title: Language-based cognitive abilities in adult aphasia: rationale for intervention.
abstract: The purpose of this investigation is to explore operational definitions of cognition, intelligence, information processing, language-based cognitive abilities, cognitive processes and products, problem solving, decision making, and the complex events that happen in the brain when one stimulates a patient. These definitions are explored in order to develop a coherent and generative rationale for therapy. It is hypothesized that a specification of the underlying targets of our stimulation therapy may increase the effectiveness of our intervention efforts.
mesh_terms: D001037:Aphasia / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D001244:Association; D003071:Cognition; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D007600:Judgment; D007808:Language Therapy / Q000379:methods; D007858:Learning; D008568:Memory; D008959:Models, Neurological; D011340:Problem Solving; D013850:Thinking