- Title Pages
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 The Origin of Broca’s Area and Its Connections from an Ancestral Working Memory Network
- 2 A Multimodal Analysis of Structure and Function in Broca’s Region
- 3 Broca’s Area in the Human and the Nonhuman Primate Brain
- 4 Weak Syntax
- 5 Speech Production in Broca’s Agrammatic Aphasia: Syntactic Tree Pruning
- 6 A Blueprint for a Brain Map of Syntax
- 7 Evaluating Deficit Patterns of Broca Aphasics in the Presence of High Intersubject Variability
- 8 Treating Language Deficits in Broca’s Aphasia
- 9 Broca’s Region: A Speech Area?
- 10 Broca’s Area in System Perspective: Language in the Context of Action-Oriented Perception
- 11 The Role of Broca’s Area in Sign Language
- 12 Broca’s Area and Lexical-Semantic Processing
- 13 The Neural Basis of Sentence Processing: Inferior Frontal and Temporal Contributions
- 14 Involvement of the Left and Right Frontal Operculum in Speech and Nonspeech Perception and Production
- 15 On Broca, Brain, and Binding
- 16 A Role for Broca’s Area Beyond Language Processing: Evidence from Neuropsychology and fMRI
- V Discussion
- 17 Jölich Workshop Excerpts
- VI Historical Articles
- 18 Comments Regarding the Seat of the Faculty of Spoken Language, Followed by an Observation of Aphemia (Loss of Speech) (1861)
- 19 On Affections of Speech from Disease of the Brain (1878–1879)
- 20 On Aphasia (1885)
- 21 Contributions to a Histological Localization of the Cerebral Cortex. Communication: The Division of the Human Cortex (1908)
- 22 The Agrammatical Language Disturbance: Studies on a Psychological Basis for the Teaching on Aphasia (1913)
- 23 The Cytoarchitectonics of the Fields Constituting Broca’s Area (1931)
- 24 The Phonological Development of Child Language and Aphasia as a Linguistic Problem (1956)
- 25 Grammatical Complexity and Aphasic Speech (1958)
- 26 The Organization of Language and the Brain (1970)
- 27 Broca’s Area and Broca’s Aphasia (1976)
- Author Index
- Subject Index
On Affections of Speech from Disease of the Brain (1878–1879)
On Affections of Speech from Disease of the Brain (1878–1879)
- Chapter:
- (p.305) 19 On Affections of Speech from Disease of the Brain (1878–1879)
- Source:
- Broca's Region
- Author(s):
John Hughlings-Jackson
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter presents a paper by John Hughlings–Jackson, the British neurologist best known for his description of epileptic convulsions. Hughlings–Jackson wrote a series of papers in which he argued that language is not localizable in any specific area of the cerebral cortex. His writings on aphasia, published from the mid-1870s on, represent the first attack on the localizationist school from an antimodular point of view—one that views cognitive deficits as a domain-general “asymbolia”.
Keywords: Broca's region, John Hughlings–Jackson, neurologist, epileptic convulsions, aphasia
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- Title Pages
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 The Origin of Broca’s Area and Its Connections from an Ancestral Working Memory Network
- 2 A Multimodal Analysis of Structure and Function in Broca’s Region
- 3 Broca’s Area in the Human and the Nonhuman Primate Brain
- 4 Weak Syntax
- 5 Speech Production in Broca’s Agrammatic Aphasia: Syntactic Tree Pruning
- 6 A Blueprint for a Brain Map of Syntax
- 7 Evaluating Deficit Patterns of Broca Aphasics in the Presence of High Intersubject Variability
- 8 Treating Language Deficits in Broca’s Aphasia
- 9 Broca’s Region: A Speech Area?
- 10 Broca’s Area in System Perspective: Language in the Context of Action-Oriented Perception
- 11 The Role of Broca’s Area in Sign Language
- 12 Broca’s Area and Lexical-Semantic Processing
- 13 The Neural Basis of Sentence Processing: Inferior Frontal and Temporal Contributions
- 14 Involvement of the Left and Right Frontal Operculum in Speech and Nonspeech Perception and Production
- 15 On Broca, Brain, and Binding
- 16 A Role for Broca’s Area Beyond Language Processing: Evidence from Neuropsychology and fMRI
- V Discussion
- 17 Jölich Workshop Excerpts
- VI Historical Articles
- 18 Comments Regarding the Seat of the Faculty of Spoken Language, Followed by an Observation of Aphemia (Loss of Speech) (1861)
- 19 On Affections of Speech from Disease of the Brain (1878–1879)
- 20 On Aphasia (1885)
- 21 Contributions to a Histological Localization of the Cerebral Cortex. Communication: The Division of the Human Cortex (1908)
- 22 The Agrammatical Language Disturbance: Studies on a Psychological Basis for the Teaching on Aphasia (1913)
- 23 The Cytoarchitectonics of the Fields Constituting Broca’s Area (1931)
- 24 The Phonological Development of Child Language and Aphasia as a Linguistic Problem (1956)
- 25 Grammatical Complexity and Aphasic Speech (1958)
- 26 The Organization of Language and the Brain (1970)
- 27 Broca’s Area and Broca’s Aphasia (1976)
- Author Index
- Subject Index
