Language, Thought, and the Brain

• Main Authors: Glezerman, Tatyana B. (Author), Balkoski, Victoria I. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Series: Cognition and Language: A Series in Psycholinguistics
• Subjects: Psychology.; Neurosciences.; Neurology.; Psycholinguistics.; Cognitive psychology.; Psychology, general.; Cognitive Psychology.

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 cl...

Table of Contents:

• to the Problem and Approach
• Basic Factors in the Human Brain’s Differentiation Underlying Cerebral Organization of Language Ability
• Cerebral Organization of Language and Thought
• Temporal-Occipital Region: Visual Object Perception, Thought and Word
• Temporal Region and “Sound-Articulate” Speech
• Parietal-Occipital Region: Spatial Perception and Word Form
• Frontal Region: Thought and Sentence
• Conclusions, Reflections, Perspectives
• Thought and Focal Brain Damage
• Perspectives for Psychiatry.