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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Penfield, Wilder, 1891-1976, author.

Roberts, Lamar, author.

Series:

Vanuxem lectures ; 1956.

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton legacy library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brain--Localization of functions.

Brain.

Speech.

Speech disorders.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1959]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.Originally published in 1959.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Vanuxem Lecturers at Princeton University

Preamble to the Vanuxem Lectures

Contents

Chapter I. Introduction

Chapter II. Functional Organization of the Human Brain, Discriminative Sensation, Voluntary Movement

Chapter III. The Recording of Consciousness and the Function of Interpretive Cortex

Chapter IV. Analysis of Literature

Chapter V. Methods of Investigation

Chapter VI. Handedness and Cerebral Dominance

Chapter VII. Mapping the Speech Area

Chapter VIII. The Evidence from Cortical Mapping

Chapter IX. The Evidence from Cortical Excision

Chapter X. Concluding Discussion

Chapter XI. Epilogue-The Learning of Languages

Bibliography

Case Index

General Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

Description based on print version record.

"The general conclusions embodied in this monograph were presented by Wilder Penfield in the Vanuxem lectures at Princeton University in February, 1956."

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-691-64263-X

1-4008-5467-9

OCLC:

899261270