Contents; Contributors; Introduction; I. Matters Anatomical; II. Matters Linguistic; III. Motor Aspects and Sign Language; IV. Psycholinguistic Investigations; V. Discussion; VI. Historical Articles: Choices We Made: An Introduction to the Historical Section; Author Index; Subject Index
Summary
Paul Broca, the discoverer of Broca's region, was one of the first scientists to equate a significant piece of behaviour articulated language with a piece of neural tissue. This volume creates a picture of the state of contemporary knowledge on the structure and function of the region and its implications for our understanding of the human brain
