80500
Neural Basis of Language - 3 Credits

COURSE OFFERING
Spring 2007
Ph.D. Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences
Graduate Center  of The City University of New York

80500 Neural Basis of Language
Thu 6:30-8:30

Instructor:
Loraine Obler lobler@gc.cuny.edu,  Valerie Shafer vshafer@gc.cuny.edu
212-817-8809                                         212-817-8805 (GC)

This course will explore theoretical models of the neural bases of language and how these models were developed using evidence from aphasiology and neurophysiology.  The history of methods used in the study of brain and language will be reviewed.  Research evidence for brain structure/language function relationships will be critically examined. After 10 classes that discuss different language levels (namely phonology, morphosyntax, lexicon, and discourse) from aphasiological and neurophysiological persectives, students will present oral papers on populations that have not been focused on this point in the class. These papers will be written up in place of a final exam.

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