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The Linguistic Cerebellum provides a comprehensive analysis of this unique part of the brain that has the most number of neurons, each operating in distinct networks to perform diverse functions.
This book outlines how those distinct networks operate in relation to non-motor language skills. Coverage includes cerebellar anatomy and function in relation to speech perception, speech planning, verbal fluency, grammar processing, and reading and writing, along with a discussion of language disorders.
List of contents
Chapter 1: The Phonetic Cerebellum: Cerebellar Involvement in Speech Sound Production Wolfram Ziegler
Chapter 2: The Role of the Cerebellum in Speech Perception and Language ComprehensionIngo Hertrich, Klaus Mathiak, and Hermann Ackermann
Chapter 3: The Cerebellum and Verbal Working MemoryCherie L. Marvel and John E. Desmond
Chapter 4: Cerebellum and Verbal Fluency (Phonological and Semantic) Marco Molinari and Maria Leggio
Chapter 5: Cerebellum and Grammar Processing Michael Adamszek and Kenneth C. Kirkby
Chapter 6: Cerebellar-Induced Aphasia and Related Language DisordersKim Van Dun and Peter Mariën
Chapter 7: Analysis of Speech and Language Impairments in Cerebellar DisordersFlorian Bodranghien
Chapter 8: Cerebellum and Writing Kim Van Dun, Dorien Vandenborre, and Peter Mariën
Chapter 9: The role of the Cerebellum in Developmental DyslexiaCatherine J. Stoodley
Chapter 10: Conceptualizing Developmental Language Disorders: A Theoretical Framework Including the Role of the Cerebellum in Language-Related FunctioningLeonard F. Koziol, Lauren A. Barker, and Laura Jansons
Chapter 11: Posterior Fossa Syndrome (PFS) and Cerebellar Mutism Thora Gudrunardottir, Hyo-Jung De Smet, Lisa Bartha-Doering, Kim van Dun, Jo Verhoeven, Philippe Paquier, and Peter Mariën
Chapter 12: Functional Linguistic Topography of the Cerebellum Catherine Stoodley and Jeremy D Schmahmann
Chapter 13: Deep Cerebellar Nuclei (DCN) and Language Christophe Habas, Kim van Dun, Mario Manto, and Peter Mariën
Chapter 14: The Use of Transcranial Magnetic Brain Stimulation to Study Cerebellar Language Function Alan A Beaton, Louise Allen-Walker, and R. Martyn Bracewell
Chapter 15: Experimental Use of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) in Relation to the Cerebellum and Language Georgios P. D. Argyropoulos
About the author
Dr. Mario Manto is a Neurologist at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) with more than 20 years of experience in clinical neurology, particularly cerebellar ataxia. He is a Professor of Neuroanatomy at the University of Mons (Belgium) and Researcher at the FNRS (Belgium). He has been appointed Head of the Department of Neurology of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) de Charleroi (Belgium). The focus of his career for more than 20 years has been the study of cerebellar disorders, from a clinical and basic science point of view. He published more than 160 peer reviewed scientific articles and 15 book chapters on cerebellar topics and he is the editor of 6 books on cerebellar disorders. He is the Founding Editor and Editor in chief of two scientific journals: The Cerebellum and Cerebellum & Ataxias. He is Deputy Editor of the Journal of Neuroengineering and Rehabilitation and a Member of Faculty 1000. He has received many grants from several foundations including the NIH, European Commission, and the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique of Belgium.
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"...a highly valuable guide for professionals of diverse disciplines such as neurologists and neuropsychologists, cognitive scientists, speech and language pathologists and neurolinguists, which will undoubtfully contribute to stimulate and orient future research." --Aphasiology
".the book constitutes an exhaustive review of the current state of affairs in non-motoric (and motoric) linguistic aspects of cerebellar research. With a major emphasis on the latest developments in speech and language, developmental and acquired disorders and evolutionary and neuroimaging research, it magnificently intersperses historical findings tracing back to 1831.with the most recent and controversial aspects in the field. This makes The Linguistic Cerebellum a highly valuable guide for professionals of diverse disciplines such as neurologists and neuropsychologists, cognitive scientists, speech and language pathologists and eurolinguists. to stimulate and orient future research." --Silvia Martinez-Ferreiro, Aphasiology, 2016
