Language as a Window into the Brain and its Pathologies

• Peter Garrard, St George’s, University of London St George’s Stroke and Dementia Research Centre, UK.
• Peter beim Graben, Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.
• Brita Elvevåg, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Tromsø University Hospital of North Norway Tromsø, Norway.
• Eduardo Mizraji, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Uruguay.
• Juan Valle-Lisboa, Facultad de Ciencias, y Fac de Psicología, Universidad de la República, Uruguay

Abstract

Traditionally, psycholinguistics and neuropsychology have been informed by conspicuous pathologies such as aphasia, which revealed the localization of some of the processes involved in language comprehension and production, in particular of those related to lexical access and morphological and syntactic processing. One of the main objectives of this symposium is to explore whether psychiatric pathologies are informative of the processes involved in meaning construction and comprehension, in the same way that aphasia research has contributed to our knowledge of the neurobiology of other aspects of language

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