Speech and brain-mechanisms / by Wilder Penfield and Lamar Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Penfield, Wilder, 1891-1976, co-author.

Roberts, Lamar, author.

Contributor:

Murray Printing Company, printer.

The Mark B. Adams Emergence of Modern Science Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Atheneum paperbacks ; 88.

Atheneum paperbacks. ; 88

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brain--Localization of functions.

Brain.

Speech.

Speech disorders.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (former owner) (autograph) (Adams copy)

Physical Description:

xiv unnumbered pages, 286 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Atheneum, New York, 1966.

Contents:

Preface

Vanuxem Lectures

Preamble to the Vanuxem Lectures

Introduction

Functional organization of the human brain, discriminative sensation, voluntary movement

The Recording of consciousness and the function of interpretive cortex

Analysis of literature

Methods of investigation

Handedness and cerebral dominance

Mapping the speech area

The Evidence from cortical mapping

The Evidence from cortical excision

Concluding discussion

Epilogue - the learning of languages

Bibliography

Case index

General index.

Notes:

"General conclusions embodied in this monograph were presented by Wilder Penfield in the Vanuxem lectures at Princeton University in February, 1956," p. [ix].

Reprint. Originally published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1959.

"Printed in the United States of America by The Murray Printing Company, Forge Village, Massachusetts, bound by the Colonial Press, Inc., Clinton, Massachusetts, published in Canada by McClelland & Stewart Ltd." title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-279) and index.

With publishers' advertisements at the back.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.

ISBN:

0689701527

9780689701528

OCLC:

461739828