Year: 2004
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Aphasia is a language disturbance caused by brain damage, usually a stroke. \nAphasia has a large impact on a patient’s life, often turning everyday \ncommunicative situations into a struggle to understand and be understood. \nImprovement of these patients’ communicative ability in daily life is the main goal \nof aphasia therapy. The verbal communicative ability of aphasic patients may be \ndisturbed by semantic (word meaning), phonological (word form) and/or syntactic \n(grammatical structure) deficits. Cognitive linguistic treatment aims to improve \nprocessing at the affected linguistic level, implicitly assuming that training of basic \nlanguage skills will result in improved verbal communication. \n\nIn this thesis, the relative impact of semantic and phonological deficits on \nverbal communication is explored. Furthermore, the results of both diagnostic and \ntherapeutic studies in patients with aphasia after stroke are presented.
Author: Suzanne Doesborgh
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: ZonMw
OpenAlex ID: W2162733667