Verbal Perseveration: A Special Issue of Aphasiology

by Stark,Jacqueline Ann

• ISBN13: 9781841698342
• ISBN10: 1841698342
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-09-12
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

Introductory textbooks on neurogenic communication disorders associated with aphasia and brain injury do not provide full documentation of the pervasive influence of perseveration in the diagnosis and treatment of clients with severe language processing deficits. This special issue of Aphasiology aims to revives the profound interest in verbal perseveration observed in the classical German literature between 1890 and 1931. Various aspects of the phenomenon of perseveration are addressed in this issue. When and under what circumstances do perseverations occur? What are the characteristics of perseverative errors and how do they relate to non-perseverative sound and word errors? The papers share a common goal, namely to understand the origin of the phenomenon 'perseveration' in healthy subjects and clients with brain damage and injury. An overarching claim throughout the papers is that perseveration reflects the client's primary language processing deficits.

Table of Contents

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Interference effect of observed human movement on action is due to velocity profile of biological motion

Face to Face: Blocking facial muscles selectively impairs recognition of emotional face

Facial expressions: what the mirror neuron system can and cannot tell us

Imitation of in-group versus out-group members facial expressions of anger: a test with a time perception task

The face of rejection

The Neural Substrates of Cognitive Empathy

Different circuits for different pain: Patterns of functional connectivity reveal distinct networks for processing pain in self and others

Enduring Depersonalisation: The Role of Self-Related Processes

Infant Genotype May Moderate Sensitivity to Maternal Affective Communications: Attachment Disorganization, Quality of Care, and the DRD4 Polymorphism

Only Connect? Communication, Identification

The Self as a Moral Agent: Linking the Neural Bases of Social Agency and Moral Sensitivity

Simulation trouble

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