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Language, thought, and the brain /

Drawing on a wide variety of modern and classical sources and multiple disciplines, this book presents hypothesizes about the relationship between human language and thought to brain specialization. The authors focus on aphasia-language disorder resulting from local brain damage and show that the cl...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Glezerman, T. B. (Tatʹi͡ana Borisovna)
Other Authors: Balkoski, Victoria I.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Kluwer Academic, ©1999.
Series:Cognition and language.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Introduction to the Problem and Approach
  • Basic Factors in the Human Brain's Differentiation Underlying Cerebral Organization of Language Ability
  • Cerebral Organization of Language and Thought
  • Temporal-Occipital Region: Visual Object Perception, Thought and Word
  • Temporal Region and "Sound-Articulate" Speech
  • Parietal-Occipital Region: Spatial Perception and Word Form
  • Frontal Region: Thought and Sentence
  • Conclusions, Reflections, Perspectives
  • Thought and Focal Brain Damage
  • Perspectives for Psychiatry
  • References
  • Index.