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Defining ‘Normal’: methodological issues in Aphasia and intelligence research
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Theodore H. Weisenburg (1876-1934) and a series of colleagues embarked on a research program in 1927 to develop standardized tests to investigate the nature of language and intellectual impairments in aphasic and non-aphasic individuals. This project culminated in two significant contributions to neuropsychological testing (Weisenburg and MacBride, 1935; Weisenburg, Roe and McBride, 1936). After an initial study demonstrated the problematic aspects of Henry Head’s aphasia tests (1926), Weisenburg developed a new battery of tests which were given to individuals with aphasia. The significant innovation of this work was the original concept of a matched control group. This included those with other neurological impairments, and a range of non-neurologically impaired individuals with the aim of providing a characterization of what was ‘normal’. They identified many crucial participant variables regarding age, education, and socioeconomic status and used population statistics to ensure their control sample was representative. A detailed critical assessment of each of their successive elaborations is examined, focusing on the methodological innovations they represent. The contribution of this work to contemporaries and successive generations of neuropsychologists is examined regarding ongoing issues in clinical testing and research design.
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Cultures & Applied Linguistics (from 2021); Languages
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URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/cortex https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/48163/1/48163.pdf https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/48163/
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The East India Company Language Policy in the early 19th Century
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Victorian medical awareness of childhood language disabilities
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Beyond existing prosodic dichotomies: perception of aesthetic prosodic properties of speech and music in a right-hemisphere stroke patient
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The laryngoscope and 19th century British understanding of laryngeal movements
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Beyond existing prosodic dichotomies: Perception of aesthetic prosodic properties of speech and music in a right-hemisphere stroke patient ...
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Music and language expressiveness: When emotional character does not suffice: the dimension of expressiveness in the cognitive processing of music and language
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Investigating the biographical sources of Thomas Prendergast’s (1807-1886) innovation in language learning
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Preserved appreciation of aesthetic elements of speech and music prosody in an amusic individual: A holistic approach
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An ecological method for the sampling of nonverbal signalling behaviours of young children with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD)
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Morell Mackenzie’s contribution to the description of spasmodic dysphonia
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The third man: Robert Dunn’s (1799-1877) contribution to aphasia research in mid 19th century England
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Review of differential diagnosis and management of spasmodic dysphonia
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Tracing Spasmodic Dysphonia: the source of Ludwig Traube’s priority
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A late 19th-Century British perspective on modern foreign language learning, teaching, and reform: the legacy of Prendergast’s “Mastery System”
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The Victorian question of the relation between language and thought
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Singing by speechless (Aphasic) children: Victorian medical observations
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Examining language functions: a reassessment of Bastian's contribution to aphasia assessment
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