Language, Interaction and Frontotemporal Dementia - Reverse Engineering the Social Mind - Andrea W. Mates

Language, Interaction and Frontotemporal Dementia - Reverse Engineering the Social Mind - Andrea W. Mates

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Language, Interaction and Frontotemporal Dementia - Reverse Engineering the Social Mind - Andrea W. Mates

Andrea W. Mates [+-]
University of California, Los Angeles
Andrea W. Mates is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Rutgers University, USA. She is co-author of The Interactional Instinct, with Namhee Lee, John Schumann, Anna Dina L. Joaquin, and Lisa Mikesell.
Lisa Mikesell [+-]
Rutgers University
Lisa Mikesell is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Rutgers University.
Michael Sean Smith [+-]
University of California, Los Angeles
Michael Sean Smith is a doctoral student and is currently completing his PhD the Department of Applied Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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NEW IN PAPERBACK EDITION PUBLISHED DECEMBER 2013 In the past before improving technologies allowed for the direct observation of brain activity, brain damaged patients were a prime avenue for understanding language structure and inferring back to brain function. Now with the rapid developments in neuroscience, what has been discovered about the brain can inform our view of language allowing us to build hypotheses about the role particular brain regions perform in language use. Brain damaged patients thus become populations which serve as test cases. While technologies in neuroscience have improved, so has our understanding and techniques for observing and analyzing social and communicative behavior. FTD patients have right hemisphere, frontal and temporal pole atrophy which leaves their cognitive abilities intact, but their social interactions impaired and their personalities changed. The description of FTD as a pathological change in social behavior provides the motivation in this volume to apply ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approaches to the organization of patients' interactions. These approaches do more than document the disease and its effects on loved ones by revealing phenomena that can be analyzed empirically as causing systematic changes in the patients' social interactions. This volume opens with a discussion of the frontal lobes and their expected involvement in language use and social interaction. Several chapters then use conversation analysis to examine a range of FTD social behaviors in real-world interactions both in and outside of the clinic. The remaining chapters show how the ethnomethodological approach applied throughout the book can be helpful in better understanding the neurobiology of discourse, the process of socialization, and the role of social motives and moral emotions in maintaining relationships.

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Mates, Andrea W.; Mikesell, Lisa; Smith, Michael Sean. Acknowledgements. Language, Interaction and Frontotemporal Dementia - Reverse Engineering the Social Mind. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. vii - viii Jun 2010. ISBN 9781781790397. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=22109. Date accessed: 29 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.22109. Jun 2010

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