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What the hands reveal about the brain
Howard Poizner

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What the hands reveal about the brain

MIT Press (1987)
#140
10005354
| Softcover
236 pages | USA | English
Dewey 153.6
LC Classification RC387.5 .P65 1987

Genre

  • Deaf Studies

Subject

  • Brain - Physiology
  • Brain Damage
  • Cerebral Dominance
  • Cerebrovascular Disease
  • Cerebrovascular Disorders - Physiopathology

Plot

‘What the Hands Reveal About the Brain’ provides dramatic evidence that language is not limited to hearing and speech and that there are primary linguistic systems passed down from one generation of deaf people to the next, which have been forged into antonomous languages and are not derived from spoken languages.

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Owner Deaf Heritage Centre
Location Book Shelf 5 Red
Quantity 1
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Added Date Jan 13, 2015 15:21:58
Modified Date Jun 13, 2017 12:41:36

Notes

‘What the Hands Reveal About the Brain’ provides dramatic evidence that language is not limited to hearing and speech and that there are primary linguistic systems passed down from one generation of deaf people to the next, which have been forged into antonomous languages and are not derived from spoken languages.