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Speculation about Behavior, Brain Damage, and Self-Organization: The Other Way to Herd a Cat
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Colangelo, Annette; Holden, John G.; Buchanan, Lori; Van Orden, Guy C. – Brain and Language, 2004
This article contrasts aphasic patients' performance of word naming and lexical decision with that of intact college-aged readers. We discuss this contrast within a framework of self-organization; word recognition by aphasic patients is destabilized relative to intact performance. Less stable performance shows itself as an increase in the…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Patients, College Students, Word Frequency
Reading and Writing Skills in Multilingual/Multiliterate Aphasics: Two Case Studies
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Chengappa, Shyamala; Bhat, Sapna; Padakannaya, Prakash – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2004
Reading and writing deficits in two multilingual speakers of Kannada, Hindi and English are described. Disorders of the two patients (Mr G and Ms S) had different etiologies. Mr G had severe alexia with agraphia in English as well as in Kannada and Hindi. Ms S exhibited dissociation across the languages, showing symptoms of surface dyslexia in…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Writing Skills, Multilingualism, Aphasia
Language and the Brain. Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics.
Obler, Loraine K.; Gjerlow, Kris – 1999
This book examines how the brain enables people to speak creatively and build up an understanding of language. The discussion looks at 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…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aphasia, Bilingualism, Dementia