Very early in the attempt to identify nosological units, researchers accumulated numerous incidental observations on the facial expressions and gestures of their patients. These …
The most commonly held view concerning the nature of aphasia is, that it is a disorder specific to verbal symbolic processes. An alternate view is that aphasia is a more generic …
THE subject which I am going to discuss concerns verbal expression in aphasia and, more especially, oral expression. In other words, I am going to limit myself to that phase of …
A Le May, R David, AP Thomas - Aphasiology, 1988 - Taylor & Francis
In order to determine the extent to which aphasic patients are able to use hand gestures in their spontaneous communication, informally structured 20-minute interviews were …
H Goodglass, E Kaplan - Brain, 1963 - academic.oup.com
THE literature on aphasia from the middle 1800's includes references to the ability of aphasic patients to indicate, by means of pantomime, their awareness of certain things …
AR Luria, JT Hutton - Brain and language, 1977 - Elsevier
A brief survey of the field of aphasia is presented. Many of the facts described in the neurological classics remain valid, but the interpretation of these facts must be altered. The …
K Hogrefe, W Ziegler, S Wiesmayer, N Weidinger… - Aphasiology, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Two main conflicting positions exist concerning the relationship of gesture and speech. The first claims that gesture and speech constitute a single bimodal production …
EM Saffran - Seminars in Neurology, 2000 - thieme-connect.com
This article provides a brief history of the study of aphasia, along with current data on aphasic syndromes and their localization in the brain as well as information on testing …
P Feyereisen - Aphasiology, 1991 - Taylor & Francis
We often hear that 'aphasics communicate better than they speak'. This proposition seems very paradoxical if we consider that speech constitutes the main tool of communication …