, Hildebrandt
N
Determinants of sentence comprehension in aphasic patients in sentence-picture matching tasks.
J Speech Lang Hear Res.
1997
Jun
;
40
(3):
542-55
Leonard
CL, Waters
GS, Caplan
D
The use of contextual information related to general world knowledge by right brain-damaged individuals in pronoun resolution.
Brain Lang.
1997
May
;
57
(3):
343-59
Leonard
CL, Waters
GS, Caplan
D
The use of contextual information by right brain-damaged individuals in the resolution of ambiguous pronouns.
Brain Lang.
1997
May
;
57
(3):
309-42
Waters
GS, Caplan
D
The capacity theory of sentence comprehension: critique of Just and Carpenter (1992)
Psychol Rev.
1996
Oct
;
103
(4):
761-72
Caplan
D, Hildebrandt
N, Makris
N
Location of lesions in stroke patients with deficits in syntactic processing in sentence comprehension.
Brain.
1996
Jun
;
119 ( Pt 3)
():
933-49
Waters
GS, Caplan
D
Processing resource capacity and the comprehension of garden path sentences.
Mem Cognit.
1996
May
;
24
(3):
342-55
Stromswold
K, Caplan
D, Alpert
N, Rauch
S
Localization of syntactic comprehension by positron emission tomography.
Brain Lang.
1996
Mar
;
52
(3):
452-73
Waters
GS, Caplan
D
The measurement of verbal working memory capacity and its relation to reading comprehension.
Q J Exp Psychol A.
1996
Feb
;
49
(1):
51-75
Gow
DW, Caplan
D
An examination of impaired acoustic-phonetic processing in aphasia.
Brain Lang.
1996
Feb
;
52
(2):
386-407
Caplan
D
Issues arising in contemporary studies of disorders of syntactic processing in sentence comprehension in agrammatic patients.
Brain Lang.
1995
Sep
;
50
(3):
325-38
Hildebrandt
N, Caplan
D, Sokol
S, Torreano
L
Lexical factors in the word-superiority effect.
Mem Cognit.
1995
Jan
;
23
(1):
23-33
Caplan
D, Waters
GS
Articulatory length and phonological similarity in span tasks: a reply to Baddeley and Andrade.
Q J Exp Psychol A.
1994
Nov
;
47
(4):
1055-62
Rochon
E, Waters
GS, Caplan
D
Sentence comprehension in patients with Alzheimer's disease.
Brain Lang.
1994
Feb
;
46
(2):
329-49
Caplan
D, Utman
JA
Selective acoustic phonetic impairment and lexical access in an aphasic patient.
J Acoust Soc Am.
1994
Jan
;
95
(1):
512-7
Caplan
D, Rochon
E, Waters
GS
Articulatory and phonological determinants of word length effects in span tasks.
Q J Exp Psychol A.
1992
Aug
;
45
(2):
177-92
Damecour
CL, Caplan
D
The relationship of depression to symptomatology and lesion site in aphasic patients.
Cortex.
1991
Sep
;
27
(3):
385-401
Caplan
D
Agrammatism is a theoretically coherent aphasic category.
Brain Lang.
1991
Feb
;
40
(2):
274-81
Caplan
D, Evans
KL
The effects of syntactic structure on discourse comprehension in patients with parsing impairments.
Brain Lang.
1990
Aug
;
39
(2):
206-34
Butler-Hinz
S, Caplan
D, Waters
G
Characteristics of syntactic comprehension deficits following closed head injury versus left cerebrovascular accident.
J Speech Hear Res.
1990
Jun
;
33
(2):
269-80
Nespoulous
JL, Dordain
M, Perron
C, Ska
B, Bub
D, Caplan
D, Mehler
J, Lecours
AR
Agrammatism in sentence production without comprehension deficits: reduced availability of syntactic structures and/or of grammatical morphemes? A case study.
Brain Lang.
1988
Mar
;
33
(2):
273-95
Caplan
D
Agrammatism and the coindexation of traces: comments on Grodzinsky's reply.
Brain Lang.
1987
Jan
;
30
(1):
191-3
Caplan
D
Discrimination of normal and aphasic subjects on a test of syntactic comprehension.
Neuropsychologia.
1987
;
25
(1B):
173-84
Caplan
D
In defense of agrammatism.
Cognition.
1986
Dec
;
24
(3):
263-76
Caplan
D, Hildebrandt
N
Language deficits and the theory of syntax: a reply to Grodzinsky.
Brain Lang.
1986
Jan
;
27
(1):
168-77
Caplan
D, Futter
C
Assignment of thematic roles to nouns in sentence comprehension by an agrammatic patient.
Brain Lang.
1986
Jan
;
27
(1):
117-34
Caplan
D, Baker
C, Dehaut
F
Syntactic determinants of sentence comprehension in aphasia.
Cognition.
1985
Nov
;
21
(2):
117-75
Lecours
AR, Caplan
D
Augusta Dejerine-Klumpke or "The Lesson in Anatomy".
Brain Cogn.
1984
Apr
;
3
(2):
166-97
Nespoulous
JL, Joanette
Y, Béland
R, Caplan
D, Lecours
AR
Phonologic disturbances in aphasia: is there a "markedness effect" in aphasic phonetic errors?
Adv Neurol.
1984
;
42
():
203-14
Caplan
D
A note on the "word-order problem" in agrammatism.
Brain Lang.
1983
Sep
;
20
(1):
155-65
Caplan
D
On the cerebral localization of linguistic functions: logical and empirical issues surrounding deficit analysis and functional localization.
Brain Lang.
1981
Sep
;
14
(1):
120-37
Caplan
D
Prospects for neurolinguistic theory.
Cognition.
;
10
(1-3):
59-64
Caplan
D, Matthei
E, Gigley
H
Comprehension of gerundive constructions by Broca's aphasics.
Brain Lang.
1981
May
;
13
(1):
145-69
Marshall
JC, Caplan
D, Holmes
JM
The measure of laterality.
Neuropsychologia.
1975
Sep
;
13
(3):
315-21
Caplan
D, Holmes
JM, Marshall
JC
Word classes and hemispheric specialization.
Neuropsychologia.
1974
Jul
;
12
(3):
331-7
Caplan
D, Kellar
L, Locke
S
Inflection of neologisms in aphasia.
Brain.
1972
;
95
(1):
169-72