In the chaos that is my mind at this hour —<\/p>\n
Brain damage such as stroke can take away the symbolic processing ability known as language. I wonder: does the most obvious kind of sign-language, pointing and miming, go with it? And do Deaf signers so afflicted lose more or less of the naïve sign-language than the hearing do? In one sense these questions have no meaningful answer, because every stroke is different; but there must be interesting correlations.<\/p>\n
Does stroke ever take away the ability to process conditional or relative clauses?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the chaos that is my mind at this hour — Brain damage such as stroke can take away the symbolic processing ability known as language. I wonder: does the most obvious kind of sign-language, pointing and miming, go with … Continue reading