Course Title:
"More Than Words: The Neuropsychology of Nonsemantic Aspects of Language and
Communication"

Topics to be covered
It's Not Just What You Say, It's How You Say It: Prosody & the Aprosodias
(Emotional and other varieties of the perception and production of nonverbal
aspects of speech); Brain systems and music

The Meaning of Space and Time: How acquired & developmental disorders of
spatial and temporal processing can affect language functioning; Speech
Apraxia

Do the "Ear and Mouth" Brain Systems Mediating Speech Do Something
Different When the Connection is between Hand and Eye : What has sign
language taught us about the brain and language?

Language, Intelligence, & Social Function: What do Asperger's Syndrome,
Autism, and Wilson's Syndrome tell us about the role of language;
Consciousness, Self-Awareness, and Theory of Mind