Language, Thought, and the Brain

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction to the Problem and Approach

   1. Basic Factors in the Human Brain’s Differentiation Underlying Cerebral Organization of Language Ability

      Pages 3-25

3. Cerebral Organization of Language and Thought

   1. Temporal-Occipital Region: Visual Object Perception, Thought and Word

      Pages 29-76

   2. Temporal Region and “Sound-Articulate” Speech

      Pages 77-113

   3. Parietal-Occipital Region: Spatial Perception and Word Form

      Pages 115-151

   4. Frontal Region: Thought and Sentence

      Pages 153-230

4. Conclusions, Reflections, Perspectives

   1. Thought and Focal Brain Damage

      Pages 233-245

   2. Perspectives for Psychiatry

      Pages 247-283

5. Back Matter

   Pages 285-331

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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.

• Action
• Emotion
• Perception
• Thought
• language
• psychiatry

• Albany Medical College, Albany

  Tatyana B. Glezerman, Victoria I. Balkoski

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