PSY 442 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Mental Image, Psy, Arnold Pick
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Another of the authors who considered aphasia from an exclusively psychological point of view was arnold pick (1851-1924). This author, like jackson, rejects the classic distinction between motor and sensory aphasia, calling them frontal and temporal respectively. Pick based his theory on theropositional language, proposing the distinction between a psychological level and a. That is, thought was first structured, and later language was formulated. For pick aphasia was therefore the result of the interruption of the processthat goes from thought to verbalproduction. He thus proposed a model of language production that included elements of semantics, morphology and phonology (manning, 1992). As a representationbefore the gothic theory of this period we highlight kurt goldstein (1878: who strongly opposed the associationism of diagrams defending a more holistic posture of the cognitive system. Despite harshly criticizing the classification of aphasias proposed by authors such as wernicke or lichteim, goldstein differentiated up to thirty forms of aphasia, falling into a clear contradiction (manning, 1992).