Download or read book Channels of Communication and Related Factors Inf written by W. Drew Gouvier and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special issue brings together a group of articles related to aspects of disturbed language use and understanding. Relevant to persons in the practice of neuropsychology and rehabilitation psychology, the articles: *review and integrate a systematic program of research that examines core functional abilities that underlie the process of reading; *offer a replication of a previous work with persons with schizophrenia, which demonstrated a frequent superiority of monaural versus binaural language comprehension; *offer a thorough compilation of results from research on emotional processing; *introduce the role of the prosodic channel in communication and provide a description and classification scheme for the various prosodic disorders; and *examine the impact of variations in the prosodic and lexical channels of speech.