This Article  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Edited by J. L. Nespoulous and P. Villiard, 285 pp, $49, New York, NY, Springer-Verlag NY Inc, 1990.

Andrew Kertesz, MD, Reviewer
London, Ontario

Arch Neurol. 1992;49(12):1226.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

The introduction introduces a new term (at least new to me), neuropsycholinguistics. Actually, I have been waiting for this to appear to see who will breach the English restraint of piling up components of words. I suppose the next one will be neuropsychocognitolinguistics. The first chapter is a good example of the style and the approach. It contains the by-now familiar model of the lexical system and summarizes the various single case reports of Caramazza and Miceli. These case reports typically take linguistic tasks, such as naming and reading words and analyze the errors to draw conclusions about the nature of various stages of lexical production. Some of these observations have been well known for almost a century, such as the patient who cannot name objects or produces semantic errors but who can, in fact, circumlocute or circumscribe, or patients who cannot respond orally but who can write. The authors . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?