Language, Thought, and the Brain [Paperback]

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.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.Part I: Introduction to The Problem And Approach. 1: Basic Factors in the Human Brain's Differentiation Underlying Cerebral Organization of Language Ability. 1.1. Background. 1.2. Bernstein's Model of Hierarchica1 Cerebral Organization of Movements. 1.3. Cytoarchitectural View. 1.4. Functional Asymmetry of the Brain, Intrahemispheric Specialization and Function Level. 1.5. Summary. Part II: Cerebral Organization of Language And Thought. 2: Temporal-Occipital Region: Visual Object Perception, Thought and Word. 2.1. Delineation of Anatomical Region. 2.2. Neurobehavioral Correlates: Visual Object Gnosis Connected with the Temporal-Occipital Region. 2.3. Left Temporal-Occipital Region: Multilevel Visual Object Processing, Categorical Classification, and Logical Grammatical Language Code. 2.4. Right Temporal-Occipital Region: Visual Object Perception, and Visual Symbolic Thinking. 2.5. Cerebral Organization of Word Meaning. 2.6. Anomic Aphasia: What Is It? -Visual Anomia and Lexical Logico-Grammatical Aphasia. 3: Temporal Region and `Sound-Articul#