ABSTRACT
Our research in speech and language started in the early 1980s and focused primarily on topics in the field of aphasia rehabilitation. Nonverbal communication as a compensatory means of communication in severe aphasia, psychosocial alterations following aphasia and psychosocial adjustment to aphasia, the neuronal basis of depressive disorders in aphasic patients, and the investigation of specific goals of aphasia rehabilitation are just some of the topics that were originally influenced by Chris Code. Chris not only initiated part of our research but he also participated in several investigations. Even when we expanded the scope of our investigations into basic research (such as molecular neurobiology or the spatiotemporal analysis of neuronal correlates of number processing) Chris was with us – not only in a theoretical sense but also in person (i.e., spending sabbaticals in our labs or as a scientific fellow invited by the Hanse Institute for Advanced Studies). In this chapter, we try to delineate part of this cooperation between Chris and ourselves, which up to now has not only survived more than two decades but also bridged research on different continents.
