PSYCH 161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Kurt Goldstein, Pierre Marie, Vise
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Intelligence is always lamed in aphasia (coined. Preserved automatic language shows that basic language function is intact. What"s impaired is a general ability to. An aphasic will be lame in his thinking since. Aphasia = asymbolia (precursor = finkelnburg, 1870) Aphasia = disorder of thinking the disorder shows up in nonverbal tasks as well (drawing, gesture, symbol manipulation) influential attack on the diagram makers . Unconstrained proliferation of centers constituted bad science. Evident on non-linguistic tasks (color sorting, object classification) The left frontal convolution plays no special role in language function (1906) Sites cases with broca"s area lesions and no aphasia and vise versa. Argues for a unitary disorder, wernicke"s aphasia (broca"s = pure motor) Large scale controlled studies of aphasia addressed issues of domain specificity. 60 aphasics, 38 non-aphasic unilateral brain damage patients, 85 controls. Extensive test battery of verbal and non-verbal tests (drawing, blocks, etc. ) ->many aphasics did poorly on various non-verbal tests.
