What the hands reveal about the brain /
What the Hands Reveal About the Brain provides dramatic evidence that language is not limited to hearing and speech, that there are primary linguistic systems passed down from one generation of deaf people to the next, which have been forged into antonomous languages and are not derived front spoken...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
1995, ©1987
Cambridge, Mass. : [1987] Cambridge, Mass. : c1987 |
| Series: | MIT Press series on issues in the biology of language and cognition
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / John C. Marshall
- Preliminaries: Language in a visual modality
- Neural substrate for language
- Signers with strokes: Left-hemisphere lesions
- language across left-lesioned signers
- Signers with strokes: right-hemisphere lesions
- Apraxia and sign aphasia
- Visuospatial nonlanguage capacity
- Spatialized syntax, spatial mapping, and modality
- Appendix: Notation