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Language, Interaction and Frontotemporal Dementia - Reverse Engineering the Social Mind (Hardcover)
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Language, Interaction and Frontotemporal Dementia - Reverse Engineering the Social Mind (Hardcover)
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In the past before improving technologies allowed for the direct
observation of brain activity, brain damaged patients were a prime
avenue for understanding language structure and inferring back to
brain function. Now with the rapid developments in neuroscience,
what we do know about the brain can inform us about language
allowing us to build hypotheses about the role particular brain
regions perform in language use. Brain damaged patients thus become
populations which serve as test cases. In this volume, the
researchers focus on the interactions of frontotemporal dementia
patients. These patients have right hemisphere, frontal and
temporal pole atrophy which leaves their cognitive abilities
intact, but their social interactions impaired and their
personalities changed. The volume opens with a discussion of the
frontal lobes and their expected contributions to language as a
tool for social interaction. Then a conversation analytic approach
is applied to analyze what changes in the structure of interaction
lead to a sense that the interactions are impaired or
inappropriate. Finally, the volume ends with a look forward to what
FTD contributes to our understanding of human sociality and what
has been gained in our understanding of the brain and language.
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