Neuropsychology of Communication

This volume explores the communicative and neuropsychological correlates of the daily interactions we have with our fellow human beings. It covers new methodological approaches, paying particular attention to neuroimaging and brain stimulation techniques.

In this volume, the communicative and neuropsychological correlates of daily interactions are discussed. The predominant account on explaining the construction of meaning by humans is the inter-relational perspective, that postulates an intentional convergence of meaning arising as a consequence of the active exchanges between people. The neural correlates of communication were illustrated in the light of new empirical results, considering the main topics of: a) language and language development; b) pragmatics and neuropragmatics of communication; c) neurocognition and the cognitive bases of intentions; d) nonverbal communication and emotion contribution to the communicative systems.

New methodological approaches are considered, with particular attention to neuroimaging (such as PET and fMRI) and brain stimulation techniques (as MEG and TMS), as well as their application to the clinical field.

No other book has widely explored the topic of the neuropsychology of communication from both cognitive and neuropsychological perspectives This integrated perspective makes the contribution highly innovative and unique within the recent scientific field Moreover, methodological contribution of new neuropsychological techniques was exhaustively considered for the first time by the book

Klappentext
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 active exchanges between people. The neural correlates of communication are described on the basis of new empirical results, with particular focus on language and language development, pragmatics and neuropragmatics of communication, neurocognition and the cognitive bases of intentions, nonverbal communication and emotion contribution to communicative systems. In addition, new methodological approaches are described, such as neuroimaging (PET and fMRI), and brain stimulation techniques (MEG and TMS), as well as their applications in research and in the clinical field.

Inhalt
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.