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Language, Interaction and Frontotemporal Dementia
Andrea W Mates
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Description for Language, Interaction and Frontotemporal Dementia
Paperback. This volume opens with a discussion of the frontal lobes and their expected involvement in language use and social interaction. Several chapters then use conversation analysis to examine a range of FTD social behaviors in real-world interactions both in and outside of the clinic. Editor(s): Mates, Andrea W.; Mikesell, Lisa; Smith, Michael Sean. Num Pages: 278 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CFD; GTR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 156 x 233 x 15. Weight in Grams: 414.
In the past before improving technologies allowed for the direct observation of brain activity, brain damaged patients were a prime avenue for understanding language structure and inferring back to brain function. Now with the rapid developments in neuroscience, what has been discovered about the brain can inform our view of language allowing us to build hypotheses about the role particular brain regions perform in language use. Brain damaged patients thus become populations which serve as test cases. While technologies in neuroscience have improved, so has our understanding and techniques for observing and analyzing social and communicative behavior. FTD patients have ... Read more
In the past before improving technologies allowed for the direct observation of brain activity, brain damaged patients were a prime avenue for understanding language structure and inferring back to brain function. Now with the rapid developments in neuroscience, what has been discovered about the brain can inform our view of language allowing us to build hypotheses about the role particular brain regions perform in language use. Brain damaged patients thus become populations which serve as test cases. While technologies in neuroscience have improved, so has our understanding and techniques for observing and analyzing social and communicative behavior. FTD patients have ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
Number of Pages
278
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781790397
SKU
V9781781790397
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About Andrea W Mates
Andrea W. Mates is Researcher at the Neurobiology of Language Research Group, UCLA. Lisa Mikesell is Researcher at the Semel Institute Center for Health Services and Society, UCLA. Michael Sean Smith recently completed his PhD the Department of Applied Linguistics, UCLA.
Reviews for Language, Interaction and Frontotemporal Dementia
'Language, Interaction and Frontotemporal Dementia represents a wonderful example of neuroanthropological research, mixing together insights from neurology, linguistics and anthropology to examine a specific problem, and doing ethnographic research that is informed by ideas about how neural functions shape language use, social interactions and this particular type of dementia. I also deeply appreciate the mix of theoretical and applied work.' ... Read more