1. A short history of neurolinguistics
- Author
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Veno Volenec
- Subjects
neurolinguistics ,history of neurolinguistics ,aphasia ,language and the brain ,Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages ,PG1-9665 - Abstract
The article deals with the historical development of the field of neurolinguistics. It provides a chronological survey of inquiry into the relationship between the language faculty and the human nervous system, beginning with the first such investigations in ancient Egypt and ancient Greece. Up to the nineteenth century, most records were single case descriptions of the effects of brain lesions on the language faculty, and the most notable of these are presented in this paper. Some influential attempts were made in the nineteenth century to localize the language faculty in the brain, such as those of Franz J. Gall, Paul Broca, and Carl Wernicke. The twentieth century saw an explosion in the number of theories and experimental methods for investigating the relationship between language and the nervous system, along with the birth of neurolinguistics in the strict sense as an interdisciplinary field of scientific inquiry borne from linguistics and neuroscience in the 1960s.
- Published
- 2015