Psychiatric and neurological disorders have historically provided key insights into the
structure-function relationships that subserve human social cognition and behavior …

The role of left and right hemisphere brain regions in language recovery after stroke-induced
aphasia remains controversial. Here, we summarize how neuroimaging studies increase the …

While traditional models of language comprehension have focused on the left posterior
temporal cortex as the neurological basis for language comprehension, lesion and …

Background Aphasia is an important stroke sequel that impacts negatively on the HQoL of
stroke patients. Although a number of stroke patients with aphasia will have good functional …

In the last 25 years, characterization of aphasia has shifted from descriptions of the
language tasks that are impaired by brain damage to identification of the disrupted cognitive …

Background and Purpose—Previous studies have suggested that patients' potential for
poststroke language recovery is related to lesion size; however, lesion location may also be …

The successful motor rehabilitation of stroke patients requires early intensive and task-
specific therapy. A recent Cochrane Review, although based on a limited number of …

The ability to comprehend and produce speech after stroke depends on whether the areas
of the brain that support language have been damaged. Here, we review two different ways …

Objectives: To review the literature on the specific role of the right cerebral hemisphere
during recovery from aphasia in order to address the lack of consensus among authors. To …

The divide-and-conquer approach to the study of human cognition has succeeded in
focusing researchers' efforts on behavioral phenomena that fall under well-defined …