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Overview
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.
Synopsis
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.
Booknews
Glezerman and Balkoski (both Albany Medical College, New York) present a novel and comprehensive hypothesis about the relationship of human language and thought to specialization in the brain. Assembling data from a wide variety of modern and classical sources and multiple disciplines, they construct an original framework showing the relation between the information and tracing the historical connections and common origins of language codes and aspects of thinking with their phylogenetic roots. They take aphasia, language disorder due to local brain damage, as a detailed case study. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)