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Interdisciplinary field concerned with the study of language processing and representation of language in the brain. Closely allied with psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, and a subdiscipline of neuropsychology, neurolinguistics studies disturbances in language comprehension and/or production associated with known central nervous system pathologies (
articulation disorder, developmental language disorder, language disorder, aphasia) or designs experiments, such as those involving dichotic listening, to test various processing models. Electrophysiological data, imaging, and ‘on-line’ measurement of memory phenomena are increasingly useful to research in this field.
References
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Bouton, C.P. 1991. Neurolinguistics: historical and theoretical perspectives. New York.
Caplan, D. 1987. Neurolinguistics and linguistic aphasiology. Cambridge.
Hecaen, H. and J.Dubois.
1969. La naissance de la neuropsychologie du langage: 1825–1865. Paris.
Lenneberg, E. 1967. Biological foundations of language. New York.
Lenneberg, E.H. and E.Lenneberg. 1975. Foundation of language development: a multidisciplinary approach. 2 vols. New York.
Luria, A. 1976. Basic problems of neurolinguistics. The Hague.
neuropsychology
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