Authors: Howard Poizner, Edward Klima, Ursula Bellugi
Publisher: The MIT Press
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Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.6

ISBN: 0262660660
Dewey Decimal Number: 153.6
EAN: 9780262660662
ASIN: 0262660660

Publication Date: March 14, 1990
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Product Description
What the Hands Reveal About the Brain provides dramatic evidence that language is not limited to hearing and speech, 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 front spoken languages.

All three authors are associated with the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego. Howard Poizner is Staff Scientist at the Institute's Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Studies. Edward S. Klima is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego, and Adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute. Ursula Bellugi is Professor at the Salk Institute and Director of the Institute's Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Studies. Klima and Bellugi are the authors of The Signs of Language.

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What the hands reveal about the brain November 29, 2007
Considering how difficult it must be to study how the different areas of the human brain are used to process language and more specifically sign language I think the authors did an admirable job. I would have preferred a full-page drawing of the human brain showing by location which aspect of sign language seemed to specialize for which area. Since this was the goal of the research it would have made it clearer to follow the author's conclusions. I came away with a renewed sense of wonder for the marvelous resilliancy and redundancy of the human brain that even after something so devestating as a stroke for some people other areas of the brain eventually adapted and retrained itself to take over jobs that it would not normally do. If you want to learn sign language and exactly how it works this is not the book for you. This book excells in a rather narrow, but fascinating field.