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Language, thought, and the brain / Tatyana B. Glezerman and Victoria T. Balkoski.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Glezerman, T. B. (Tatiana Borisovna)
- Series:
- Cognition and Language: A Series in Psycholinguistics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neurolinguistics.
- Psycholinguistics.
- Cognition.
- Psychology, Pathological.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (344 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2002.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Kluwer Academic, c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 clinical aspect represents not only loss of function of the damaged area, but also results from the interaction between damaged and intact areas of the brain.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-20718-3
- 9786610207183
- 0-306-47165-5
- 0-585-31179-X
- OCLC:
- 54885962
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