Speech And Brain Mechanisms

Author : Wilder Penfield,Lamar Roberts
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781400854677

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Speech and Brain Mechanisms by Wilder Penfield,Lamar Roberts Pdf

The outcome of ten years' work, this book is a carefully planned study of brain dominance, aphasia, and other speech disturbances, and includes a discussion of the cerebral mechanisms of speech and the learning and teaching of language. Originally published in 1959. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Wilder Penfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0691023662

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Speech and Brain by Wilder Penfield Pdf

Author : Clark Harold Millikan,Frederic L. Darley
Publisher : W.B. Saunders Company
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015028204348

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Brain Mechanisms Underlying Speech and Language by Clark Harold Millikan,Frederic L. Darley Pdf

Author : Frank H. Guenther
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262336994

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Neural Control of Speech by Frank H. Guenther Pdf

A comprehensive and unified account of the neural computations underlying speech production, offering a theoretical framework bridging the behavioral and the neurological literatures. In this book, Frank Guenther offers a comprehensive, unified account of the neural computations underlying speech production, with an emphasis on speech motor control rather than linguistic content. Guenther focuses on the brain mechanisms responsible for commanding the musculature of the vocal tract to produce articulations that result in an acoustic signal conveying a desired string of syllables. Guenther provides neuroanatomical and neurophysiological descriptions of the primary brain structures involved in speech production, looking particularly at the cerebral cortex and its interactions with the cerebellum and basal ganglia, using basic concepts of control theory (accompanied by nontechnical explanations) to explore the computations performed by these brain regions. Guenther offers a detailed theoretical framework to account for a broad range of both behavioral and neurological data on the production of speech. He discusses such topics as the goals of the neural controller of speech; neural mechanisms involved in producing both short and long utterances; and disorders of the speech system, including apraxia of speech and stuttering. Offering a bridge between the neurological and behavioral literatures on speech production, the book will be a valuable resource for researchers in both fields.

Author : Peter J. Shull
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0203911067

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Nondestructive Evaluation by Peter J. Shull Pdf

Describing NDE issues associated with real-world applications, this comprehensive book details conventional and forthcoming NDE technologies. It instructs on current practices, common techniques and equipment applications, and the potentials and limitations of current NDE methods. Each chapter details a different method, providing an overview, an e

Author : Doreen Kimura
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1993-05-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780195345292

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Neuromotor Mechanisms in Human Communication by Doreen Kimura Pdf

This monograph is based on 20 years of research with patients who have experienced pathology in one hemisphere of the brain. It deals with brain mechanisms in human communicative behavior, and with related motor functions, from a broadly biological point of view. In so doing, the work discusses the possible evolutionary origins of human communication, the relation of brain mechanisms in communicative behavior to analogous nonhuman behaviors, and the neural systems involved in various levels and kinds of communication. In addition, noncommunicative mechanisms which parallel those used in communication--such as manual and oral praxis, and constructional behavior-- are outlined in detail. Individual differences in brain organization for such functions, related to hand preference and sex, are also explored. Although there is extensive reference to central nervous system pathology, the emphasis throughout is on how the findings contribute to understanding normal brain mechanisms. Much new data is presented along with the theoretical treatment of human communication which emphasizes a behavioral rather than a linguistic approach. This in turn provides continuity with nonhuman primates and early hominids. The work will interest psycholinguists, cognitive psychologists, neurologists, clinical neuropsychologists, speech pathologists, and advanced students in these fields.

Author : National Academy of Sciences,Institute of Medicine,Sandra Ackerman
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309045292

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Discovering the Brain by National Academy of Sciences,Institute of Medicine,Sandra Ackerman Pdf

The brain ... There is no other part of the human anatomy that is so intriguing. How does it develop and function and why does it sometimes, tragically, degenerate? The answers are complex. In Discovering the Brain, science writer Sandra Ackerman cuts through the complexity to bring this vital topic to the public. The 1990s were declared the "Decade of the Brain" by former President Bush, and the neuroscience community responded with a host of new investigations and conferences. Discovering the Brain is based on the Institute of Medicine conference, Decade of the Brain: Frontiers in Neuroscience and Brain Research. Discovering the Brain is a "field guide" to the brainâ€"an easy-to-read discussion of the brain's physical structure and where functions such as language and music appreciation lie. Ackerman examines: How electrical and chemical signals are conveyed in the brain. The mechanisms by which we see, hear, think, and pay attentionâ€"and how a "gut feeling" actually originates in the brain. Learning and memory retention, including parallels to computer memory and what they might tell us about our own mental capacity. Development of the brain throughout the life span, with a look at the aging brain. Ackerman provides an enlightening chapter on the connection between the brain's physical condition and various mental disorders and notes what progress can realistically be made toward the prevention and treatment of stroke and other ailments. Finally, she explores the potential for major advances during the "Decade of the Brain," with a look at medical imaging techniquesâ€"what various technologies can and cannot tell usâ€"and how the public and private sectors can contribute to continued advances in neuroscience. This highly readable volume will provide the public and policymakersâ€"and many scientists as wellâ€"with a helpful guide to understanding the many discoveries that are sure to be announced throughout the "Decade of the Brain."

