Language and attention: a study with patients with brain lesions

Abstract

Introduction: As we consider Luria and Vigostski theories that states that the attention starts its development in the first period of life, socially and speaking as well. However, when we consider the reorganization of the attention of the individual, it can be reconstructed. This work studies the hypothesis that the attention, after the reorganization of the initial process, would be strongly involved in the linguistics task, which would result in a mutual constitutively: the language focus attention and attention turns back to the language. A basic guided Neurolinguistic (ND) was used as a theoric fundamentation. In the ND, the person is analyzed in relation to his social and historic life as the Lurian perspective. Also, in the ND the individual is not considered as a sample of the population as the statistics based in experimental tests but as an individual with a life story, reflecting on the methodology of the case. The attention, as a Lurian perspective, has a direct character and selective of mental process, being part of a complex functional system in which the attention and language are self related and also related to psycho process.Objective: The main scope of this work is to know which relations can be established between the language and attention, on the basis of signals presented in the speaking of those with injured brain.Method: Transcriptions and selections of sections of the Aphasics Acquaintanceship Center -Group II (CCA-IEL/ Unicamp) from the Neurolinguistic Data Bank (NDB/Integrated Project of Neuron Linguistic/CNPq 521773/95-4) were used (we focused five cases).