When words fail us: Insights into language processing from developmental and acquired disorders

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1634, 2014, Pages

  Bishop, Dorothy V M ^a   Nation, Kate ^a   Patterson, Karalyn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Cognitive neuropsychology; Connectionist models; Development; Dyslexia; Specific language impairment

Indexed keywords

APHASIA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COGNITION; COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; CONNECTIONIST MODELS; DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL LANGUAGE DISORDER; DYSLEXIA; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEARNING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

APHASIA; COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; CONNECTIONIST MODELS; DEVELOPMENT; DYSLEXIA; SPECIFIC LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT;

COGNITION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 84889833548     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0403     Document Type: Editorial

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