Journal article
Neurology of language
Current opinion in neurology and neurosurgery, Vol.5(1), pp.77-82
02/1992
PMID: 1377971
Abstract
A host of recent investigations and new theoretical models have advanced our understanding of the neural underpinnings of speech and language in humans. The application of positron emission tomography (PET) techniques to the investigation of language has provided corroborating evidence regarding the role of left hemisphere structures previously associated with language, together with some intriguing new findings. Innovative ideas regarding the ontogeny of language have come from studies of deaf infants who appear to babble with signs in much the same way that hearing infants babble vocally. A number of investigators have focused on the controversial syndrome known as progressive aphasia, and new evidence has supported the importance of this syndrome from both diagnostic (e.g. providing clues regarding neuropathology) and scientific (e.g. yielding information about the organization of lexical access structures in left temporal lobe) perspectives.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Neurology of language
- Creators
- D Tranel - Department of Neurology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Current opinion in neurology and neurosurgery, Vol.5(1), pp.77-82
- PMID
- 1377971
- NLM abbreviation
- Curr Opin Neurol Neurosurg
- ISSN
- 0951-7383
- Publisher
- United States
- Grant note
- NS19632 / NINDS NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/1992
- Academic Unit
- Neurology; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984002435502771
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