Broca's region / edited by Yosef Grodzinsky, Katrin Amunts.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grodzinsky, Yosef.

Amunts, Katrin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Broca's area.

Neurolinguistics.

Psycholinguistics.

Frontal lobes.

Sign language.

Aphasia.

Broca, Paul, 1824-1880.

Broca, Paul.

Broca Area.

Aphasia, Broca.

Frontal Lobe.

Sign Language.

Medical Subjects:

Broca Area.

Aphasia, Broca.

Frontal Lobe.

Psycholinguistics.

Sign Language.

Aphasia.

Physical Description:

1 Online-Resource (xv, 419 pages, [16] pages of plates) illustrations (some color.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Paul Broca, the discoverer of Broca's region, was one of the first scientists to equate a significant piece of behaviour - articulated language - with a piece of neural tissue. This text creates a coherent, novel picture of the state of contemporary knowledge on the structure and function of the region.

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Introduction; I. Matters Anatomical; 1. The Origin of Broca's Area and Its Connections from an Ancestral Working Memory Network ; 2. A Multimodal Analysis of Structure and Function in Broca's Region ; 3. Broca's Area in the Human and the Nonhuman Primate Brain ; II. Matters Linguistic; 4. Weak Syntax; 5. Speech Production in Broca's Agrammatic Aphasia: Syntactic Tree Pruning; 6. A Blueprint for a Brain Map of Syntax; 7. Evaluating Deficit Patterns of Broca's Aphasics in the Presence of High Intersubject Variability; 8. Treating Language Deficits in Broca's Aphasia

III. Motor Aspects and Sign Language9. Broca's Region: A Speech Area?; 10. Broca's Area in System Perspective: Language in the Context of Action-Oriented Perception ; 11. The Role of Broca's Area in Sign Language ; IV. Psycholinguistic Investigations; 12. Broca's Area and Lexical-Semantic Processing; 13. The Neural Basis of Sentence Processing: Inferior Frontal and Temporal Contributions; 14. Involvement of the Left and Right Frontal Operculum in Speech and Nonspeech Perception and Production ; 15. On Broca, Brain, and Binding

16. A Role for Broca's Area Beyond Language Processing: Evidence from Neuropsychology and fMRIV. Discussion; 17. Jülich Workshop Excerpts; VI. Historical Articles: Choices We Made: An Introduction to the Historical Section; 18. Comments Regarding the Seat of the Faculty of Spoken Language, Followed by an Observation of Aphemia (Loss of Speech) (1861); 19. On Affections of Speech from Disease of the Brain (1878-1879); 20. On Aphasia (1885); 21. Contributions to a Histological Localization of the Cerebral Cortex-VI. Communication: The Division of the Human Cortex (1908)

22. The Agrammatical Language Disturbance: Studies on a Psychological Basis for the Teaching on Aphasia (1913)23. The Cytoarchitectonics of the Fields Constituting Broca's Area (1931); 24. The Phonological Development of Child Language and Aphasia as a Linguistic Problem (1956); 25. Grammatical Complexity and Aphasic Speech (1958); 26. The Organization of Language and the Brain (1970); 27. Broca's Area and Broca's Aphasia (1976); Author Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0-19-029223-7

0-19-803952-2

1-280-84505-8

1-4294-3871-1

OCLC:

466424242