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Neuromotor Mechanisms in Human Communication

Doreen Kimura

$398 AUD

ISBN:
9780195054927
Published:
6 May 1993
Availability:
Print on demand

This book deals with brain mechanisms in human communicative behavior and with related motor functions from a broadly biological point of view.

1: Introduction
2: Asymmetry
3: Noncortical Systems in Speaking
4: Cortical Systems in Speaking
5: Oral Movement Control and Speech
6: Manual Praxis
7: Constructional Ability
8: Manual Sign Language
9: Adextrality
10: Sex Differences in Brain Organization
11: Hemispheric Specialization for Semantic Processing

Doreen Kimura , Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, Canada

"Kimura is to be commended for recruiting a variety of converging data to address this controversial question."--Contemporary Psychology

"Kimura is to be commended for recruiting a variety of converging data to address this controversial question."--Contemporary Psychology