On the Biological Foundations of Language: Recent Advances in Language Acquisition, Deterioration, and Neuroscience Begin to Converge

In this paper, experimental results on the study of language loss in pro- dromal Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in the elderly are linked to experimen- tal results from the study of language acquisition in the child, via a tran- sitional stage of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). Recent brain imag- ing res...

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Main Authors: Barbara Lust, Suzanne Flynn, Janet Cohen Sherman, Charles R. Henderson, Jr., James Gair, Marc Harrison, Leah Shabo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Biolinguistics 2017-12-01
Series:Biolinguistics
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Online Access:https://biolinguistics.eu/index.php/biolinguistics/article/view/524