DISTURBANCE OF GESTURE AND PANTOMIME IN APHASIA
DISTURBANCE OF GESTURE AND PANTOMIME IN APHASIA
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DOI:
10.1093/brain/86.4.703
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发表时间:
1963-01-01
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影响因子:
14.5
通讯作者:
KAPLAN, E
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作者:
GOODGLASS, H;KAPLAN, E
THE literature on aphasia from the middle 1800's includes references to the ability of aphasic patients to indicate, by means of pantomime, their awareness of certain things which they cannot verbalize, as for example, how to use an object which they cannot name. However, in practice, we were impressed with the rarity with which such pantomiming is comprehensible, and the frequency with which it consists of aimless waving which leaves the examiner guessing and the patient frustrated. The present paper deals with an experimental investigation of gesture and pantomime in aphasia. The brief historical review which follows attempts to bring into focus the relevant issues. In 1870 Finkelnburg (cited by Liepmann, 1905) introduced the concept of" asymbolia," a generalized disturbance in the capacity to express or comprehend symbols in any modality, including mimetic expression. Similarly, Jackson (1893) discussed pantomime in the context of" Words and Other Symbols." Subsequent workers including Brain (1961), Critchley (1939), Goldstein (1948) have treated the alterations in gesture and pantomime of aphasics as part of the aphasic communication disorder.Thus Finkelnburg's concept of a central communication disorder is still implied in discussions where gestural disturbance is treated as a direct correlate of aphasia. If this idea is interpreted rigorously, it postulates a defect in representational or symbolic movements without a coexisting disturbance of movement per se. While treating defects in gesture and pantomime as a communication disorder in aphasia, many writers also discuss these defects in a quite different sense, in the context of ideokinetic apraxia: a disorder specific to movement. In ideokinetic