Speech and Brain Mechanisms /

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The outcome of ten years' work, this book is a carefully planned study of brain dominance, aphasia, and other speech disturbances, and includes a discussion of the cerebral mechanisms of speech and the learning and teaching of language.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Penfield, Wilder, 1891-1976 (Author), Roberts, Lamar (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014
Series:Vanuxem lectures ; 1956.
Princeton legacy library.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Speech disorders.
Speech.
Brain > Localization of functions.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction (W.P.)
  • Functional organization of the human brain, discriminative sensation, voluntary movement (W.P.)
  • The recording of consciousness and the function of interpretive cortex (W.P.)
  • Analysis of literature (L.R.)
  • Methods of investigation (L.R.)
  • Handedness and cerebral dominance (L.R.)
  • Mapping the speech area (W.P.)
  • The evidence from cortical mapping (L.R.)
  • The evidence from cortical excision (L.R.)
  • Concluding discussion (W.P.)
  • Epilogue : the learning of languages (W.P.).

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