Non-treated languages in aphasia therapy of polyglots benefit from improvement in the treated language

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 135-150

  Miertsch, Barbara ^a   Meisel, Jürgen M ^a   Isel, Frédéric ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bilingual aphasia; Language recovery; Language treatment; Semantic conceptual system; Wernicke aphasia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONCEPT FORMATION; CORTICAL SENSORY APHASIA; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; SPEECH REHABILITATION; SPEECH THERAPY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 58149333700     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2008.07.003     Document Type: Article

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