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sensorimotor aphasia

a combination of sensory or receptive aphasia and motor or expressive aphasia, in which there is impairment or loss of the ability to perceive and understand language as well as to use it. See also global aphasia.

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cognitive ethology

the study of mental experiences, including consciousness and intentionality, in nonhuman animals and of the influence of these experiences on the animals’ behavior as they interact with their natural environment. Whether, and which, animals actually possess consciousness and intentionality remains a subject of controversy. [proposed in 1978 by U.S. zoologist Donald Redfield Griffin (1915–2003)]