Obler, Loraine K. <br/><br/>
Language and the brain / 
Loraine K. Obler y Kris Gjerlow 
 - 1a 
 - Estados Unidos :  Cambridge University Press,  1999 
 - 206 p. :  diagramas,  12.8 x 19.6 cm 
<br/><br/> How do our brains enable us to speak creatively and build up an understanding of language? This concise and accesible book examines the linguistic and neuro-anatomical underpinnings of language. It considers how language skills can systematically break down in individuals with different types of brain damage, such as children with language disorders, adults with right-hemisphere brain damage, demented patients, and people with reading problems. In a wide-ranging discussion, the authors cover brain damage on bilingual people as well as the reading and writing difficulties experienced by dyslexics and dysgraphics. Information is also provided on "split-brain" patients, visual-gestural languages and language savants. By studying the linguistics behaviour of these groupings the authors provide and understanding of how language is organised in the brain. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0-521-46641-5 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Biolingüística<br/>Trastornos del lenguaje<br/>Daño cerebral
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>P132  / O2