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. 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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Product Description: La bateria EPLA, adaptación española del PALPA, es una batería de tests que puede servir de instrumento de evaluación de las capacidades psicolingüísticas de pacientes adultos con afasias adquiridas. El enfoque desde el que se ha elaborado EPLA es el de la Neuropsicologia Cognitiva y permite a psicólogos y neuropsicólogos, de orientación tanto teórica como aplicada, conocer con bastante detalle las habilidades lingüisticas intactas y las que han sufrido algún deterioro...read more