Neuropsychology of Communication

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Balconi, Michela (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Milano : Springer Milan, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Speech pathology.; Linguistics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Speech Pathology.; Linguistics, general.

The volume focuses on the neuropsychological correlates of communication in daily interactions. The predominant account in explaining the construction of meaning by humans is the inter-relational perspective, which postulates an intentional convergence of meaning arising as a consequence of the acti...

Table of Contents:

• The Neuropsychology of Language and Communication
• Biological Basis of Linguistic and Communicative Systems: From Neurolinguistics to Neuropragmatics
• Methods and Research Perspectives on the Neuropsychology of Communication
• Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in the Study of Language and Communication
• Electromagnetic Indices of Language Processing
• Neuropragmatics. Psychophysiological, Neuropsychological and Cognitive Correlates
• From Pragmatics to Neuropragmatics
• Idiomatic Language Comprehension: Neuropsychological Evidence
• Anticipatory Mechanisms in Idiom Comprehension: Psycholinguistic and Electrophysiological Evidence
• Towards a Neurophysiology of Language
• From Intentions to Nonverbal Communication
• Intentions and Communication: Cognitive Strategies, Metacognition and Social Cognition
• The Neuropsychology of Nonverbal Communication: The Facial Expressions of Emotions
• Emotions, Attitudes and Personality: Psychophysiological Correlates.