Language Functions and Brain Organization.

Sidney J. Segalowitz [editor]

ISBN 10: 0126356408 / ISBN 13: 9780126356403

Published by Academic Press, New York and Etc, 1983

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Red cloth hardcover. Pp xvii, 375. A square, tight, clean copy. An ex university library copy with usual attachments but all contents bright and clean and this is a very sound example. {Heavy book - will incur and extra shipping charge if leaving the UK].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Language Functions and Brain Organization.
• Publisher: Academic Press, New York and Etc
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0126356408
• ISBN 13: 9780126356403
• Binding: Cloth Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Language Functions and Brain Organization explores the question of how language is represented in the human brain. The discussions are organized around the following themes: whether language is a mental organ or a mental complex; the brain base for language; the requirements of a developmental theory of lateralization; and whether brain lateralization is a single construct. Comprised of 15 chapters, this volume begins with an assessment of the semantic and syntactic aspects of aphasic deficits and how these components can be selectively disrupted by focal brain damage, followed by a review of evidence for hemispheric asymmetries in processing phonological information. The reader is then introduced to pragmatic aspects of communication; the right hemisphere's contribution to language; and right-left asymmetries in the cerebral cortex and their implications for functional asymmetries. Subsequent chapters focus on left-hemisphere language specialization from the perspective of motor and perceptual functions; evidence for hemisphere asymmetry for language functioning in the thalamus; some difficulties in building a brain theory for visual experience; speech lateralization in infancy; and the relationship between cerebral functional asymmetries, maturation rate, and cognitive skills through the mediation of sex chromosomes. The book also considers language dysfunction in dementia and its connection to brain functioning, along with the variations produced in cases of bilingualism and the factors that may be critical for this issue. This monograph is addressed to researchers and students of the neuropsychology of language, whether they call themselves psychologists, neuropsychologists, neurologists, or linguists.