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Informationen zum Autor David Caplan is a poet, scholar, and literary critic. He previously published two poetry collections, In the World He Created According to His Will (University of Georgia Press) and Into My Garden (Ben Yehuda Press), as well as several monographs and critical studies. His honors include the Virginia Quarterly Review's Emily Clark Balch Prize for Poetry, an Individual Excellence Award in Criticism from the Ohio Arts Council, and two Fulbright Lectureships in American Literature. He serves as the Daisy Deane Frensley Chair in English Literature at Southern Methodist University. Klappentext This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the emerging fields of neurolinguistics and linguistic aphasiology. Zusammenfassung This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the fields of neurolinguistics and linguistic aphasiology. Reflecting the dramatic changes that have taken place in the study of language disorders over the last decade! David Caplan's approach is firmly interdisciplinary! introducing concepts from the main contributing disciplines - neurology! linguistics! psychology and speech pathology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. Issues in neurolinguistics and linguistic aphasiology; 2. Approaches to neuolinguistics and linguistics aphasiology; Part II. Clinical Aphasiology and Neurolinguistics: 3. The discoveries of Paul Broca: localization of the 'faculty for articulate language'; 4. Classical connectionist models; 5. Extensions of connectionism; 6. Objections to connectionism; 7. Hierarchical models; 8. Global models; 9. Process models; 10. Overview of clinical aphasiology and neurolinguistics; Part III. Linguistic Aphasiology: 11. Linguistic descriptions and aphasic syndromes; 12. Disturbances of lexical semantic representation; 13. Disturbances of the sound system; 14. Acquired dyslexia; 15. Disturbances of sentence production: agrammatism; 16. Disturbances of sentence comprehension; 17. Overview of linguistic aphasiology; Part IV. Contemporary Neurolinguistics: 18. Cerebral dominance and specialization for language; 19. Cerebral localization for language revisited; 20. Cerebral evoked potentials and language; 21. Electrical stimulation of the language areas; 22. Towards a theoretical neurophysiology of language; 23. Overview of contemporary neurolinguistics; References; Author index; Subject index....
