28.4829, FYI: Online Lecture: ''Neurolinguistics and aphasia''

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Subject: 28.4829, FYI:  Online Lecture: ''Neurolinguistics and aphasia''

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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:16:45
From: Dirk Den Ouden [denouden at sc.edu]
Subject: Online Lecture: ''Neurolinguistics and aphasia''

 
Thursday, November 16th, 2pm EDT
https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/667426173
http://cstar.sc.edu/lecture-series/
 
Aphasia rehabilitation: what we learn from neurolinguistics
 
Sylvie Moritz-Gasser, PhD
Université Montpellier, France
 
Aphasia is a devastating acquired language impairment mainly caused by stroke.
Each year, more than 4 million people in the world are affected by post-stroke
aphasia, which thus constitutes a major, yet dramatically little known, public
health concern. Because language is a quintessential feature of the human
being, it is crucial to enable patients to reach the best recovery as
possible. If speech-language therapy has been shown to be effective, the
efficiency of one therapeutic strategy over another remains a matter of
debate, and conventional therapies have so far not really proved their worth.
Because clinical presentations are infinitely various, the time has come to
wonder how to build a specific rehabilitation program for each aphasic
patient. In this regard, neurolinguistics, from cognitive/clinical
neuroscience to functional neuroanatomy and psycholinguistic, brings us
valuable insights that we discuss here. We focus in particular on anomia, a
central feature in aphasia, and on its links with other aphasic symptoms. We
bring clinical and theoretical-based hypotheses about the mechanisms
underlying anomia, while explaining why this symptom is the key clinical
feature in every aphasic patient, and then propose a neurolinguistics-based
methodology to design individualized rehabilitation programs. 

The lecture will be held at the Université Montpellier, France, and broadcast
live.
 
Viewing event at the University of South Carolina:
Room #140, Discovery I, 915 Greene Street, Columbia, SC 29208
Date: Thursday, November 16th, Time: 2pm – 3pm EDT
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Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Neurolinguistics
                     Psycholinguistics





 



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