Princeton Legacy Library

Wilder Penfield, Lamar Roberts

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781400854677
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Medical Theory, Practice & Reference

The outcome of ten years' work, this book is a carefully planned study of brain dominance, aphasia, and other speech disturbances, and includes a discussion of the cerebral mechanisms of speech and the learning and teaching of language.Originally published in 1959.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Preface
• Vanuxem Lecturers
• Preamble To The Vanuxem Lectures (W.P)
• I. Introduction (W.P.)
• II. Functional Organization of The Human Brain, Discriminative Sensation, Voluntary Movement (W.P.)
• III. The Recording of Consciousness and The Function of Interpretive Cortex (W.P.)
• IV. Analysis of Literature (L.R.)
• V. Methode of Investingation
• VI. Methods of Investigation (L.R.)
• VII. Mapping The Speech Area (W.P.)
• VIII. The Evidence From Cortical Mapping (L.R.)
• IX. The Evidence From Cortical Excision (L.R.)
• X. Concluding Discussion (W.P.)
• XI. Epilogue_The Learning of Languages (W.P.)
• Bibliography (L.R.)
• Case Index (A.V .)
• General Index (A.D.)