Title What the hands reveal about the brain / Howard Poizner, Edward S. Klima, and Ursula Bellugi

Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1995, ©1987

Click on the following:
EBSCO eBooks

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xvii, 236 pages) : illustrations Series MIT Press series on issues in the biology of language and cognition MIT Press series on issues in the biology of language and cognition. Contents Introduction / John C. Marshall -- Preliminaries: Language in a visual modality -- Neural substrate for language -- Signers with strokes: Left-hemisphere lesions -- language across left-lesioned signers -- Signers with strokes: right-hemisphere lesions -- Apraxia and sign aphasia -- Visuospatial nonlanguage capacity -- Spatialized syntax, spatial mapping, and modality -- Appendix: Notation Notes "A Bradford book." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-225) and index Notes Print version record Subject Brain damage. Sign language. Deaf -- Means of communication. Psycholinguistics. Brain -- Wounds and injuries. Cerebral dominance. Language and languages. Brain -- physiology Cerebrovascular Disorders -- physiopathology Dominance, Cerebral Language Manual Communication Space Perception -- physiology Brain Injuries Brain Damage, Chronic Sign Language Psycholinguistics psycholinguistics. languages (study discipline) language (general communication) LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Communication Studies. Language and languages Cerebral dominance Brain -- Wounds and injuries Brain damage Deaf -- Means of communication Psycholinguistics Sign language Form Electronic book ISBN 0585352488 9780585352480

  Permalink