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. 2022 Oct 13;12(10):1386. doi: 10.3390/brainsci12101386

Correction: Machado et al. Cognitive Intervention Strategies Directed to Speech and Language Deficits in Primary Progressive Aphasia: Practice-Based Evidence from 18 Cases. Brain Sci. 2021, 11, 1268

Thais Helena Machado 1,2,3,*, Maria Teresa Carthery-Goulart 4,5,6, Aline Carvalho Campanha 2, Paulo Caramelli 1,2
PMCID: PMC9599494  PMID: 36291356

We would like to have these issues corrected to our recent publication [1].

Text Correction

In Section 2.1: The published sentence “These participants were classified into one of three PPA variants (3 nfvPPA, 5 svPPA, and 5 lvPPA), or as mxPPA (5 subjects) presentations” should be replaced with “These participants were classified into one of three PPA variants (3 nfvPPA, 5 svPPA, and 5 lvPPA), or as mxPPA (5 subjects) presentations”. We reanalyzed the data of a patient diagnosed with nfvPPA submitted to the sentence production program in a preliminary application of the program [2].

In Section 4.2: The published sentence “C15 received prophylaxis treatment and presented no significant change in the trained items (but there was an increase in the correctness of the trained items)” should be replaced with “C15 received prophylaxis treatment and presented a significant change in the trained items (there was an increase in the number of correct responses in the trained items)”.

Error in Tables

Intervention focusing on sentence production: C15 and C16. The information reported in this table referred to the number of correct verbs (n = 20) instead of the number of correct sentences (n = 40). The correct information for these lines of the Table 3 (results of the intervention) are:

Table 3.

Results from the intervention programs.

Trained/Treated Items Untrained Items
Type of Treatment Subjects Number of Sessions Number of Items Baseline Accuracy Post-Intervention Accuracy p Confidence Interval—Compared Effect Size
(Estimate)
(Cohen’s d)
Number of Items Baseline Accuracy Post-Intervention Accuracy p Confidence Interval—Compared Effect Size
(Estimate)
(Cohen’s d)
Sentence production C15 6 40 34 40 <0.05 −0.266/−0.034′ 0.415 40 28 40 <0.01 −0.448/−0.152′ 0.646
C16 10 40 4 28 <0.01 −0.759/−0.441′ 1.209 40 2 14 <0.01 −0.448/−0.152′ 0.646

Intervention focusing on sentence production: C15. The information reported in this table referred to the number of correct verbs (n = 20) instead of the number of correct sentences (n = 40). The correct information for these lines of the Table 5 (Results from the follow-up assessments) are:

Table 5.

Results from the follow-up assessments.

Follow Up—Trained Items Follow Up—Untrained Items
Subjects Time Interval (Months) Number of Items Post-Intervention Accuracy Follow-Up Accuracy p Confidence Interval -Compared Effect Size (Cohen’s d) Number of Items Post-Intervention Accuracy Follow-Up Accuracy p Confidence Interval -Compared Effect Size (Cohen’s d)
Sentence production C15 1 40 40 40 NS NS NS 40 40 40 NS NS NS

The authors apologize for any inconvenience caused and state that the scientific conclusions are unaffected. The original publication has also been updated.

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References

  • 1.Machado T.H., Carthery-Goulart M.T., Campanha A.C., Caramelli P. Cognitive Intervention Strategies Directed to Speech and Language Deficits in Primary Progressive Aphasia: Practice-Based Evidence from 18 Cases. Brain Sci. 2021;11:1268. doi: 10.3390/brainsci11101268. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  • 2.Machado T.H., Campanha A.C., Caramelli P., Carthery-Goulart M.T. Brief intervention for agrammatism in Primary Progressive Nonfluent Aphasia: A case report. Dement. Neuropsychol. 2014;8:291–296. doi: 10.1590/S1980-57642014DN83000014. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]

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