Language and the BrainHow do our brains enable us to speak creatively and build up an understanding of language? This accessible book examines the linguistic and neuro-anatomical underpinnings of language and considers how language skills can systematically break down in individuals with different types of brain damage. By studying children with language disorders, adults with right-hemisphere brain damage, demented patients and people with reading problems, the authors provide an understanding of how language is organised in the brain. |
Contents
Neurolinguistics | 1 |
The brain | 13 |
How we know what we know about brain organization for language | 27 |
Aphasia what underlies the syndromes | 49 |
Childhood aphasia and other language disorders | 65 |
Rightbrain damage | 78 |
Dementia | 91 |
Disorders of the written word dyslexia and dysgraphia | 109 |
Language organization | 141 |
The future of neurolinguistic study | 156 |
Glossary | 169 |
Notes and suggestions for further reading | 180 |
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Bilingualism | 122 |
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Page 183 - ... access. Brain and Language, 51, 156-158. Bates, E., & Wulfeck, B. (1989). Cross-linguistic studies of aphasia. In B. MacWhinney & E. Bates (Eds.), The cross-linguistic study of sentence processing. New York: Cambridge University Press. Bates, E., & Wulfeck, B., & MacWhinney, B. (1991). Cross-linquistic research in aphasia: An overview.