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
Summary
This book concerns the neural organization of language in the healthy brain and in persons with aphasia. The novel concept of neural multifunctionality explains how language is created in the healthy brain, resolves contradictions between classical aphasiology and contemporary understandings of brain-language relations, and serves as the neurobiological basis for development of new approaches to aphasia therapy
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from resource home page (ebrary, viewed January 20, 2016)
