Clinical and experimental studies of focal frontal lobe damage in children and adults are
reviewed and analyzed. Although each literature has traditionally been treated separately …

A common denominator can be found permeating thought disorder at various levels–the
lack of executive planning and editing. With data available from aphasiology and …

Schizophrenic patients have bizarre experiences which reflect a disorder in the contents of
consciousness. For example, patients hear voices talking about them or they are convinced …

Although this is a time of unprecedented progress in cognitive neuroscience, clinicians who
evaluate and treat frontal lobe dysfunction still face many of the frustrations encountered by …

In this study, we investigated whether the occipital cortex of blind humans is activated during
haptic perception and/or transformation of a haptic image. Slow event‐related brain …

A story comprehension task was specifically developed for the clinical diagnosis of text
comprehension deficits. The performance of 49 healthy control participants on qualitatively …

Schizophrenia is characterized by marked language deficits, but it is not clear how these
deficits arise from the alteration of genes related to the disease. The goal of this paper is to …

Comprehending language in context requires inferencing, particularly for the establishment
of local coherence. In the neurolinguistic literature, an inference deficit after right …

This is a classic edition of Christopher Frith's award winning book on cognitive
neuropsychology and schizophrenia, which now includes a new introduction from the …

The aim of this study was to evaluate linguistic skills of aphasic speakers in a clinical
discourse. Fifteen aphasic speakers were selected from a cohort of 486 stroke patients, and …