Loraine Obler, K. Gjerlow

Language and the Brain

Herausgeber: Aitchison, Jean

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How 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 organized in the brain.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 248g
• ISBN-13: 9780521466417
• ISBN-10: 0521466415
• Artikelnr.: 21697942

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Neurolinguistics
2. The brain
3. How we know what we know about brain organization for language
4. Aphasia: classification of the syndromes
5. Aphasia: what underlies the syndromes
6. Childhood aphasia and other language disorders
7. Right-brain-damage
8. Dementia
9. Disorders of the written word: dyslexia and dysgraphia
10. Bilingualism
11. Language organisation
12. The future of neurolinguistic study
Glossary
Notes and further reading
Index.