What the hands reveal about the brain

What the hands reveal about the brain / Howard Poizner, Edward S. Klima, and Ursula Bellugi.

What the Hands Reveal About the Brain provides dramatic evidence that language is not limited to hearing and speech, that there are primary linguistic systems passed down from one generation of deaf people to the next, which have been forged into antonomous languages and are not derived front spoken...

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Main Authors: Poizner, Howard (Author), Klima, Edward S., 1931-2008 (Author), Bellugi, Ursula, 1931-2022 (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1987]
Series:MIT Press series on issues in the biology of language and cognition.
Subjects:
Brain damage.
Deaf people > Means of communication.
Psycholinguistics.
Sign language.
Cerebral dominance.
Language and languages.
Brain > Diseases.
Nonverbal communication.
Blood-vessels > Diseases.
Communication.
Psychophysiology.
Visual perception.
Central nervous system.
Perception.
Human behavior.
Human information processing.
Central nervous system > Diseases.
Nervous system.
Cardiovascular system > Diseases.
Therapeutics.
Nervous system > Diseases.
Anatomy.
Diseases.
Space perception.
Brain.
Brain > Wounds and injuries.
Rehabilitation.
Medical rehabilitation.
Cerebrovascular disease.
Brain > Congestion.
Misinformation.
psycholinguistics.
visual perception.
human behavior.
anatomy.
space perception.
brains.
languages (study discipline)
language (general communication)
illness.
disease.
pardons.
treating (health care function)
Visual perception
Therapeutics
Space perception
Rehabilitation
Psychophysiology
Perception
Nonverbal communication
Nervous system > Diseases
Nervous system
Medical rehabilitation
Language and languages
Human information processing
Human behavior
Diseases
Communication
Cerebrovascular disease
Cerebral dominance
Central nervous system > Diseases
Central nervous system
Cardiovascular system > Diseases
Brain > Wounds and injuries
Brain > Diseases
Brain > Congestion
Brain
Blood-vessels > Diseases
Anatomy
Brain damage
Deaf > Means of communication
Psycholinguistics
Sign language
Biolinguistik
Lateralität
Neurolinguistik
Sprache
Zeichensprache
Hirnschädigung
Taalpsychologie.
Gebarentaal.
Cerebrovasculaire stoornissen.
Taalpathologie.
Cerveau > Maladies.
Langage par signes.
Sourds > Communication.
Psycholinguistique.
Langage et langues > Aspect physiologique.
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Summary:What the Hands Reveal About the Brain provides dramatic evidence that language is not limited to hearing and speech, that there are primary linguistic systems passed down from one generation of deaf people to the next, which have been forged into antonomous languages and are not derived front spoken languages.
Item Description:"A Bradford book."
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvii, 236 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-225) and index.
ISBN:9780262281720
0262281724
0585352488
9780585352480
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/7206.001.0001
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Description based on print version record.

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