Representation of the world in patients with aphasia

Human intellectual capabilities are the result of Nature’s creative activity: this view is present in the opinions of many scholars and thinkers. The phylogenetically and ontogenetically earlier processes, automatic and unconscious, are covered by intentional, conscious, planned and controlled functions shaped late in the development of the human species and formed in the late stage of every individual’s development. According to the Herder-Humboldt thesis, utterances contain a certain form of thinking, hence it should be expected that the aphasic disintegration of speech produces changes at the level of cognitive structures in aphasic persons. Cerebral pathomechanisms that have a direct or indirect impact on the processes of human cognitive processes have been mostly identified and described. Cognitive disorders in persons with neurological conditions manifest themselves differently, depending on: the etiology of brain damage, the range and location of pathological changes in nervous tissue, the course of a neurological disease, stages of its treatment, and rehabilitation results.