Editorial Board Members' Collection Series: Language Disorders and Cognitive Aging
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Neurolinguistics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2024 | Viewed by 67
Special Issue Editor
2. Centre de Recherche CERVO (CERVO Brain Research Centre), Québec, QC G1J 2G3, Canada
Interests: speech-language pathology; neuropsychology; neurolinguistics; cognition; neurodegenerative diseases; assessment; semantics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Research on cognitive aging in humans has generally shown that abilities gradually decline with age. However, these changes do not occur equally in all cognitive domains and tend to affect attention, memory and executive functions. The incidence of age-related diseases, including major neurocognitive disorders (MNCDs), which refer to a progressive decline in cognitive function that significantly affects activities of daily living. While MNCDs are commonly associated with impaired episodic memory, they are also characterized by language deficits that affect comprehension and production abilities. Clinical linguistic profiles commonly associated with common forms of MNCDs have been described, some in more detail than others. Neurolinguistic studies have also gone beyond the mere description of symptoms and identified the functional localization of impaired and preserved processing components of the language processing system in dementia.
In this special issue on Language Disorders and Cognitive Aging, all aspects (either theoretical or experimental studies) of original research articles and reviews on this topic are welcome. This may include, for example, the specific characterization of language impairments in MNCDs and their relationships with other cognitive deficits, new techniques or tools for the assessment of language and communication impairments in MNCDs, outcomes of behavioral interventions for language and communication impairments associated with MNCDs, etc
Prof. Dr. Joel Macoir
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- major neurocognitive disorders
- cognitive function
- episodic memory
- language deficits
- language impairments
