Language, Thought, and the Brain

Description

Drawing on a wide variety of modern and classical sources and multiple disciplines, this book presents hypothesizes about the relationship between human language and thought to brain specialization. The authors focus on aphasia-language disorder resulting from local brain damage and show that the clinical aspect represents not only loss of function of the damaged area, but also results from the interaction between damaged and intact areas of the brain. Basic Factors in the Human Brain’s Differentiation Underlying Cerebral Organization of Language Ability....Pages 3-25 Temporal-Occipital Region: Visual Object Perception, Thought and Word....Pages 29-76 Temporal Region and “Sound-Articulate” Speech....Pages 77-113 Parietal-Occipital Region: Spatial Perception and Word Form....Pages 115-151 Frontal Region: Thought and Sentence....Pages 153-230 Thought and Focal Brain Damage....Pages 233-245 Perspectives for Psychiatry....Pages 247-283