Project:

Modeling aphasia: Language skills in own and foreign language

Mentor (Advisor):

Prof. MUDr Pavel Kalvach, CSc, FEAN

Department:

Dept. of Neurology, Third Faculty of Medicine

Contact information:

, 267163657

Project Narrative:

Various sorts of language disturbances in patients with cerebral lesions could be compared with different degrees of ignorance in foreign language. The project aims at illustrating the capacity of naming, perception and repetition in a model of foreign language insufficiency. It will pursue performance of working and short term memory as well as cognition, cogitation and speech execution, i.e. mainly frontotemporal efficiency of the dominant hemisphere.

Requirements for student applicants:

MD. The interval from graduation is not relevant; the ability of systematic and tenacious work necessary, knowledge of two languages besides of the mother language favorable