NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE - Carlo Semenza
This program will be adapted, in order to avoid possible overlap with
the content of other courses. The historical and methodological parts will be
given special emphasis, as well as the cognitive approach. Prof. Semenza's own
work on both methodology and lexical semantics will be reported in detail if enough of the general program will be
covered by others.
The history of aphasiology. The
"diagram makers" and their models. Criticisms to the diagram makers.
The rediscovery of the Wernicke-Lichtheim model in the second part of the 20th
century: the neuroanatomical model of Geschwind. The foundation of
neurolinguistics. Cognitive neuropsychology.
Neurological foundations of
language and clinical aspects of aphasia: update and modern views.
Phonology, morphology,
syntax and semantics: The psycholinguistic approach.
The talking machine: The cognitive
approach. The organisation of the lexical system. The internal structure of
words. Reading and spelling of single words. Spoken word production. The
production of different word categories. Sentence production and comprehension.
Semantic memory.
Bibliography:
Denes G and Pizzamiglio L (Eds). Handbook of Neuropsychology.
Psychology Press (1999). Chapters 7,8,9,10,11,12,14.
Rapp B (Ed). The Handbook of
Cognitive Neuropsychology. Psychology Press (2001). Chapters 8,9,10,11,12,
14,15, 17.
Semenza C. Methodological
Issues. In Beaumont, Kenealy and Rogers (Eds) The Blackwell Dictionary of
Neuropsychology. Blackwell (1996).