Language, Thought, and the Brain

by Tatyana Glezerman (Editor), Victoria Balkoski (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306460968
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	10/31/1999
Series:	Cognition and Language: A Series in Psycholinguistics
Edition description:	2002
Pages:	331
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of 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.