Language Functions and Brain Organization

✍ Scribed by S. J. Segalowitz

Publisher: Elsevier Inc, Academic Press
Year: 1983
Tongue: English
Leaves: 380
Series: Perspectives in neurolinguistics, neuropsychology, and psycholinguistics
Edition: 1ST
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Inside Front Cover, Page ii
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Contributors, Pages xi-xiii
Preface, Pages xv-xvii
Introduction to Language as a Mental Organ or a Mental Complex, Pages 1-4
CHAPTER 1 - Language Functions: Syntax and Semantics, Pages 5-28, Rita Sloan Berndt, Alfonso Caramazza, Edgar Zurif
CHAPTER 2 - Hemisphere Processing of Phonological Information, Pages 29-49, Victoria J. Molfese, Dennis L. Molfese, Carl Parsons
CHAPTER 3 - Pragmatic Aspects of Communication in Brain-Damaged Patients, Pages 51-86, Nancy S. Foldi, Michael Cicone, Howard Gardner
CHAPTER 4 - The Right Hemisphere's Contribution to Language: A Review of the Evidence from Brain-Damaged Subjects, Pages 87-113, Janice M. Millar, Harry A. Whitaker
Introduction to What Should Be the Brain Base for Language?, Pages 115-116
CHAPTER 5 - Bumps on the Brain: Right–Left Anatomic Asymmetry as a Key to Functional Lateralization, Pages 117-144, Sandra F. Witelson
CHAPTER 6 - Motor and Perceptual Functions of the Left Hemisphere and Their Interaction, Pages 145-170, Catherine A. Mateer
CHAPTER 7 - Thalamic Mechanisms in Language and Memory, Pages 171-191, Catherine A. Mateer, George A. Ojemann
CHAPTER 8 - The Placement of Experience in the Brain, Pages 193-214, Robert M. Anderson Jr., Demetria C.Q. Leong
Introduction to On the Requirements of a Developmental Theory of Lateralization, Pages 215-220
CHAPTER 9 - Cerebral Asymmetries for Speech in Infancy, Pages 221-229, Sidney J. Segalowitz
CHAPTER 10 - Hemispheric Specialization and Integration in Child Development, Pages 231-244, Jaan Valsiner
CHAPTER 11 - Relationships among Brain Organization, Maturation Rate, and the Development of Verbal and Nonverbal Ability, Pages 245-266, C. Netley, Joanne Rovet
CHAPTER 12 - Language and Brain Dysfunction in Dementia, Pages 267-282, Loraine K. Obler
Introduction to Is Brain Lateralization a Single Construct?, Pages 283-286
CHAPTER 13 - Cerebral Specialization in Deaf Individuals, Pages 287-313, Phyllis Ross
CHAPTER 14 - Bilingualism and Brain Lateralization, Pages 315-339, Jyotsna Vaid
CHAPTER 15 - Individual Differences in Hemispheric Representation of Language, Pages 341-372, Sidney J. Segalowitz, M.P. Bryden
Index, Pages 373-375
PERSPECTIVES IN NEUROLINGUISTICS, NEUROPSYCHOLOGY, AND PSYCHOLINGUISTICS, Pages ibc1-ibc2

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