Reader in the history of aphasia : from (Franz) Gall to (Norman) Geschwind / edited by Paul Eling.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eling, Paul.

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Classics in psycholinguistics ; Series II, v. 4.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series II, Classics in psycholinguistics, 0165-716X ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aphasia--History--Sources.

Aphasia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (408 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The study of language and the brain is heavily dependent on the work of the early aphasiologists, and those wanting to get acquainted with the discipline will come across frequent references to these classic authors. This collection brings together seminal publications by 19th- and 20th-century neurologists concerned with the relationship between language and the brain. In selecting texts the emphasis was on those parts that deal explicitly with the opinion of an author on language processes as revealed by aphasic phenomena. All texts are presented in English (many of them translated for the f

Contents:

READER IN THE HISTORY OF APHASIA; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Foreword; Introduction; Franz Joseph Gall; Biography; Introduction; References; Letter from Dr. F. J. Gall to Mr. Joseph F. von Retzeron the prodromus he has completed on the functions of the human and animal brain; I. Abilities and propensities are innate in men and animals.; II. The abilities and propensities are situated in the brain.

III. IV. Not only do the abilities differ essentially and independently from the propensities, but also the capabilities and propensities per se among themselves differ essentially and independently from each other therefore they must be situated in different and independent parts of the brain.; V. Different forms of the brain develop from the different distributions of the different organs and their different development.; VI. Out of the combination and the development of certain organs a certain form emerges, both of the entire brain and of its specific parts or their surroundings.

VII. From the origin of the bones of the skull until old age, the form of the inner of the cranium is determined by the external form of the brain consequently certain abilities and propensities can be concluded from the form of the outer surface of the cranium as long as it agrees with the inner form or does not diverge from the known deviations.; Paul Broca; Biography; Selected Bibliography; Introduction; Setting the Scene; Broca's claims; Broca on language; Evaluation of Broca's contribution; References; Selection from the work of Paul Broca

Notes on the site of the faculty of articulated language, followed by an observation of aphemia Aphemia, lasting twenty-one years, produced by chronic and progressive softening of the second and third convolutions of the superior layer of the left frontal lobe.; Complete atrophy of the insular lobe and of the third convolution of the frontal lobe with preservation of the intelligence and the faculty of articulated language.*- Observations by Dr. Parrot, hospital physician -; On the site of the faculty of articulated language; Carl Wernicke; Selection from the work of Carl Wernicke

The Aphasia Symptom-Complex: A Psychological Study on an Anatomical Basis Some new studies on aphasia; Notes; References; Biography; Selected Bibliography; Introduction; Wernicke on Aphasia; References; Henry Charlton Bastian; Biography; Selected Bibliography; Introduction; References; Selection from the work of Henry Charlton Bastian; THE LUMLEIAN LECTURES Some Problems in Connection with Aphasia and other Speech Defects; The various kinds of word memory; The localisation of the different word-centres; Further Problems in Regard to the Localization of Higher Cerebral Functions; Notes

References

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Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-32800-3

9786613328007

90-272-7668-4

OCLC:

769189622