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Gradients of the brain

Gradients of the brain Editorial For centuries, the apparent symmetry of the hemispheres imaging, we now witness the return of the question of the of the brain stimulated speculations about the duality of left–right gradient to the debate of the origins and mind or gradients of function in the planes of the three lateralization of the language faculty in healthy brains. dimensions: front-to-back (Gall, Broca), left-to-right (Dax) The modern use of largely non-invasive methods of and top-to-bottom (Jackson). Front-to-back has lost its functional brain imaging in healthy volunteers has confirmed appeal and top-to-bottom is canonical (albeit still that language is a more fundamental faculty than speech, contentious), leaving left-to-right as the currently hot topic a faculty possessed even by the speechless. The brain in the arena of human frontier science. regions involved in language perception and generation Legend has it that Gall chose the frontal (supraorbital) appear to be more numerous than is taught conventionally, part of the brain as the seat of the language instinct and to include centres in cerebellum, primary and association because certain verbose students of his acquaintance had auditory cortices, Broca’s area, striate cortex, and primary protruding eyes. If true, the legend proves that the wildest and supplementary http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Brain Oxford University Press

Gradients of the brain

Gjedde, Albert
Brain , Volume 122 (11) – Nov 1, 1999
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Oxford University Press
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Copyright 1999
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0006-8950
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10.1093/brain/122.11.2013
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Editorial For centuries, the apparent symmetry of the hemispheres imaging, we now witness the return of the question of the of the brain stimulated speculations about the duality of left–right gradient to the debate of the origins and mind or gradients of function in the planes of the three lateralization of the language faculty in healthy brains. dimensions: front-to-back (Gall, Broca), left-to-right (Dax) The modern use of largely non-invasive methods of and top-to-bottom (Jackson). Front-to-back has lost its functional brain imaging in healthy volunteers has confirmed appeal and top-to-bottom is canonical (albeit still that language is a more fundamental faculty than speech, contentious), leaving left-to-right as the currently hot topic a faculty possessed even by the speechless. The brain in the arena of human frontier science. regions involved in language perception and generation Legend has it that Gall chose the frontal (supraorbital) appear to be more numerous than is taught conventionally, part of the brain as the seat of the language instinct and to include centres in cerebellum, primary and association because certain verbose students of his acquaintance had auditory cortices, Broca’s area, striate cortex, and primary protruding eyes. If true, the legend proves that the wildest and supplementary

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Published: Nov 1, 1999

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