Concise Encyclopedia of Brain and Language

✍ Scribed by Harry A. Whitaker

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 633
• Series: Concise Encyclopedias of Language and Linguistics
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume descibes, in up-to-date terminology and authoritative interpretation, the field of neurolinguistics, the science concerned with the neural mechanisms underlying the comprehension, production and abstract knowledge of spoken, signed or written language. An edited anthology of 165 articles from the award-winning Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd edition, Encyclopedia of Neuroscience 4th Edition and Encyclopedia of the Neorological Sciences and Neurological Disorders, it provides the most comprehensive one-volume reference solution for scientists working with language and the brain ever published.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 10
Subject Classification......Page 16
Introduction......Page 20
Contributors......Page 22
List Of Abbreviations......Page 26
A......Page 32
B......Page 108
C......Page 136
D......Page 180
E......Page 222
F......Page 236
H......Page 252
I......Page 262
L......Page 290
M......Page 348
N......Page 398
R......Page 468
S......Page 486
T......Page 532
V......Page 554
W......Page 564
Index......Page 590

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Психолингвистика;Нейролингвистика;Энциклопедии