Bibliothèque de L'IMIST/CNRST

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Part 1 : Control of limb and speech movements. Characteristics of speech as a motor control system / Vincent L. Gracco ; Control of human jaw and multi-joint arm movements ; J. Randall Flanagan, David J. Ostry and Anatol G. Feldman ; Manual performance asymmetries / Geoffrey R. Hammond ; The development of hemispheric and manual specialization / Gerard Young ; Disorders of motor function following cortical lessons : review and theoretical considerations / Gregor W. Jason ; Complex movement behavior : toward understanding cortical and subcortical interactions in regulating control processes / Kathleen York Haaland and Deborah L. Harrington -- Part 2 : Language and gesture. Speech and gesture / David McNeill, Elena T. Levy and Laura L. Pedelty ; Gestures and speech : evidence from aphasia / Guila Glosser and Morton Wiener ; The concomitance of speech and manual gesture in asphasic subjects / Pierre Feyereisen ... [and others] ; Language and motor disorders in deaf signers / Howard Poizner ; Relations between verbal and gestural explanations / John Annett -- Part 3 : Motor performance and aphasia. Motoric characteristics of adult aphasic and apraxic speakers / Malcolm R. McNeil and Raymond D. Kent ; Hemispheric control of articulatory speech output in aphasia / Giuseppe Vallar ; The relationship between pantomime expression and recognition in aphasia : the search for causes / Robert J. Duffy and Joseph R. Duffy ; The dissociation of aphasia from apraxia of speech, ideomotor limb and buccofacial apraxia / Paula A. Square-Storer ; The assessment of limb apraxia : the limb apraxia test / Joseph R. Duffy and Robert J. Duffy -- Part 4 : Interactions of speech and manual performance. Interaction of vocal and manual movements / Michael Peters ; Comparative investigations of speech and other neuromotor systems / Anne Smith and Howard Zelaznik ; Development of sensorimotor capacities relavent to speech and concurrent task performance / Gerald Turkewitz, Lisa Ecklund-Flores and Darlynne A. Devenny ; Is time sharing asymmetry a valid indicator of speech lateralization? : evidence for left handers / Merrill Hiscock, Marcel Kinsbourne and Adele Green ; Asymmetric manual interference as an indicator of lateralized brain function / Joseph B. Hellige and Daniel W. Kee ; Temporal constraints on concurrent task performance / Jeffrey J. Summers.

Discussed in this book is the association between speech and movements, especially those of the preferred hand. Both are skilled motor activities that appear to depend upon a similar neural organization that is available in the left hemisphere of the brain. The nature of this association of the cerebral control of speech and skilled manual performance is discussed in four sections: 1. Motor control and speech examines speech as a motor activity; 2. Language and gesture examines the correspondence between spoken language and manual gesture; 3. Motor performance and aphasia examines the motor impairments associated with aphasias; 4. Interactions of speech and manual performance examines the interactions that occur between concurrent verbal and manual activities.

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