Communicating without a functioning language system: Implications for the role of language in mentalizing

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3130-3135

  Willems, Roel M ^a   Benn, Yael ^b   Hagoort, Peter ^a,c   Toni, Ivan ^a   Varley, Rosemary ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brain; Communication; Language; Mentalizing; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGRAMMATIC APHASIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMMUNICATION SKILL; GLOBAL APHASIA; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; SEMANTICS; STROKE; SUBDURAL EMPYEMA;

AGED; APHASIA; COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION DISORDERS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EMPYEMA, SUBDURAL; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; INTENTION; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STROKE; THEORY OF MIND;

EID: 80051790014     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.07.023     Document Type: Article

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