Background Aphasia is an acquired language impairment following brain damage that
affects some or all language modalities: expression and understanding of speech, reading …

The aim of this article is to describe aphasia using the framework provided by the World
Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) …

This book updates the Dual Coding Theory of mind (DCT), a theory of modern human
cognition consisting of separate but interconnected nonverbal and verbal systems. Allan …

This textbook augments the first edition through the inclusion of a set of reseach and review
papers selected by the authors to supplement the contents of each chapter by providing a …

Background: Several studies have shown that traditional standardised aphasia tests may not
be sensitive enough to adequately assess linguistic deficits and recovery patterns in …

This experiment examined the hypothesis that training production of syntactically complex
sentences results in generalization to less complex sentences that have processes in …

Background: Verbs and sentences are often impaired in individuals with aphasia, and
differential impairment patterns are associated with different types of aphasia. With currently …

The narrative production of patients with Broca's aphasia and age-and education-matched
control subjects was analyzed using the Quantitative Production Analysis (Saffran et al …

This is the first single-authored book to attempt to bridge the gap between aphasia research
and the rehabilitation of patients with this language disorder. Studies of the deficits …

Aphasic patients often have more difficulty retrieving verbs than nouns. We present data
from eight aphasics demonstrating that they have a selective impairment for verb retrieval …