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A short history of neurolinguistics

Veno Volenec orcid.org/0000-0002-4589-877X

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.

Keywords

neurolinguistics; history of neurolinguistics; aphasia; language and the brain

Hrčak ID:

150114

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/150114

Publication date:

29.12.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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