Name: David Caplan, M.D., Ph.D.
MGH Appointment: Neurologist
HMS Appointment: Professor of Neurology
MGH Address: VBK 827
MGH Phone Number: 726-3274
Patient Office Phone Number: 726-5533
Patient Office Location: ACC 835
E-Mail Address: caplan@helix.mgh.harvard.edu
Fax Number: 726-6991
Undergraduate Education: MIT
Graduate And/Or Medical School: McGill
Residencies And Fellowships: Harvard Longwood Neurology Program
Foreign Language Spoken: French
Certification By An American Specialty Board: ABPN
Primary Specialty: Neurology
Other Specialties:
Research Interests: Aphasia; Neuropsychology, Language Disorders.
Clinical Interests: Telencephalic Disease, Stroke, CHI
Representative Publications:
D. Caplan; Neurolinguistics and Linguistic Aphasiology, Cambridge
University Press, 1987
D. Caplan: Language Structure, Processing and Disorders, MIT Press, 1992
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Book
Description
Profoundly influenced by the analyses of contemporary linguistics, these
original contributions bring a number of different views to bear on important
issues in a controversial area of study. The linguistic structures and
language-related processes the book deals with are for the most part central
(syntactic structures, phonological representations, semantic readings) rather
than peripheral (acoustic-phonetic structures and the perception and production
of these structures) aspects of language. Each section of the book has a
summarizing introduction.
Language
: Structure, Processing, and Disorders (Issues in the Biology of Language and
Cognition)
Editorial
Reviews
From Book News, Inc. , November 1, 1992
The author, a neurologist, presents the theoretical underpinnings of recent
linguistic and psycholinguistic research on language disorders in adults with
neurological disease. Although intended for clinicians (and for researchers in
experimental psychology, linguistics, and related fields), this synopsis is not
a guide to clinical practice; its emphasis is concepts and models, with chapters
organized around basic linguistic processes. Annotation copyright Book News,
Inc. Portland, Or. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable
edition of this title.
Book
Description
I do not know of any other work that approaches the scope and detail of the
Caplan book for introductory treatment of contemporary language processing
theory in the study of language disorders....This is a very good book,
thoughtfully developed for its audience, and it will serve that audience
well." -- Merrill Garrett, Contemporary Psychology
This
theoretical guide for speech-language pathologists, neuropsychologists,
neurologists, and cognitive psychologists describes the linguistic and
psycholinguistic bases of aphasias that are a result of acquired neurological
disease. Chapters are organized around basic linguistic processes such as spoken
word recognition, semantics, spoken word production, reading and writing of
single words, and more complex processes such as sentence production and
discourse structures.
About
the Author
David Caplan is Associate
Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, Adjunct Associate Professor in
the Departments of Neurology and Communication at Boston University, Associate
Neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Visiting Lecturer in the
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.