The Marc Dax (1770-1837)/Paul Broca (1824-1880) controversy over priority in science: Left hemisphere specificity for seat of articulate language and for lesions that cause aphemia

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 20, Issue 7-8, 2006, Pages 613-619

  Buckingham, Hugh W ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Broca's aphasia; Cerebral dominance; French medicine; Law of symmetry; Loss of speech; Priority in science

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CORTEX; CONFERENCE PAPER; FRONTAL LOBE; HISTORY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SPEECH ARTICULATION;

APHASIA, BROCA; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FRANCE; FRONTAL LOBE; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; NEUROSCIENCES;

EID: 33750312829     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: 14645076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699200500266703     Document Type: Conference Paper

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