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Title:

The languages of the brain / edited by Albert M. Galaburda, Stephen M. Kosslyn, Yves Christen.

Publisher:

Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2002

Description:

x, 418 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Language acquisition.
Cognition.
Neurolinguistics.
Nonverbal Communication
Cognition--Physiology.--congresses.
Language--Congresses.
Brain--physiology.--congresses.
Concept formation.--Congresses.
Nonverbal Communication--psychology--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Galaburda, Albert M., 1948-
Kosslyn, Stephen Michael, 1948-
Christen, Yves.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Greation, art, and the brain / Jean-Pierre Changeux. SECTION 6. Representations in the world -- SECTION 1. Verbal processes -- Neuroanatomy of categories / Albert M. Galaburda -- Neurological organization of some language-processing constituents / Edgar Zurif -- Brain organization for syntactic processing / David Caplan, Nathaniel Alpert, Gloria Waters -- Spatial and temporal dynamics of phonological and semantic processes / Jean-François Démonet, Guillaume Thierry -- SECTION 2. Verbal content -- Can mental content explain behavior? / Pierre Jacob -- Deference and indexicality / François Recanati -- How is conceptual knowledge organized in the brain? Clues from category-specific deficits / Alfonso Caramazza -- Discourse structure, intentions, and intonation / Barbara J. Grosz -- SECTION 3. Verbal variants -- Second language learners and understanding the brain / Catherine E. Snow -- In praise of functional psychology / Franck Ramus, Jacques Mehler -- Verbal and nonberbal representations of numbers in the human brain / Stanislas Dehaene -- PART II. Nonverbal representation -- SECTION 4. Perception and language -- Visual and language area interactions during mental imagery / Bernard Mazoyer, Emmanuel Mellet, Nathalie Tzourio -- Can the human brain construct visual mental images from linguistic imputs? / Michel Denis -- Making area V1 glow in visual imagery / Denis Le Bihan, Isabelle Klein, Michiko Dohi -- Developing knowledge of space: core systems and new combinations / Elizabeth S. Spelke -- SECTION 5. Visual and motor represntations -- Einstein's mental images: the role of visual, spacial, and motoric representations / Stephen M. Kosslyn -- Spatial memory during navigation: what is being stored, maps or movements? / Alain Berthoz, Isabelle Viaud-Delmon, Simon Lambrey -- Naturalization of mental states and personal identity / Marc Jeannerod -- Using nonverbal representations of behavior: perceiving sexual orientation / Nalini Ambady, Mark Hallahan -- SECTION 6. Representations in the world -- Gap between seeing and drawing / Nigel Holmes -- Rethinking images and metaphors: new geometries as key to artistic and scientific revolutions / Rhonda Roland Shearer -- Elicting mental models through imagery / Gerald Zaltman -- Greation, art, and the brain / Jean-Pierre Changeux.

ISBN:

9780674007727 (alk. paper)
0674007727 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)49942945

LCCN:

2002069094

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UPAX334 -- Upper Iowa University - Henderson-Wilder Library (Fayette)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)