Reviews for Neuromotor Mechanisms in Human Communication

The average rating for Neuromotor Mechanisms in Human Communication based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-10-27 00:00:00 William Melchior This book is really above my level. It's very scientific. I read it because I'm supposed to be writing a paper about the origin of language. I like how Kimura questions the validity of these two assumptions: The critical role of the left hemisphere in communication is based on a specialization for linguistic/semantic function. and Language behavior is organized quite separately from nonlanguage behaviors in the brain. Because a lot of the time when I'm reading what some smartypants thinks about language, I find that she or he has made some dubious assumptions. There isn't really any consensus on what language is. Does it make any sense to talk about the origin of linguistic function if we don't even know if or how that function is distinct from other stuff that the brain does? Kimura argues pretty convincingly that the left hemisphere is specialized, not for language per se, but for complex oral and manual(!) motor programming functions which are essential to human language systems.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-02-02 00:00:00 Dorothiea Gandolfo 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.