Studies in Neurolinguistics, Volume 3

presents detailed case histories, multi-subject experimental studies, literature reviews, and research papers that employ a variety of experimental and observational techniques.

This volume contains seven chapters that focus on a wide range of research in the field of neurolinguistics.

Chapter 1

discusses the various approaches to the problem of auditory comprehension in aphasia.

Chapter 2

A survey of the world's literature on bilingualism and aphasia is provided in chapter 2.

Chapter 3

examines the different models and explanations for conduction aphasia.

Chapter 4

provides a synthesis of the anatomic, physiologic, and behavioral research on the role of the limbic system in human communication.

Chapter 5

presents a model of individual differences in hemispheric functioning, in which a number of theories about the left and right hemispheres are analyzed and compared.

Chapter 6

shows how different levels of language are revealed.

Chapter 7

addresses The Question of Electrophysiological Asymmetries Preceding Speech in a study of the readiness potentials over the motor and premotor regions in eight subjects.

Linguists, psychologists, and neurologists will find the book highly informative.