Selective deficit of second language a case study of a brain-damaged Arabic-Hebrew bilingual patient 英文参考文献.docVIP

Behavioral and Brain Functions BioMedCentral Short paper Open Access Selective deficit of second language: a case study of a brain-damaged Arabic-Hebrew bilingual patient Raphiq Ibrahim1,2 Address: 1Department of Learning Disabilities, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel and 2Cognitive Neurology Unit, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel Email: Raphiq Ibrahim - raphiq@psy.haifa.ac.il Published: 12 March 2009 Received: 29 October 2008 Accepted: 12 March 2009 Behavioral and Brain Functions 2009, 5:17 doi:10.1186/1744-9081-5-17 This article is available from: /content/5/1/17 ? 2009 Ibrahim; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: An understanding of how two languages are represented in the human brain is best obtained from studies of bilingual patients who have sustained brain damage. The primary goal of the present study was to determine whether one or both languages of an Arabic-Hebrew bilingual individual are disrupted following brain damage. I present a case study of a bilingual patient, proficient in Arabic and Hebrew, who had sustained brain damage as a result of an intracranial hemorrhage related to herpes encephalitis. Methods: The patients performance on several linguistic tasks carried out in the first language (Arabic) and in the second language (Hebrew) was assessed, and his performance in the two languages was compared. Results: The patient displayed somewhat different symptomatologies in the two languages. The results revealed dissociation between the two languages in terms of both the types and the magnitude of errors, pointing to aphasic symptoms in both languages, with Hebrew being the more impaired. Further analysis disclosed