Authors: Marcia Radanovic , Leticia Lessa Mansur

Language Disturbances in Adulthood: New Advances from the Neurolinguistics Perspective

eBook: US $49 Special Offer (PDF + Printed Copy): US $83
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Library License: US $196
ISBN: 978-1-60805-681-1 (Print)
ISBN: 978-1-60805-108-3 (Online)
Year of Publication: 2011
DOI: 10.2174/97816080510831110101

Introduction

Language is the most versatile and fascinating of all human cognitive functions, constituting a field of interest in very different areas, from Linguistics to Speech Therapy, from Philosophy to Computational Sciences, including Psychology, Neurology, Biology, and Social Sciences. The scope of this E-book is to provide the reader with an update on topics relevant to neurolinguistics such as new cognitive models of comprehension and production of normal language, new perspectives on the understanding of aphasic symptoms and the interface between language and other cognitive functions – functional neuroimaging and language. This E-book will be of interest both for teachers and researchers in Neurosciences and Linguistics as well as for professionals who treat patients with disorders of language and communication, such as Neurologists, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Neuropsychologists, Speech Therapists, and Occupational Therapists, among many others.

Foreword

- Pp. i
Tania Maria da Silva Novaretti
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Preface

- Pp. ii
Marcia Radanovic, Leticia Lessa Mansur
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List of Contributors

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Marcia Radanovic, Leticia Lessa Mansur
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Normal Language: Cognitive and Linguistic Models

- Pp. 3-24 (22)
Marcia Radanovic, Leticia Lessa Mansur
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Language Alterations in Focal Lesions: Current Concepts in Aphasia

- Pp. 25-36 (12)
Marcia Radanovic, Leticia Lessa Mansur
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Language Alterations due to Right Hemisphere Lesions

- Pp. 37-46 (10)
Leticia Lessa Mansur
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Interface between Language and other Cognitive Functions

- Pp. 47-58 (12)
Marcia Radanovic, Leticia Lessa Mansur
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Language Alterations in Alzheimer's Disease and other Dementias

- Pp. 59-70 (12)
Leticia Lessa Mansur
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Language Alterations in Subcortical Lesions: New Concepts

- Pp. 71-84 (14)
Marcia Radanovic, Leticia Lessa Mansur
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Functional Neuroimaging and Language: an Update

- Pp. 85-92 (8)
Marcia Radanovic
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Glossary

- Pp. 93-96 (4)
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Subject Index

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Marcia Radanovic, Leticia Lessa Mansur
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Author Index

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