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{{Short description|1948 book by Kurt Goldstein}}
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'''''Language and Language Disturbances: Aphasic Symptom Complexes and Their Significance for Medicine and Theory of Language''''' is a book on [[aphasia]] by Dr. [[Kurt Goldstein]], published in 1948. In ''Language and Language Disturbances'', Goldstein theorized that a loss of abstract processing was the core deficit in aphasia.<ref>Davidoff, Jules. "Color terms and color concepts." ''Journal of Experimental Child Psychology'' 94, no. 4 (2006): 334-338.</ref>

In his work, Goldstein studied [[transcortical sensory aphasia]] (TSA), characterizing it as impaired auditory comprehension, with intact repetition and fluent speech.<ref>Boatman, Dana, Barry Gordon, John Hart, Ola Selnes, [[Diana Miglioretti]], and Frederick Lenz. "Transcortical sensory aphasia: revisited and revised." ''Brain'' 123, no. 8 (2000): 1634-1642.</ref> Goldstein studied word comprehension in patients with aphasia, theorizing that naming shows relatively little specificity to the site of lesion within the left hemisphere.<ref>Coughlan, A. K., and ELIZABETH K. WARRINGTON. "Word-comprehension and word-retrieval in patients with localized cerebral lesions." ''Brain'' 101, no. 1 (1978): 163-185.</ref>

Goldstein compared patients with damage restricted to the anterior portion of the left hemisphere (whose difficulties are primarily a matter of production) with those with exclusively posterior damage (whose difficulties lie chiefly in comprehension.<ref>Winner, Ellen, and Howard Gardner. "The comprehension of metaphor in brain-damaged patients." ''Brain'' 100, no. 4 (1977): 717-729.</ref>

Goldstein cited cases where patients experienced semantic confusion and could not verbalize certain words as a result of the brain damage. In one instance, a German patient of Goldstein's who could not name a handkerchief, said instead "''nas'putzen''" ("to blow one's nose").<ref>Lebrun, Wan, and Eric Buyssens. "Metalanguage and speech pathology." ''International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders'' 17, no. 1 (1982): 21-25.</ref>

==See also==
*[[Psychology]]
*[[Neurology]]
*[[Aphasia]]
**[[On Aphasia]], a book by Sigmund Freud

==References==
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[[Category:Works about neurology]]
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