TY - JOUR
T1 - Aphasia
T2 - Progress in the last quarter of a century
AU - Hillis, Argye E.
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported by NIH (NIDCD) through R01 DC 05375.
PY - 2007/7
Y1 - 2007/7
N2 - In the last 25 years, characterization of aphasia has shifted from descriptions of the language tasks that are impaired by brain damage to identification of the disrupted cognitive processes underlying language. At the same time advances in technology, including functional imaging, electrophysiologic studies, perfusion imaging, diffusion tensor imaging, and transcranial magnetic stimulation, have led to new insights regarding the relationships between language and the brain. These insights, together with computational models of language processes, converge on the view that a given language task relies on a complex set of cognitive processes and representations carried out by an intricate network of neural regions working together. Recovery from aphasia depends on restoration of tissue function or reorganization of the cognitive/neural network underlying language, which can be facilitated by a number of diverse interventions. The original research by the author reported in this article was supported by NIH R01 DC05375.
AB - In the last 25 years, characterization of aphasia has shifted from descriptions of the language tasks that are impaired by brain damage to identification of the disrupted cognitive processes underlying language. At the same time advances in technology, including functional imaging, electrophysiologic studies, perfusion imaging, diffusion tensor imaging, and transcranial magnetic stimulation, have led to new insights regarding the relationships between language and the brain. These insights, together with computational models of language processes, converge on the view that a given language task relies on a complex set of cognitive processes and representations carried out by an intricate network of neural regions working together. Recovery from aphasia depends on restoration of tissue function or reorganization of the cognitive/neural network underlying language, which can be facilitated by a number of diverse interventions. The original research by the author reported in this article was supported by NIH R01 DC05375.
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U2 - 10.1212/01.wnl.0000265600.69385.6f
DO - 10.1212/01.wnl.0000265600.69385.6f
M3 - Review article
C2 - 17620554
AN - SCOPUS:34447338870
SN - 0028-3878
VL - 69
SP - 200
EP - 213
JO - Neurology
JF - Neurology
IS - 2
ER -