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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463630503321

Autore

Cahana-Amitay Dalia

Titolo

Redefining recovery from aphasia / / Dalia Cahana-Amitay and Martin L. Albert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-19-022180-1

0-19-022178-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Disciplina

616.85/52

Soggetti

Aphasia

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

What we know and do not know about recovery from aphasia -- Language in the healthy brain : evidence for multifunctionality -- Executive functions and aphasia recovery -- Attention systems and aphasia recovery -- The role of memory functions in aphasia recovery -- The role of emotion in recovery from aphasia -- Praxis in aphasia recovery -- Visual processing in aphasia recovery -- Redefining recovery from aphasia.

Sommario/riassunto

This book focuses on two fundamental aspects of brain-language relations: one concerns the neural organization of language in the healthy brain; the other challenges current approaches to treatment of aphasia and offers a new theory for recovery from aphasia. The essence of the book lies in the phrase neural multifunctionality: the constant and dynamic incorporation of non-linguistic functions into language models of the intact brain. The book makes the claim that language is a construction, created as we use it, and cannot be understood as being supported by neurally based linguistic networks