Speech and Brain Mechanisms /

Speech and Brain Mechanisms / / Lamar Roberts, Wilder Penfield.

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 u...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
VerfasserIn:
Penfield, Wilder,
Roberts, Lamar,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1959
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 62
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Physical Description:1 online resource (302 p.)
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Table of 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

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