The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Language (Psychology Revivals) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1848723091 ISBN 13: 9781848723092

Publisher: Psychology Press, 2013

Synopsis

Damage to the brain can impair language in many different ways, severely harming some linguistic functions whilst sparing others. To achieve some understanding of the apparently bewildering diversity of language disorders, it is necessary to interpret impaired linguistic performance by relating it to a model of normal linguistic performance. Originally published in 1987, this book describes the application of such models of normal language processing to the interpretation of a wide variety of linguistic disorders. It deals with both the production and the comprehension of language, with language at both the sentence and the single-word level, with written as well as with spoken language and with acquired as well as with developmental disorders.

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Max Coltheart studied psychology at the University of Sydney and began his lecturing career there, subsequently teaching at the University of Waterloo in Canada and the University of Reading in England, before being appointed Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck College London, a position he held for twelve years before returning to Australia in 1987 to become Professor of Psychology at Macquarie University in Sydney. He is the author of about 150 journal articles and book chapters, co-author of "Language Processing in Children and Adults," and editor of nine collections including "Deep Dyslexi" and "The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Language," He was the founding editor of the journal "Cognitive Neuropsychology" and one of the founding editors of "Mind and Language,"

Martin Davies studied philosophy at Monash University in Melbourne and at the University of Oxford and spent eleven years at Birkbeck College London as lecturer and then reader in philosophy. In 1993 he became the Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy at Oxford, where he was a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. He returned to Australia in 2000 to take up a Professorship in the Philosophy Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. He is the author of "Meaning, Quantification, Necessity" and "Knowing What Thought Requires" and editor of three collections in the Readings in Mind and Language series. He was one of the founding editors of "Mind and Language,"

Edition details

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1848723091
• ISBN 13: 9781848723092
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432
• Editor: Coltheart Max, Sartori Giuseppe, Job Remo