Broca's region [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Yosef Grodzinsky, Katrin Amunts

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910792250503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006
• ISBN: 0-19-803952-2; 1-280-84505-8; 1-4294-3871-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (436 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): GrodzinskyYosef; AmuntsKatrin
• Disciplina: 612.8/2336
• Soggetti: Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics; Frontal lobes; Sign language; Aphasia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Contributors; Introduction; I. Matters Anatomical; 1. The Origin of Broca's Area and Its Connections from an Ancestral Working Memory Network ; 2. A Multimodal Analysis of Structure and Function in Broca's Region ; 3. Broca's Area in the Human and the Nonhuman Primate Brain ; II. Matters Linguistic; 4. Weak Syntax; 5. Speech Production in Broca's Agrammatic Aphasia: Syntactic Tree Pruning; 6. A Blueprint for a Brain Map of Syntax; 7. Evaluating Deficit Patterns of Broca's Aphasics in the Presence of High Intersubject Variability; 8. Treating Language Deficits in Broca's Aphasia; III. Motor Aspects and Sign Language9. Broca's Region: A Speech Area?; 10. Broca's Area in System Perspective: Language in the Context of Action-Oriented Perception ; 11. The Role of Broca's Area in Sign Language ; IV. Psycholinguistic Investigations; 12. Broca's Area and Lexical-Semantic Processing; 13. The Neural Basis of Sentence Processing: Inferior Frontal and Temporal Contributions; 14. Involvement of the Left and Right Frontal Operculum in Speech and ; Nonspeech Perception and Production ; 15. On Broca, Brain, and Binding; 16. A Role for Broca's Area Beyond Language Processing: Evidence from Neuropsychology and fMRIV. Discussion; 17. Jülich Workshop Excerpts; VI. Historical Articles: Choices We Made: An Introduction to the Historical Section; 18. Comments Regarding the Seat of the Faculty of Spoken Language, Followed by an Observation of Aphemia (Loss of Speech) (1861); 19. On Affections of Speech from Disease of the Brain (1878-1879); 20. On Aphasia (1885); 21. Contributions to a Histological Localization of the Cerebral Cortex-VI. Communication: The Division of the Human Cortex (1908); 22. The Agrammatical Language Disturbance: Studies on a Psychological Basis for the Teaching on Aphasia (1913)23. The Cytoarchitectonics of the Fields Constituting Broca's Area (1931); 24. The Phonological Development of Child Language and Aphasia as a Linguistic Problem (1956); 25. Grammatical Complexity and Aphasic Speech (1958); 26. The Organization of Language and the Brain (1970); 27. Broca's Area and Broca's Aphasia (1976); Author Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; WY
• Sommario/riassunto: Introduction. Part 1: Matters Anatomical. 1. The Origin of Broca's Area and Its Connections from an Ancestral Working-Memory Network, Francisco Aboitiz, Ricardo Garcia, Enzo Brunetti, and Conrado Bosman2. A Multimodal Analysis of Structure and Function in Broca's region, Katrin Amunts and Karl Zilles3. Broca's Area in the Human and the Non-human Primate Brain, Michael PetridesPart 2: Matters Linguistic. 4. Weak Syntax, Sergey Avrutin5. Speech Production in Broca's Agrammatic Aphasia: Syntactic Tree Pruning, Na'ama Friedmann6. A Blueprint for a Brain Map of Syntax, Yosef Grodzinsky7. Evaluating