Author : Maria Mody
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781493973255

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Neural Mechanisms of Language by Maria Mody Pdf

This important volume brings together significant findings on the neural bases of spoken language –its processing, use, and organization, including its phylogenetic roots. Employing a potent mix of conceptual and neuroimaging-based approaches, contributors delve deeply into specialized structures of the speech system, locating sensory and cognitive mechanisms involved in listening and comprehension, grasping meanings and storing memories. The novel perspectives revise familiar models by tracing linguistic interactions within and between neural systems, homing in on the brain’s semantic network, exploring the neuroscience behind bilingualism and multilingual fluency, and even making a compelling case for a more nuanced participation of the motor system in speech. From these advances, readers have a more three-dimensional picture of the brain—its functional epicenters, its connections, and the whole—as the seat of language in both wellness and disorders. Included in the topics: · The interaction between storage and computation in morphosyntactic processing. · The role of language in structure-dependent cognition. · Multisensory integration in speech processing: neural mechanisms of cross-modal after-effect. · A neurocognitive view of the bilingual brain. · Causal modeling: methods and their application to speech and language. · A word in the hand: the gestural origins of language. Neural Mechanisms of Language presents a sophisticated mix of detail and creative approaches to understanding brain structure and function, giving neuropsychologists, cognitive neuroscientists, developmental psychologists, cognitive psychologists, and speech/language pathologists new windows onto the research shaping their respective fields.

Author : David Michael Singleton,Zsolt Lengyel
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 185359301X

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The Age Factor in Second Language Acquisition by David Michael Singleton,Zsolt Lengyel Pdf

This book takes a hard look at some of the assumptions that are customarily made concerning the role of age in second language acquisition. The evidence and arguments the contributors present run counter to the notion that an early start in second language learning is of itself either absolutely sufficient or necessary for the attainment of native-like mastery of a second language. Another theme of the book is a doubt that there is a particular stage of maturity beyond which language learning is no longer fully possible. In short, the book presents a challenge to those who take it as given that second language learning is inevitably different in its essential nature from language acquisition in the childhood years and that second language knowledge acquired beyond the critical period is in all circumstances and in all respects doomed to fossilize at a non-native-like level.

Author : Harry Whitaker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461575818

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Phonological Processes and Brain Mechanisms by Harry Whitaker Pdf

Phonological Processes and Brain Mechanisms reviews selective neurolinguistic research relating brain structures to phonology. The studies in the volume report on a number of timely and important topics, such as a neuronal model for processing segmental phonology, the role of the thalamus and basal ganglia in language processing, and oral reading in dyslexia. Increasingly, phonology is considered a cognitive module whose brain correlates may be independently investigated. Given the modular nature of the phonological system and its direct linkage with peripheral components of the nervous system, research on phonology and the brain will undoubtedly flourish in the future. The chapters in this volume give substance to this future.

Author : William Elder
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230861750

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Aphasia and the Cerebral Speech Mechanism by William Elder Pdf

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...of visual aphasia, it will be necessary to consider briefly the bearing of what we have already learned with regard to the visual receptive tract on the production of disturbances in speech due to lesion in that tract. We have already found--I. That each retina is bilaterally represented in the hemispheres; that the visual perceptive centres for the left half of the left retina and the left half of the right retina are situated in the left hemisphere; and the visual perceptive centres for the right half of the right retina and the right half of the left retina are situated in the right hemisphere. 2. That the visual perceptive centres are situated in the occipital lobes in the cortical region on the internal surface of these lobes in the neighbourhood of the calcarine fissure. The centres for colour, although not exactly in the same region, are close to it. The lingual lobule and the cuneus may be taken as including the visual centres. 3. That the course of the optic tract from the anterior quadrigeminal body to these visual centres is in the radiations of Gratiolet. 4. That these visual perceptive centres are probably connected with each other by commissural fibres, seeing that both halves of each retina require to act together. These fibres probably pass in the posterior part of the corpus callosum from one hemisphere to the other, but they have not definitely been made out. 5. That there has been specialised a centre for the perception of written words, which, like the other speech centres, is situated in the left hemisphere only, in the angular gyrus and posterior part of the supra-marginal convolution. It will be seen why it is necessary to have such a centre when one considers that the ordinary visual centres in all probability, ..

Author : Harry Whitaker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1461575826

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Phonological Processes and Brain Mechanisms by Harry Whitaker Pdf

Author : Michael A. Arbib
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781139458139

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Action to Language via the Mirror Neuron System by Michael A. Arbib Pdf

In this book, internationally recognised experts from child development, computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, primatology and robotics discuss the role of the mirror neuron system for the recognition of hand actions and the evolutionary basis for the brain mechanisms that support language.

Author : William Elder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Aphasia
ISBN : OCLC:1320866566

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Aphasia and the Cerebral Speech Mechanism by William Elder Pdf

Author : Mariusz Maruszewski
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110819410

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Language Communication and the Brain by Mariusz Maruszewski Pdf