E-Book, Englisch, 302 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
Penfield / Roberts Speech and Brain Mechanisms
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5467-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 302 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5467-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
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.
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FrontMatter, pg. i
Preface, pg. vii
Vanuxem Lecturers at Princeton University, pg. ix
Preamble to the Vanuxem Lectures, pg. x
Contents, pg. xi
Chapter I. Introduction, pg. 1
Chapter II. Functional Organization of the Human Brain, Discriminative Sensation, Voluntary Movement, pg. 12
Chapter III. The Recording of Consciousness and the Function of Interpretive Cortex, pg. 38
Chapter IV. Analysis of Literature, pg. 56
Chapter V. Methods of Investigation, pg. 82
Chapter VI. Handedness and Cerebral Dominance, pg. 89
Chapter VII. Mapping the Speech Area, pg. 103
Chapter VIII. The Evidence from Cortical Mapping, pg. 119
Chapter IX. The Evidence from Cortical Excision, pg. 138
Chapter X. Concluding Discussion, pg. 192
Chapter XI. Epilogue—The Learning of Languages, pg. 235
Bibliography, pg. 259
Case Index, pg. 281
General Index, pg. 283
