Book ID: CBB001213879

Paul Broca and the Origins of Language in the Brain (2012)

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LaPointe, Leonard L. (Author)


Plural Publishing, Inc.


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: xiii + 358 pp.; ill.
Language: English

Pierre Paul Broca was a child prodigy. He fulfilled his promise by becoming a brilliant neurologist, surgeon, and anthropologist. Perhaps his most lasting contribution to neuroscience was his proposal that the third frontal convolution of the left cerebral hemisphere of the brain is the seat of that most human attribute, the production of articulate speech and language. This notion was advanced by detailing the autopsy findings, with quite evident and circumscribed lesions, in the brains of his two now famous cases, Leborgne (known as Tan, for that is all he could say) and Lelong. Broca s presentations were milestones in the history of the neuroscience of language and the brain, but they were only more defined echoes of ideas that had preceded him. Undergraduate and graduate students as well as practicing professionals and clinicians in psychology, neurolinguistics, cognitive psychology, communication science and disorders, neurology, neurosurgery, neuropsychiatry, nursing and health-related professions, and philosophy of science will be interested in this book. It is different from others like it in that it presents aspects of the personal lives of these French brains who sparked the notion of a place in the brain for human language. It embraces a more empathic and humanistic approach to understanding people and their disorders as well as to what may drive the process of science and patients as specimens.

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Review Buckingham, Hugh (2014) Review of "Paul Broca and the Origins of Language in the Brain". Journal of the History of the Neurosciences (pp. 95-101). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Leblanc, Richard
Domanski, Cezary W.
Sonja Boos
Liao, S. Matthew
Hlade, Josef
Andrea Moro
Concepts
Neurosciences
Brain
Brain localization
Psychology
Neuroanatomy
Language and languages
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
Places
Germany
United States
France
Australia
Great Britain
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