Speech and Brain Mechanisms (eBook)

Wilder Penfield, Lamar Roberts (Autoren)

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2014 | 1. Auflage
302 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5467-7 (ISBN)

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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.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie
• Schlagworte: Abdominal reflex • Action potential • Adjective • agraphia • Angiography • Anomic aphasia • Anosmia • Aphasia • Apraxia • Apraxia of Speech • Audiometry • Auditory agnosia • auditory cortex • auditory system • Auditory verbal agnosia • Automatic behavior • babbling • brain • brain damage • Brainstem • Broca's area • Caudate nucleus • cerebral cortex • Cerebral Hemisphere • Cingulate cortex • Conduction aphasia • Consciousness • Consonant • copying • Corticospinal tract • Cranial nerve nucleus • Craniotomy • Dysarthria • dysgraphia • edema • expressive aphasia • Focal neurologic signs • Ganglion cell • General anaesthesia • Hemianopsia • Hemiparesis • Hemispherectomy • Henry Head • Human Brain • Hypoesthesia • insular cortex • intellectual disability • Intracranial pressure • larynx • Lateralization of brain function • lesion • Mesencephalon • Motor Cortex • Motor nerve • Multilingualism • muscle tone • Neuroanatomy • Neurodegeneration • Neurological examination • Neurology • Neuron • Neurophysiology • neurosurgery • On Aphasia • Palate • paraphasia • Paresis • parietal lobe • perseveration • Phrenology • Pneumoencephalography • Primary sensory areas • Pronunciation • Pseudobulbar palsy • Receptive aphasia • Sensory cortex • Sensory loss • Sensory phenomena • Speech • speech disorder • speech-language pathology • Speech organ • Spoken Language • Stimulation • stroke • stuttering • Sulcus (neuroanatomy) • Supplementary motor area • Surgery • Symptom • temporal lobe • Thalamus • utterance • Vascular occlusion • Visual Field • Visual memory • Visual system • vocabulary • vowel • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-5467-9 / 1400854679
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-5467-7 / 9781400854677