Basic Problems Of Neurolinguistics (Janua Linguarum)

Foreword
Part I. NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF VERBAL COMMUNICATION
I. The Problem of Verbal Communication
1. The Structure of Verbal Communication
2. Psychological Conditions of Verbal Communication
3. Neuropsychological Approach to the Process of Verbal Communication
II. Neuropsychological Analysis of Encoding of Verbal Communication
A. Disturbances of the Syntagmatic Organization of Verbal Communication in Patients with Local Brain Lesions
B. Disturbances of the Paradigmatic Organization of Verbal Communication in Patients with Local Brain Lesions
C. Conclusion
III. Neuropsychological Analysis of the Decoding of Verbal Communication
1. The Psychological Process of Decoding of Verbal Communication
2. Methods of investigation of the Decoding of Verbal Communication. General Data of Neuropsychological Analysis
3. Disturbances of Understanding of Verbal Communication in Patients with Sensory Aphasia
4. Disturbances of Understanding of Verbal Communication in Patients with Semantic Aphasia
5. Disturbances of Understanding of Verbal Communication in Patients with Syndromes of Motor Aphasia
6. Disturbances of Understanding of Verbal Communication in Patients with Deep Brain Lesions and Syndromes of Memory Disorders
7. Disturbances of Understanding of Verbal Communication in Patients with Massive Lesions of the Frontal Lobes
8. Conclusion
Part II. APHASIA RECONSIDERED
I. A Re-Examination of Complex Forms of Aphasia
II. A Re-Examination of “Conduction Aphasia”
1. The Problem
2. Disturbances of Repetitive Speech in Patients with Acoustico-Articulatory Defects
3. Disturbances of Repetitive Speech in Patients with Acoustico-Mnestic Defects
4. Summary
III. A Re-Examination of “Transcortical Motor Aphasia”
1. The Problem
2. The Hypothesis
3. “Transcortical Motor Aphasia” associated with Massive Disturbances of the Blood Supply to the Anterior Zones of the Speech Area
4. “Transcortical Motor Aphasia” associated with a Massive Tumor of the Posterior Parts of the Frontal Lobes
5. The Amnestic Form of “Transcortical Motor Aphasia”
6. Conclusion
IV. A Re-Examination of Amnestic (Nominal) Aphasia
1. Basic Principles
2. Psychological and Psycholinguistic Analysis of the Process of Naming of Objects
3. Psychological Conditions of the Process of Naming of Objects
4. Psychophysiological Mechanisms of the Disturbances of Naming of Objects
Bibliography
Subjects index
Index of names