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| 1 | Introduction | 3 |
| Communication in the great apes | 4 | |
| Communication in early hominids | 8 | |
| Methods in studying the neurology of language | 10 | |
| The present investigation | 13 | |
| 2 | Asymmetry | 20 |
| Neural asymmetry in birds | 20 | |
| Asymmetry in nonhuman mammals | 21 | |
| The nature of human brain asymmetry | 23 | |
| Mechanisms of brain asymmetry | 24 | |
| Somatic asymmetry in humans | 26 | |
| 3 | Noncortical Systems in Speaking | 28 |
| Lower motor systems in speaking | 28 | |
| Thalamus and basal ganglia systems | 31 | |
| Cerebellum | 40 | |
| 4 | Cortical Systems in Speaking | 42 |
| Evidence from stimulation | 45 | |
| Evidence from ablations and lesions | 50 | |
| Comparison of anterior and posterior aphasic groups | 55 | |
| Subdivisions within the posterior region | 60 | |
| 5 | Oral Movement Control and Speech | 64 |
| Reproduction of oral movements | 65 | |
| Speeded articulation tasks | 67 | |
| Correlations between speech and nonspeech tasks | 69 | |
| Relations among oral and manual tasks | 73 | |
| Comparison of temporal and parietal contributions | 74 | |
| 6 | Manual Praxis | 79 |
| Characteristics of manual apraxia | 80 | |
| Motor systems in praxic control | 82 | |
| Methods of assessment | 89 | |
| The nature of praxic control mechanisms | 91 | |
| Types of apraxia | 100 | |
| 7 | Constructional Ability | 103 |
| Spontaneous drawing | 104 | |
| WAIS constructional tasks | 107 | |
| Relation to manual apraxia | 110 | |
| Relation to visuoperceptual disorders | 112 | |
| 8 | Manual Sign Language | 115 |
| Neural mechanisms in arm and hand control | 118 | |
| Manual sign language "aphasia" | 121 | |
| Neuroanatomic mechanisms in signing | 125 | |
| 9 | Adextrality | 128 |
| The present sample | 128 | |
| Speech representation | 129 | |
| Manual praxic function in adextrals | 132 | |
| Subgroups of adextrals | 133 | |
| Oral praxic function in adextrals | 135 | |
| Implications for theories of left-handedness | 136 | |
| 10 | Sex Differences in Brain Organization | 139 |
| Neuroanatomic sex differences | 139 | |
| Background of studies in humans | 140 | |
| Lateralization of constructional and spatial ability | 141 | |
| Intrahemispheric organization | 145 | |
| Functional significance of intrahemispheric organization | 157 | |
| 11 | Hemispheric Specialization for Semantic Processing | 160 |
| Neural mechanisms in reading | 160 | |
| Semantic categorization in aphasia | 163 | |
| Conclusion | 174 | |
| References | 177 | |
| Author Index | 191 | |
| Subject Index | 195 |
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Dorothiea Gandolfo
reviewed Neuromotor Mechanisms in Human Communication on February 02, 2012
Neuromotor Mechanisms in Human Communication
Marking this as 'read' as I've read all of the chapters which are most relevant to my on-going PhD research (which is most of the book!), and will no doubt return to it again.
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