Chapter 77 - Perinatal Focal Brain Injury: Scope and Limits of Plasticity for Language Functions

Susan C Levine; Anjali Raja Beharelle; Özlem Ece Demir; Steven L Small

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-407794-2.00077-8

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Chapter 77 - Perinatal Focal Brain Injury: Scope and Limits of Plasticity for Language Functions

Susan C Levine, Anjali Raja Beharelle, Özlem Ece Demir and Steven L Small

Neurobiology of Language, pp.969-983

Elsevier Inc

2016

DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-407794-2.00077-8

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Abstract

Children with perinatal focal brain injury exhibit normal or near-normal language development even when lesions are large and encompass classic left hemisphere perisylvian language networks. Their language difficulties are much more subtle than those seen in adults with similar lesions. We review the literature on the effects of perinatal injury on language development, with a focus on the scope and limits of functional plasticity, the relation between biological characteristics of lesions and language input on functional plasticity, and potential mechanisms of language plasticity after early lesions. The literature on the plasticity for language functions after perinatal focal brain injury presents a challenge to theories that posit an immutable brain basis for language and is consistent with the view of a dynamic, plastic brain—a developing brain capable of responding to internal biological signals, including those associated with injury, and to information provided by the environment.

functional plasticity

brain injury

language development

neural plasticity

Perinatal

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Title: Subtitle: Chapter 77 - Perinatal Focal Brain Injury: Scope and Limits of Plasticity for Language Functions
Creators: Susan C Levine - Department of Psychology, Department of Comparative Human Development, and Committee on Education, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Anjali Raja Beharelle - Department of Economics, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Özlem Ece Demir - Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Steven L Small - Department of Neurology, The University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
Resource Type: Book chapter
Publication Details: Neurobiology of Language, pp.969-983
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-407794-2.00077-8
Publisher: Elsevier Inc
Language: English
Date published: 2016
Academic Unit: Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Center for Social Science Innovation
Record Identifier: 9984071654302771

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