Different language impairments allow us to investigate how much the use of language can influence the content of conscious awareness and therefore of thinking and reasoning. Pure anarthria (differently form mutism) and verbal short-term memory deficits are associated with an impairment of the effect of covert speech on the content of working memory. Dynamic aphasia impairs the processes involved in the transition between thinking and speaking. However, even the most severe agrammatic patients can retain reasoning about others ’ beliefs that according to some theories can only take place in explicit sentences of a natural language.Error monitoring is also impaired in many aphasic patients and in some of them is associated with complete lack of error awareness (anosognosia for aphasia).

Consciousness and Aphasia / Nichelli, P.F. - In: The Neurology of Consciousness / S. Laureys, G. Tognoni. - STAMPA. - Amsterdam : Elsevier Ltd, 2009. - ISBN 9780123741684. - pp. 352-359 [10.1016/B978-0-12-374168-4.00026-5]

Consciousness and Aphasia

NICHELLI, Paolo Frigio
2009

Abstract

Different language impairments allow us to investigate how much the use of language can influence the content of conscious awareness and therefore of thinking and reasoning. Pure anarthria (differently form mutism) and verbal short-term memory deficits are associated with an impairment of the effect of covert speech on the content of working memory. Dynamic aphasia impairs the processes involved in the transition between thinking and speaking. However, even the most severe agrammatic patients can retain reasoning about others ’ beliefs that according to some theories can only take place in explicit sentences of a natural language.Error monitoring is also impaired in many aphasic patients and in some of them is associated with complete lack of error awareness (anosognosia for aphasia).
2009
Inglese
WOS:000316668600028
2-s2.0-84882533774
The Neurology of Consciousness
352
359
9780123741684
Elsevier Ltd
PAESI BASSI
Amsterdam
Consciouness; Aphasia
Understanding consciousness is the major unsolved problem in biology. One increasingly important method of studying consciousness is to study disorders of consciousness, e.g. brain damage and disease states leading to vegetative states, coma, minimally conscious states, etc. Many of these studies are very much in the public eye because of their relationship to controversies about coma patients (e.g. Terry Schiavo case in the US recently), and the relationship to one of the major philosophical, sociological, political, and religious questions of humankind. This is the first book to summarize our current understanding of the neuroanatomical and functional underpinnings of human consciousness by emphasizing a lesional approach offered via the study of neurological patients. The selected contributors are all outstanding authors and undisputed leaders in their field."Laureys and the Liege school have shifted the paradigm in the clinical understanding of disturbed consciousness. He and Tononi have edited a ground breaking book. In this field the book to have and read next to Plum and Posner's Diagnosis of Stupor and Coma is now Laureys and Tononi. Clinicians need to be aware of the recent rapid advances in consciousness studies, many occasioned by imaging and non-invasive brain monitoring, because they will affect management of their most vulnerable patients." - Richard Frackowiak, University College London and Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris "An outstandingly unique book reassembling the most recent data of the rising science of consciousness." - Jean-Pierre Changeux, College de France ?Here, at last, is a survey of the way that damage to the brain alters consciousness. This volume is a well-equipped hardware shop with most of the pieces that are needed to build a state-of-the-art model of how the brain performs its most magical function, the creation of a self that sees, perceives, knows that it does so, and dares to ask how.? - Allan Hobson, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Consciousness and Aphasia / Nichelli, P.F. - In: The Neurology of Consciousness / S. Laureys, G. Tognoni. - STAMPA. - Amsterdam : Elsevier Ltd, 2009. - ISBN 9780123741684. - pp. 352-359 [10.1016/B978-0-12-374168-4.00026-5]
Nichelli, Paolo Frigio
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