Language is a universal human capacity and serves as the primary means by which all social and interpersonal interactions are realized.
Keywords: anomia; aphasia; cerebral dominance; dyslexia; language
Language
Arthur Wingfield, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
Harold Goodglass, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0000151
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Figure 1. Lateral
view of the perisylvian language zone in the left hemisphere.
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Figure 2. Transverse
section of the brain showing Broca's and Wernicke's areas.
Approximate level of slice is indicated in Figure
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| Further Reading | |
| book Caplan D (1992) Language: Structure, Processing and Disorders. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. | |
| Damasio H, Grabowski TJ, Tranel D, Hichwa RD and Damasio AR (1996) A neural basis for lexical retrieval. Nature 380: 499–505. | |
| book Goodglass H (1993) Understanding Aphasia. San Diego, California: Academic Press. | |
| book Goodglass H and Wingfield A (eds) (1997) Anomia: Neuroanatomical and Cognitive Correlates. San Diego, California: Academic Press. | |
| Martin A, Wiggs CL, Ungerleider LG and Haxby JV (1996) Neural correlates of category-specific knowledge. Nature 379: 649–651. | |
| Meier RP (1991) Language acquisition by deaf children. American Scientist 79: 60–70. | |
| book Pinker S (1994) The Language Instinct. New York: William Morrow. | |
