This chapter deals with all problems of a lexical-semantic nature concerning the production
and the comprehension processes in aphasia. Semantic disturbances in aphasia, generally …

Naming disorders of aphasic patients have generally been considered as resulting from an
impairment of the 'peripheral'mechanisms connecting the central semantic system with the …

Reviews recent investigations of lexical and syntactic aspects of language comprehension
in aphasia. It is argued that these studies support theoretical assumptions concerning the …

Broca′ s and Wernicke′ s aphasics performed speeded lexical decisions on the third
member of auditorily presented triplets consisting of two word primes followed by either a …

A major goal in the study of language disorders by linguists is to develop an understanding
of the functional architecture of language competence. Specifically, it is hoped that the study …

We show in this chapter that selective aphasic deficits dissociate distinct language
processing systems. To this end, we focus on disruptions of lexical access that appear to …

Acquired aphasia is the loss of some aspect of language processing consequent to brain
damage. The specific form of aphasia observed in a patient is determined by the locus of …

The lesions responsible for the fluent forms of aphasia tend to be concentrated in the
posterior regions of the sylvian valleys, and those responsible for the nonfluent aphasias …

In 1920 Head described a language alteration that he defined as an inability to recognize
simultaneously the elements within a sentence, and he called this semantic aphasia. Only a …

Processing strategies for production (oral/written) and perception (auditory/visual) of
prepositions were studied in Broca's and Wernicke's aphasia. Production was, in general …